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Im trying to recalibrate my batter because of terrible battery life. After letting it die and charging it while its on I had no issues getting it to 100%. I powered down the phone to charge it while it was off and it seems like its hanging at the last percent and wont go to 100. I have had it plugged in for a few hours now and its still showing the same charge but wont fill up the last little bit of the meter. Anyone have any ideas? Im really thinking about tossing the battery and getting a new one. It seems like i got a bad one. no matter what I do i can only get about 12 hours of light use. I work 10-12 hour days so I have to constantly worry about my phone dying everyday I work.
I had the same issues. Tried every battery trick I found on the forums, but nothing worked. I went to ATT, they sent me a new battery and it everything's good now
So try talking to ATT and getting a stock OEM battery before you buy one
I picked this up and it gives a lot of peace of mind: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004206TQ8/ref=oss_product
Dngen. Are you getting greater battery life now that your using a different battery? I'm convinced the first batch of batteries and phones were bad.
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Im also interested in that response
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Smallsmx3 said:
Dngen. Are you getting greater battery life now that your using a different battery? I'm convinced the first batch of batteries and phones were bad.
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At first I thought it was the phones that vary in battery life.
My first captivate had really good battery life. But it bricked after I tried to do the JH7 update. So I got the phone exchanged, but they used my original battery in the new captivate. For some reason my phone was draining really fast compared to my old captivate, and this was weird because both used the same battery.
This was really annoying me cause I loved this phone, but the poor battery life was ruining it for me. So I went to an AT&T store and told them how bad my battery life was. They shipped an OEM battery for free and I've found a new battery to significantly work better than the old one
Hmmm. I just got a replacement phone and everything works better...GPS ect... but the battery was the same as it is now.....10-12 hours. I've been thinking about getting another battery but I don't know if that will fix the problem. I guess I will try to anyway.
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Hmmm. I just got a replacement phone and everything works better...GPS ect... but the battery was the same as it is now.....10-12 hours. I've been thinking about getting another battery but I don't know if that will fix the problem. I guess I will try to anyway.
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How long have you had your replacement phone? I know my battery life got better after a few days with my original captivate
I got my replacement phone about a week ago...I've been trying to drain and charge to make sure the system is getting a good read....I've had the battery since launch...the only time I got great battery life was when I used unhelpfuls undervolting and the first time I flashed jh7. I have only flashed one rom on my new phone. It just bothers me that it drains 5-6% an hour in idle. I don't have any Widgets and the only thing that is updating is email once an hour
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I think I might have caught a break....on my fourth day of charging and draining and I'm at 16 hrs with. 27% left. I guess ill continue with the whole charge and drain thing for the next couple of days.
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I somehow doubled my battery life. After draining and charging the last few days I managed to go from 12 hrs to 24 hrs of battery life while using it the same amount as before. I have had had my phone since launch and battery life sucked. I don't know it its because I got a refurbished phone that did it or what. I flashed my old phone almost every day for awhile. Even when I didn't flash I couldn't get it to last.
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Have you guys seen this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=806211
Good stuff, thanks
I've seen it and read most of the battery threads out there. I've come to the conclusion that: 1. There's a bad batch of phones out there that cause battery drain issues or 2. Since most of us ATT android users are new were unaware of the proper procedure to flash roms. I believe the second to be more true since most of the batterry drain issues happen due to flashing new roms according to most of the threads I've read. I would like to see the percentage of people out there who are still running there cappys stock with never Modding or flashing to see what type of battery life they are getting.
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Before rooting, sideloading and flashing unhelpful kernel I was getting the same battery life, 10-15 hours depending on use. The only thing unhelpful seemed to help with was my idle usage, about 1%/hour. I still need to tinker with the kernel and try wiping my bat stats. My phone reports the battery is at 5% but when I shut it off and plug it in it's more like 30% lol
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I had the same issue. Charge until full. Turn off and charge full... turn on and repeat. Erase battery stats via CW. The key is to let it die. Do not charge your battery until it dies....once it died I plugged it in and turned it on. If its at 1% then just let it charge completely. If its at 30% then you need to unplug and let it die again. Keep doing this until its at 1% when u plug it in. If you have to do the latter you have to start the process over again and erase stats and drain and fill the batterry. From here on out anytime you flash a rom make sure your phone is at 100%. Always let the phone die before charginging it the first time. I think the android system has to get a read of the batterry.
I think at some point along the way I charged my phone when it was at 30% after a flash so anytime after when my battery was dying I still really had 30% battery left but android was telling me my phone had no juice.. let me know if this works for you....
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Today it happened again, my battery is around 30%, I let it charge, I decide to turn the phone off and on again. When I turn it on, it suddenly shows it's 68% charged. Again I feel, I have lost the ability to fully load my battery since it now thinks it's full while it should be full an hour of charging later.
Can anyone tell what the hell is going on?
This happened to me before, see: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074093
its happen to me too..
battery around 10% and after reboot while charging its become 40%
weird...
cm7.02+netarchy 1.3.1 cfs
Good to hear there are more people with this issue (don't take it personal).
This is a serious issue, I feel my battery life i becoming shorter and shorter.
