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is my phone or battery broken?

This is my second captivate that I got to replace my other one. The other one had amazing battery life and now that I have the new one, it" sucks".
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Yes definitely broken, burn it

Right. Someone who owns half a brain please respond.
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Guy, how about some details? Your sig says gti900 so your not on stock. How can any one help you with what you posted. Are you using the exact same configuration that you had on your last phone?
oh.... You hurt my feelings by the way

Same setup, actually with out the iverclock too. Im running phoenix now percison.
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You are killing me
When did you flash
Have you calibrated your battery
Are you using the same kernel, modem
what have you tried to improve battery
How long does your phone last on full charge
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mcord11758 said:
You are killing me
When did you flash
Have you calibrated your battery
Are you using the same kernel, modem
what have you tried to improve battery
How long does your phone last on full charge
Some details
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Yes. Same everything. Tried calibrating battery. Everything that drains is off. Is it a faulty unit?
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There its always a chance
If your phone last 8-10 hrs then no you can improve by playing around. If it last like 5 hrs and you have calibrated and have gone through a couple bat cycles then maybe there is an issue.
Chances are, you need to play around

mcord11758 said:
There its always a chance
If your phone last 8-10 hrs then no you can improve by playing around. If it last like 5 hrs and you have calibrated and have gone through a couple bat cycles then maybe there is an issue.
Chances are, you need to play around
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I know, im working on it, but I don't think it will do anythong
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Battery life.

Sorry to post another thread, but I'm just curious...
My battery life sucks I can barely make it through the school day without my batter dieing. So anyone got any suggestions that I could do to get better battery life?
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Shut it off. Your at school.
If your flashing roms just make sure you charge to 100 percent and clear battery stats in recovery/advanced.
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Well I listen yo it during school. And I'm not flash happy.
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Who the hell called you flash happy. A thank you will do.
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Sorry bro. Do you get good battery life? What does wiping batt stats do?

afoley said:
Who the hell called you flash happy. A thank you will do.
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uh what. stop being an asshole. you didn't help with anything.
OP, battery life depends on a lot of things. Go to settings>phone info>battery usage and it might give you an idea of what is using your battery. Maybe you just need to turn down the brightness on the display, or turn off some things like Bluetooth or GPS.
Wiping battery stats will simply delete a file that caches some things about the battery. Sometimes when flashing different roms and themes the stats can get messed up and they need to be wiped.
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I have GPS and wifi turned off and my brightness is always at 25 or 0% and thanks for the backup haha and your help.
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Wiping Battery Stats Pointless

https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
From Google

I saw that post too, last night.
So, when wiping battery stats, that file is deleted, and that's all that happens? Or do you know?

Wipping battery stats is pointless, but recalibrating it is what you needa do. Always Charge to 100% Before Flashing a Rom. There's a couple Calibration apps on the Market. But the Rom I use has a Auto Calibrates.
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It's not pointless if you want an accurate read on what's been using the battery on that cycle.
For everyone that posts a picture of the screen "what's been using your battery" with the percentages listed under the graph, this is what you wipe your battery stats to make accurate.
Wiping battery stats is pointless? no...but if you expect it to do more then it does you're asking too much.

AgentCherryColla said:
Wipping battery stats is pointless, but recalibrating it is what you needa do. Always Charge to 100% Before Flashing a Rom. There's a couple Calibration apps on the Market. But the Rom I use has a Auto Calibrates.
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they just delete the batterystats.bin

Blue6IX said:
It's not pointless if you want an accurate read on what's been using the battery on that cycle.
For everyone that posts a picture of the screen "what's been using your battery" with the percentages listed under the graph, this is what you wipe your battery stats to make accurate.
Wiping battery stats is pointless? no...but if you expect it to do more then it does you're asking too much.
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What he said.
Wow, that thread on G+ has grown, and the idiot to expert ratio is getting out of control. Hopefully your post here will, ah, un-idiot some people...
Jeff
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[Guide] Calibrating Battery {Rooted devices}

*I had this posted over in the nexus forums and decided to move it over here for you guys to see now that I have this device as well*
I found a guide somewhere on the internet on the best way to calibrate battery stats on a rooted device (to fix incorrect battery reporting after flashing) when I had my old hero and I use it a lot to this day when flashing new roms/kernels so I decided to share the best way to do it here.
Step 1.
First and foremost charge the phone to 100%(Even if it says 100% wait about 5 minutes or so just be sure.)
Step 2.
Once it is at 100% go into data/system using your preferred explorer and delete the batterystats.bin file there.
Step 3.
Unplug the charger and reboot to recovery, wipe cache and dalvik cache and wipe battery stats once more while you're there just to make sure they're gone.
Step 4.
Power the phone down and plug it back in. Charge it to 100% while it's off (the battery bar can be deceiving so even once it shows it's full give it five more minutes or so to be sure) and then power up.
Once it is booted to the OS you should now see that the battery bar is at 100%. If not start back at step 1.
Final step.
It had come to my attention that this phone does not have a smart battery so fully discharging it is not a good idea. However I would recommend discharging it to below 20% before recharging. Thanks to hechoen for the info straight from Samsung.
After that you should have a fully calibrated battery and see correct battery stats.
Everybody enjoy! If this helped you please hit thanks!
*Thanks to whoever it was that wrote this up in the first place. If I knew who it was I would give proper thanks.
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https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1443108

eollie said:
https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1443108
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I could care less what that dude says. I know for a fact my battery reporting has gone funky before during flashing and calibrating it fixed it. For instance, it would say 92% and after a reboot it would change to like 94%.
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I just realized that this would be a non-issue if you're using any roms that get installed using AROMA since the /data partition gets formatted with ext4, it'll also wipe the batterystats.bin file, assuming you didn't do a data backup/restore.

