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Strange battery

The last couple of days I've noticed something strange with my battery. I keep it on the charger all night and when I get up in the morning my phone says the battery is at 100% and the charge LED is green. The instant I pull my phone off the charger it drops a couple percent. I thought that was strange so this morning instead of pulling the phone off I just shut it down. Once the phone was completely off the LED went from Green to Orange as if it was charging again. It look another 20 minutes to turn green again. I powered the phone up and as soon as sense is loaded I am back to 93% battery.
Anyone else see this? I've wiped battery stats and did the whole calibration but that didn't seem to fix the issue.

That is normal... Once the batt hits 100%, the charger goes off and lets it drop to 95% or so and starts charging again. It does this to protect the battery. Also when you turn off, it will restart the charge.

The battery is lying, but that's not such a bad thing.

Check this out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871051

My battery has been acting up the last few days as well. As in, going from a full charge to ~35% in 3 hours and then down to ~12% an hour later. No new apps added, nothing out of the ordinary done. Regular uses and charging cycle. I normally reset my battery stats when I flash a new incarnation of a new ROM, but after a couple of days everything seems to be back to normal.
I've been baffled by this, but have yet to find the culprit. An app or searching for signal are my only thoughts.

qman66 said:
Check this out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871051
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This makes perfect sense, thank you for the link!

From AWESOME to TERRIBLE overnight

Well, this was interesting... Since day 1, I have had great battery life and have not experienced what everyone else has been experiencing.. An occassional lock-up/reboot, but nothing major.
A couple of weeks ago, I switched to a backup battery (andida). Things have been going well w/ that battery. Yesterday, I updated cwm.. While the andida battery was out, I decided to switch back to the stock battery for a while. Then, the following items took place all within a few hours of use, which I have not experienced.. ever before:
- Battery temp running high.. Andida constantly hanging around 22.2 - 23.2. Stock was hitting around 43 until i rebooted the phone, then dropped to 40. It is currently running at 36.
- 2 shutdowns. I could not boot the phone past the LG logo after the shutdown. Was able to boot into CWM though > went to shutdown > tried to boot, same thing. Had to pull the battery in order for it to boot.
- Received a phone call, answered, but the phone kept ringing during the entire phone conversation.
- 2 screen lockups. Could slide the unlock, get the haptic feedback, but that was it. It would not unlock. Had to reboot.
- 1 black screen of death? Total black screen with the task bar displayed. Was able to go into settings, pull down the task bar, etc. Background was blacked out. Reboot, fixed.
- Can not get gps. Was driving for 5min trying to get a GPS lock, nothing. Opened up GPS test and not a single satellite showed up in the list.
- Finally... and worst of all. Last night I plug in the phone for a couple of hours. As I'm going to bed, I disconnect the usb from it.. and take a glance to see where it charged to - 100%. I go to bed at around 1:30am. I wake up at 7:30a, turn on the screen of the phone, and it gives low battery warning. It's at 2%. I reboot the phone to make sure. It's at 1%.
So idk.. maybe something was stuck running. I'll find out here shortly after this charge is done.. but I am seeing a major difference in the operation of the phone after putting the stock battery back in. I had not experienced this when I was running the stock battery in the past. (I had an occasional lockup/reboot.. but not to this scale.. and I had always had fantastic battery life. Every single time I unplugged before bed and had 100%, I would have 98% when I woke up).
Suggestions? Changes were updating to the new CWM 4 and putting the stock battery back in. Running Bionix RC1..which I have been running for a while. I'll let this sucker charge up and see what it does. Maybe I should wipe the batt stats?

yeah wipe the batt stats. possibly try cm7 its really stable now. i know it doesnt have the a2dp but every else works. i would say another kernel also faux's or morific work fine. use setcpu if your going to oc. if you choose to flash another i would do a complete wipe of everything then install so hopefully the problems wont pop back up in the new flash. i read in one of the thread that if your battery is dated 3/2011 it will have issues but the 4/2011 or whatever will have less reboot and freezes issues may wanna try getting a replacement if you wanna stick with bionix until krylon does an update.