Come on, anyone?
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My battery life is **** now due to this bull****
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And it happened again, from 7% to 36 %. A real bug here.. why does nobody take this serious...
same here... hope there is a fix for this
If your phone is rooted, you can try to re-calibrate the battery by:
Charge the phone normally until it says Charged on the lock screen (you can turn on wi-fi in order to get more "fully" charge)
Turn off the phone, it will continue charging. Wait until the battery icon does not animate anymore (press Power button once to see the charging progress)
Turn on the phone, use adb shell or Root Explorer (or File Expert) and navigate to /data/system/
Delete the file named batterystats.bin
Reboot the phone
You can wipe battery stats in recovery, under the advance menu.
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Im aware of that solution, but I don't want to root..
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I've owned 3 Android devices and all 3 exhibited this behavior from Cupcake up to Gingerbread. Just ignore it because soon as you think it's stable it will revert back to doing it again. Just something I've learned to live with at this point.
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Im aware of that solution, but I don't want to root..
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If you're saying this is *really* serious then rooting is no big deal I guess
styckx said:
I've owned 3 Android devices and all 3 exhibited this behavior from Cupcake up to Gingerbread. Just ignore it because soon as you think it's stable it will revert back to doing it again. Just something I've learned to live with at this point.
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When my battery jumps I just keep using the phone until it dies and then recharge it. Crazy thing is, when it jumped from 12% to like 30%, my phone operated for a few hours while I texted and gamed on it so I don't really care that much. I have also yet to see any signs of deterioration.
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Im aware of that solution, but I don't want to root..
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Just one question, that puzzles me; why you don't want to root you phone?! Rooting is no biggie. And given the fact that this is a big prob for you, I suggest that you give it a try.
I'm rooted first of all.
Well, wifi, all GPS, and bluetooth off.
my battery was okay, it lasted for a day mostly. and I think about 2 days ago, the battery suddenly getting worse. Everything remains same. I haven't changed any option, but the bettry is suddenly worse.
I don't use my phone that much. like I got a phone call yesterday and today? no texting, no internet, no app uses.
I charged my battery full(til 11am or til noon), then it dies before 5pm.
(Today I charged my phone til 9:40am, got only one single phone call lasted 1-2mins, and my battery is already 47%.)
It's just terrible! Anyone has same prob????
I'm in California BTW.
are you rooted?
what rom/kernel?
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are you rooted?
what rom/kernel?
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I'm rooted and I think it's stock rom.
I just followed the manual perm root process.
It's weird because under same conditions, battery got totally worse than before. It lasted at least for a day, but now, it lasts only 4-5 hrs with same amount of usage under same conditions.
ever figure this out?
Just rooting will not change anything to your battery life. You need to install a rom or a different kernel in order for it to change anything.
Mine too has gotten worse in the last week. I am not rooted. At this point my battery is draining roughly 25% per hour with little or no use. Spare parts shows the most usage on my phone is 0. I have tried getting rid of weather bug, Pandora and sirius. I tried looking for something to explain exactly why 0 takes up 10x more battery than Android system itself and I have came to the conclusion that I am lost. Any direction to the correct forum topic would be appreciated.
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Mine too has gotten worse in the last week. I am not rooted. At this point my battery is draining roughly 25% per hour with little or no use. Spare parts shows the most usage on my phone is 0. I have tried getting rid of weather bug, Pandora and sirius. I tried looking for something to explain exactly why 0 takes up 10x more battery than Android system itself and I have came to the conclusion that I am lost. Any direction to the correct forum topic would be appreciated.
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Have you tried the "Blockbuster" mod?
1) open the Blockbuster Application, it should ask you to update.
2) once the update has finished open the application back up and
3) navigate to Menu>Settings> "Disable Movie Updates"
Users have reported better battery life.
Thanks for the reply. Yes I have updated and disabled the Blockbuster app. Better yet even I just rebooted my phone and it drained 12% on the battery. How is that possible. I am using my stock battery now and not the extended, so the % would be different with the stock compared to my extended but really I don't think it should use 12% on a reboot.
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Do you currently have 4g?
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Yes I do and I have been using LTE off/on for last 2 days .
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I also just logged of FB chat about 2 hours ago and Google talk. 2 hours later still at 52% maybe I am on to something.
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I guess you and I are on the same page! I charged mine til 9:40 am and went to work yesterday. I got only one phone call that lasted 1-2mins. The battery was already 52%. All GPS was off, bluetooth off, Wifi off, everything off except 4G. I sent a text and received a text, and the battery drained to 46%. After a few mins with no use of the phone, the battery warning sound played. So I had to charge my phone at that point. It is just totally weird. Under same condition and same usage of the phone, the battery lasted for a day at least. (4G was on at the point.) I don't know what cause this problem. Anyways, I just unrooted mine and got a software update via OTA. I don't know if this will fix the problem. Any luck to you yet?
I am going to charge tonight and try current settings tomorrow and see how long battery last. It is to the point if I have to turn all this stuff off, doesn't it defeat the purpose of having a smartphone?
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Try ZD Box
Try ZD Box, and use its task killer to stop any programs your not using right then. Pandora is another app that loves to stay on and chew at your battery...