FBis251 said:
I just realized that this would be a non-issue if you're using any roms that get installed using AROMA since the /data partition gets formatted with ext4, it'll also wipe the batterystats.bin file, assuming you didn't do a data backup/restore.
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Ahh. I was unaware of that. Thanks for the info man.
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Its actually not good on these batteries to drain them fully. If your battery readings start going crazy, such as losing 20% charge after a simple reboot, one simple wipe of the battery stats should fix that.
The whole process of charging fully before wiping, draining, recharging fully ect... isn't necessary.
I simply wipe stats once (at whatever my current charge is) and go on my way.
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Joshhayes801 said:
I could care less what that dude says. I know for a fact my battery reporting has gone funky before during flashing and calibrating it fixed it. For instance, it would say 92% and after a reboot it would change to like 94%.
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Read through the comments there is some good info. Also this "dude" has boobs so Im sure SHE would rather be called dudette. One more thing, shes also one of the lead programmers on the Android Project.

eollie said:
Read through the comments there is some good info. Also this "dude" has boobs so Im sure SHE would rather be called dudette. One more thing, shes also one of the lead programmers on the Android Project.
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Word
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Just got off the phone with Samsung to find out whether or not this battery has a fuel gauge chip and it does not. I've assumed for a long time that it was a smart battery and I was wrong. So fully discharging is a bad idea as there is no chip to reset. As far as resetting the battery stats it won't have an effect on life but may correct reporting errors. I personally used to wipe it and then stopped. I have noticed no difference either way.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

hechoen said:
Just got off the phone with Samsung to find out whether or not this battery has a fuel gauge chip and it does not. I've assumed for a long time that it was a smart battery and I was wrong. So fully discharging is a bad idea as there is no chip to reset. As far as resetting the battery stats it won't have an effect on life but may correct reporting errors. I personally used to wipe it and then stopped. I have noticed no difference either way.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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Very useful information. Thank you. I will edit the op to reflect this information.
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Joshhayes801 said:
I could care less what that dude says. I know for a fact my battery reporting has gone funky before during flashing and calibrating it fixed it. For instance, it would say 92% and after a reboot it would change to like 94%.
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well, you should at least read a lot to get knowledge about how stuff works... and you obviously did not or you wouldn't call dudette a dude...
unless you have your own custom OS you just fogot step 8 - dance with rain stick around phone when it's charging...

FBis251 said:
I just realized that this would be a non-issue if you're using any roms that get installed using AROMA since the /data partition gets formatted with ext4, it'll also wipe the batterystats.bin file, assuming you didn't do a data backup/restore.
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I flashed Unnamed with Aroma, full wipe(s) no back ups and i'm having an issue sometimes when I reboot with between 60% - 90% I only have 10% - 20% once rebooted. So I would have to say that does not completely hold true even though it does make perfect sense.
So the "calibration" ritual may not actually calibrate the battery but it definitely is useful when having these issues.
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Heres the deal doing this DOESNT improve battery life. All it does is get rid of "gremlins" in the file.
Better battery stats (that you can get here on xda) will do this for you each time you plug the phone in.

Isn't it a bad thing to completely discharge lithium ion batteries?

NekoNyapii said:
Isn't it a bad thing to completely discharge lithium ion batteries?
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Short answer yes. Detailed answer see post #9.

NekoNyapii said:
Isn't it a bad thing to completely discharge lithium ion batteries?
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Yes it is. I was unaware of this before but hechoen brought it to my attention and now the op states that you should not fully discharge.
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Ridiculous battery drainage

I recently switched to hyperdrive ROM again, and the battery drain is absolutely ridiculous.. I watched 4% drain as I was making this post. I have included screenshots of battery stats, can someone tell me what's up? One thing to note is that it may be my charger, because I bent the metal part that goes in my phone a while ago. Should that affect the battery life? I just wanted to make sure it wasn't something to do with my setup before going out to buy a new charger.
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I see cray drains when I flash a new rom too. A charge, a complete discharge, maybe twice and it goes back to normal. When was the last time you did that?

Same it usually takes a couple of days for me to see real battery life in a ROM. I'd test it out for a day or 2 and see if you have any improvements
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Looking for an update from OP. C'mon!
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do you calabrate your battery after switching roms?

That's been debunked but you can akways try.
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What kernal are you running? Depending on the governor, I got really bad battery life with 4glte . Its kind of trial and error though.

Let the ROM stabilize for a while.