The andida battery doesn't have a temp sensor, so it's worthless for testing temperatures.

well, idk.. who knows what the crap happened. I charged to 79% and unplugged. 2.5hrs later, I'm still at 72%. That's around 3% an hr. Last night was 17%/hr.. Something happened last night.. Man, I'd love to know what took place.
Either I had an app going wild all night, or the battery really never charged.. and the 100% was deceptive. It's just nuts how all of these probs all of a sudden surfaced right after cwm 4 and putting the stock battery back in. They never surfaced b4 on the same ROM and with the same battery that I used for weeks and weeks.
O'well....

schmit said:
well, idk.. who knows what the crap happened. I charged to 79% and unplugged. 2.5hrs later, I'm still at 72%. That's around 3% an hr. Last night was 17%/hr.. Something happened last night.. Man, I'd love to know what took place.
Either I had an app going wild all night, or the battery really never charged.. and the 100% was deceptive. It's just nuts how all of these probs all of a sudden surfaced right after cwm 4 and putting the stock battery back in. They never surfaced b4 on the same ROM and with the same battery that I used for weeks and weeks.
O'well....
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I know, it is just weird but it does happens from timr to time.
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When the battery is less than when it removed,After some time and putting it back will be full power display
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You should wipe battery stats when doing any major rom change (stock to custom or between different roms).
Battery will always be wonky the first time before a full charge/discharge on the rom unless it is 100% and battery stats are wiped.
Typically what I do (on CM7), is when I wake up the phone is at 100%. I download the latest nightly while I'm in the shower. Jump out, it starts to flash. When its done and booted up, I wipe stats then unplug the phone and go to work.
I don't always wipe stats. But with all of the battery tweaks and fixes he's done, I will occasionally.

I very rarely ever completely turn my phone off, but last night I decided to turn it off right before I went to sleep. My battery was down to 25% right before I turned it off. When I woke up this morning the phone would not turn on. So I decided to plug it into the wall charger to see if it would help. Well the phone did turn on after I plugged it in and to my surprise the battery was showing as 0% charged which is why it wouldn't turn on without being plugged in.
So, that means that something drained my battery from 25% to 0% while the phone was completely turned off. What in the world would be running while the phone is turned off that would drain the battery like that?

Sensation LED blinking but phone not turning on

My phone turned on with my friends battery but when I insert my battery the phone only blinks a red led and won't turn on. It happened shortly after installing bricked kernel and 4ext recovery
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adiallo77 said:
My phone turned on with my friends battery but when I insert my battery the phone only blinks a red led and won't turn on. It happened shortly after installing bricked kernel and 4ext recovery
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Hi,
That would suggest that your battery is flat.
Why don't you plug the charger in for half an hour ,then try booting again.

Yeah like above said your battery is dead, as soon as the light stays solid it means you can start your phone. Depending on how badly its drained itll take like 15 mins while being plugged into AC. This usually happens to me while playing a game and i dont notice the low battery lol

exactly the same thing happened to me just now...
Strange thing thou was that the phone was connected to the charger all night long and I just removed it from the charger
Charging right now... lets wait a bit
-update
Charger seems to have died in action.....
what was your outcome adiallo77 ?
-update 2
Charger started to work fine again ...
I'm confused now

I had the same problems when I first install cwrecovery, after a night in the charger it was working fine again

I just started having this problem with my phone. The battery is not charging at all, my phone won't turn on, but the red light is blinking. I have been reading and trying all day everything I could find in xda, but still no results. I can't remember which ROM I installed last, but it has stock kernel, ICS probably virtuous.

This usually happens when your battery has drained completely.
Here's what you need to do. Put your phone on an hour long charge before trying anything.
Don't put the phone for charge on the PC or in the car, but use the standard wall charger that was provided with the phone. Whatever happens, don't pull the phone off charging.
After an hour of charging is completed, switch on your phone as you normally would, without unplugging the charger. Your phone should be fine.
Let it charge to 100%, calibrate your battery and perform a restart to maintain the right graduation for battery levels.

kgs1992 said:
This usually happens when your battery has drained completely.
Here's what you need to do. Put your phone on an hour long charge before trying anything.
Don't put the phone for charge on the PC or in the car, but use the standard wall charger that was provided with the phone. Whatever happens, don't pull the phone off charging.
After an hour of charging is completed, switch on your phone as you normally would, without unplugging the charger. Your phone should be fine.
Let it charge to 100%, calibrate your battery and perform a restart to maintain the right graduation for battery levels.
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i left it yesterday the whole night plugged-in, did it again this afternoon, and still nothing happens, only the blinking orange led

pacotort said:
i left it yesterday the whole night plugged-in, did it again this afternoon, and still nothing happens, only the blinking orange led
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Have you tried a different battery?
Have you checked if the battery fits tightly?
EDIT: Too many of these recently. We need to find the source!

kgs1992 said:
Have you tried a different battery?
Have you checked if the battery fits tightly?
EDIT: Too many of these recently. We need to find the source!
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i don't have an extra battery but the one i have does fit. I'm gonna see if i can find me another battery borrowed.