My phone just started doing this as well. I've been using the TBolt for a couple of weeks now.
Just yesterday my battery life took a serious nose dive. I've adjusted all the settings I can and the battery is dropping like a drunk girl's panties...
I'm having to charge it all the time now just to keep it from giving me the low battery warning.
Ok well here it goes . Off charger for 30 mins 7 text ,this post and a restart and down 10% already. Wtf
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jimsteam321 said:
Thanks for the reply. Yes I have updated and disabled the Blockbuster app. Better yet even I just rebooted my phone and it drained 12% on the battery. How is that possible. I am using my stock battery now and not the extended, so the % would be different with the stock compared to my extended but really I don't think it should use 12% on a reboot.
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That's about what mine took on average to reboot. 10-12%.
I'm at 72% after 11 hours of idle usage and that's on the 2750mah extended battery. That would put me at 46% after 12 hours having not touched the phone once. I literally fell asleep as I took it off the charger...
Something is jacked up and I don't know what.
Rooted, Virus ROM B3, 1.8G kernel (forget which).
I've gone to Imoseyon's Sense lean kernel, special edition.
We'll see how that goes...?
Wanted to report back as I think the culprit may be the wireless tether app.
I turned GPS, WiFi and all my sync's back on and the phone is back to giving me decent battery life.
I did some changes with the tether app and I'll report back to see if my suspicions are correct.
Long story short, I cleared my battery stats immediately after my phone turned off from dying. Upon the first boot after that, the percentage meter read 0% for about ten minutes. I rebooted to see if anything would change, and now my meter reads 1% and has stayed there for about 20 min. I unplugged it, and got the message about plugging your phone in, but my phone stayed on for a while. After dying and turning back on, I put it back on the charger, and it's still at 1%. Did I permanently mess up my phone/ battery? Or is there anyway to fix this?
Clearing battery stats does nothing on this,phone you are ok.
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Thanks
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Thanks
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No problem. Just let her charge and you'll be just fine it takes a while to get caught up
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Clearing battery stats does nothing on this,phone you are ok.
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True. But a lot of people feel better doing it anyway.
As for the OP just leave your phone charging overnight, shutdown, take the battery out for a minute or two, re-insert battery, power phone on, do battery wipe again (for the heck of it). And your meter should be ok.
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True. But a lot of people feel better doing it anyway.
As for the OP just leave your phone charging overnight, shutdown, take the battery out for a minute or two, re-insert battery, power phone on, do battery wipe again (for the heck of it). And your meter should be ok.
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you can ask entropy he's the master. I wouldn't keep doing that though buddy let it charge don't keep messing with it. I've been here since day one,its best to not touch that.but do as you please ,and ask entropy for more info i'm sure he'll chime in to back me
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Yeah, clearing battery stats does nothing on first-gen GalaxyS devices, including our interim device. Unknown for GS2.
Google MAX17040 for more info. Or search the Infuse forums for "gingerbread fuel gauge" for my debug thread.
Just let it charge a while. When you're at 0-1%, things can get a little wonky as far as power management and charging. Just let it sit a while and don't run it down that much again!
Hi everyone, and merry Christmas. I have an odd battery issue that has been driving me nuts! Every night when i turn my G2x off I lose between 15% and 45% if my battery life. I know this is not an issue with my battery because if i turn off my G2x and pull the battery out when i put the battery back in in the morning the won't even be one percent lost.
I have had this issue on multiple rooms and with multiple kernels. I have had this on EaglesBlood, cyanogen, weapon, and miui. I have had the stock cyanogen kernel, trinity kernel and faux123 kernel. The only time i haven't had this problem was back before i rooted my phone.
Any help you all could give would be much appreciated. Thanks all!
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Note the battery charge percent, pull battery, put it back in, let sit overnight, turn on, note battery charge. If it discharged more than a percent or two, phone is probably faulty because it is drawing current when totally off.
This actually happens to me when I leave it off at work for a couple hours. Confuses me as well...
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Note the battery charge percent, pull battery, put it back in, let sit overnight, turn on, note battery charge. If it discharged more than a percent or two, phone is probably faulty because it is drawing current when totally off.
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I will have to try that and get back to you. I really want to find a solution to this.
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Well, i did what you suggested and when i turned the phone on this morning i hadn't lost a single percent. So, I'm still stumped.
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dkittle said:
Well, i did what you suggested and when i turned the phone on this morning i hadn't lost a single percent. So, I'm still stumped.
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Phone must be drawing current while it's off, which I am pretty sure is happening to me as well. Damnit.
dkittle said:
Well, i did what you suggested and when i turned the phone on this morning i hadn't lost a single percent. So, I'm still stumped.
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It is obvious that shutting off from the menu isn' t doing what it should, completely shutting off the phone. Backup your ROM then install a vanilla ROM without any additional apps, note battery percent then shutdown from menu and leave overnight then, in the morning boot it up and note if the battery drained. If it didn't, the problem is either an app or the kernel or rom you previously had installed.
So i temporarily went back to a stock ROM and it didn't seen to have the problem. Which sucks because i really don't want to go back to stock....
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