Does the orange light continue to blink after a few minutes? I had this problem a while ago but the light would blink for about a minute and then stop, then the battery wouldn't charge and my phone wouldn't turn on.
What I ended up doing was putting my battery into my Desire HD and charging it for 15 min (aligning the pins and just holding the battery down since its too big to fit in the HD and letting it charge) and then I put it back into my sensation and it would pick up charge.
I would suggest getting an external charger and letting the charger bring your battery up to 5-10 percent then putting it back into the sensation and try to charge it/see if your phone will turn on.

The same thing has just happend to my gf's sensation XE, she left it on all night charging, now it wont turn on, tried everything. Its all stock since day one. might have to send it back, her last HTC phone broke too (wildfire), Any tricks to try and get it to turn on?
The lights come on at the bottom keys, but no display ?

[Q] Battery issue (I think?)

So, my tablet fully died today, 0% battery on tablet and dock, and now when I plug in the tablet the screen comes on and off showing the battery with one red bar, is this normal and if not what should I do?

CorkedA said:
So, my tablet fully died today, 0% battery on tablet and dock, and now when I plug in the tablet the screen comes on and off showing the battery with one red bar, is this normal and if not what should I do?
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Perfectly normal. It means that the tablet doesn't have enough power to boot up yet, give it ten minutes to get at least 15%. It should boot up automatically after that,

LOL. I've made the mistake of letting mine run all the way down twice. The 1st time it scared the tar out of me and I thought I was going to have to send it back to Asus because it wouldn't come back on after I plugged it in LOL. After letting it charge for about 15 minutes it booted right up. It did the same thing the 2nd time I ran it all the way down too. Even though I know it will boot back up after sitting on the charger for a little bit, I still watch my battery level very closely now. It's a bad feeling when I press the power button and nothing happens!!

Has anyone else experienced very short battery life after the last update? Used to be that if I didn't use my tablet for a week it would only lose like 10% now it goes to 0 in 2 days even if it isn't touched. Only started after the last update. I'm thinking I should do a factory reset just to see if that settles things out.
Or does anyone know of any good battery monitors that can tell you what was sucking all the juice before is died?

Nexus 5 gets extremely hot after charging overnight

Last night I charged my new nexus 5 with the charger my wife always uses with her galaxy s3. I noticed the charging icon turned on (lightning symbol) before putting the phone under the pillow.
I woke up this morning realizing the phone is extremely hot and it seemed like it hadn't been charged at all.
I charged the nexus 5 again with its original charger and everything wad just fine.
Anyone has this problem before? Will the extreme heat damage the phone or the battery at all?
Thank you

Please don't put your phone under your pillow.

osnapitsjoey said:
Please don't put your phone under your pillow.
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Absolutly... and do not use other wall chargers I would say. Especially if you haven't tested it with your phone yet.
But... that still sounds strange imo, it obviously should be hot while charging under a pillow, but why would it be discharged and still hot way after the normal end of the charging ? I'm thinking of a black screen of death i'm afraid..
Happened in the past with my optimus 2x until i got a kernel which fixes it.
And so, exactly the same situation was happening sometime before the fix ; put on charge during the night and in the morning, got a very hot powered off phone with an empty battery despite beeing still pluged...
Just my 2 cents

Mynix said:
Absolutly... and do not use other wall chargers I would say. Especially if you haven't tested it with your phone yet.
But... that still sounds strange imo, it obviously should be hot while charging under a pillow, but why would it be discharged and still hot way after the normal end of the charging ? I'm thinking of a black screen of death i'm afraid..
Happened in the past with my optimus 2x until i got a kernel which fixes it.
And so, exactly the same situation was happening sometime before the fix ; put on charge during the night and in the morning, got a very hot powered off phone with an empty battery despite beeing still pluged...
Just my 2 cents
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It was probably searching for a signal all night... and heat kills batteries.

Hahaha mine doesn't do that
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My galaxy s2 used to get extremely hot when charging under a pillow. Don't do it.

lafester said:
and heat kills batteries.
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heat will definitely destroy the overall capacity of the battery

just put in water itll cool it off....