My Wife's unrooted S2 runing the stock ICS is having issues with battery charge.
She has had it for about 1 month.
The past week she can no longer charge it past 70% (this value is continually dropping). It will go to 100% if the phone is charging while off for 12+hours but then as soon as it turns on the battery drops to 75%.
I have read of pulling the battery for a while, Plug in the phone pop in the battery and power on immediately but this has done nothing.
I have not rooted and tried other roms on her phone yet since we may have to return it.
Any suggestions?
BTW... Sorry for one more battery thread. Just didn't find the solution with my searching.
Bring it in. Maybe a new battery
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Replace it under warranty, will be easier than anything else.
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Bring it in. Maybe a new battery
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That was my thought just wanted to check if there were any other magic tricks out there.
Thanks
So just as an update I tried a few things that did not work. Wiped battery stats. Charged the phone with different chargers. Tried cm10. Got a new battery. Reflashed gingerbread.
The maximum charge varied from 50% to 80%
I wiped the phone and will return it.
I am giving this update since I received a pm from the someone with the same problem
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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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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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Guys, I need some help. My four days old sensation is acting crazy. After every charge, the battery level does not change for some time. Like, today, took phone of the charger at 8 am and I used it for browsing the net for like 2 hours. The first time it moved was at like 1pm to 97%. After this, the battery started to go down somewhat . When I got home at 6pm, it was at 65%.
As I'm typing this right now, I took the phone off the charger at 79% , been using it for an hour straight , yet still shows 79%. Is this normal behavior for this phone? Anyone else have the same issue? Should I exchange this phone with another new one at walmart?
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Guys, I need some help. My four days old sensation is acting crazy. After every charge, the battery level does not change for some time. Like, today, took phone of the charger at 8 am and I used it for browsing the net for like 2 hours. The first time it moved was at like 1pm to 97%. After this, the battery started to go down somewhat . When I got home at 6pm, it was at 65%.
As I'm typing this right now, I took the phone off the charger at 79% , been using it for an hour straight , yet still shows 79%. Is this normal behavior for this phone? Anyone else have the same issue? Should I exchange this phone with another new one at walmart?
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So to sum up... My battery is amazing!!! Should I trade it in and hope for one that dies faster?
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So to sum up... My battery is amazing!!! Should I trade it in and hope for one that dies faster?
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Lol, I get your point, but my main concern is that is this normal? Shouldn't it go down gradually from the beginning? Like just right now, its been off the charger for an hour and half, and just now it has moved for the first time from 79 to 77. And I've been using it non-stop during that time.
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Mine stays at a hundred for longer than usual but nothing like this.... I want this problem.
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I think it's a problem to do with the software and battery stats. Other people have reported this issue (there was a thread about it sometime ago, if I can I'll find it). Maybe when we get root and clear the battery stats through Recovery we'll see it go back to normal. Or maybe a ROM such as CM7 will solve it.
Or maybe you do just have an amazing battery
It seems i'm having the same issue. Battery is stuck at 100 and battery voltage shown is actually rising.
When i charged my Sensation for the first time, it ended with completely discharged and overheated battery. Phone told me that i should have used only original charger and then restarted. The charger included looked original to me
I charged my phone from PC USB port and it worked until now. I just charged again with the included charger and now it's stuck at 100.
I don't know what to do now, my Sensation doesn't have any of the many other problems reported here, so i'm not sure i really want to get a replacement. Can this be a problem with the battery or is it phone hardware? I can't believe it's software...
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.
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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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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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My phone is reporting that the battery is in good health but won't charge past 13% could this be a bad battery or phone? Charged perfectly fine last night. On the stock JB rom
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More info? ROM, rooted, condition of battery before problem?
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More info? ROM, rooted, condition of battery before problem?
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Stock JB ROM as stated in OP, no root. Battery is just under a week old. I think it's the phone because I pulled the battery for a bit, put it back in and it was giving me a different number then started charging but very slowly.
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Stock JB ROM as stated in OP, no root. Battery is just under a week old. I think it's the phone because I pulled the battery for a bit, put it back in and it was giving me a different number then started charging but very slowly.
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maybe root and clear battery stats? Or just flash a stock rom and wipe data to see if the problem persists, if it does, then its probably a hardware issue.
I have this problem sometimes - the battery percentage reported by the phone while its booted into Android will be incorrect (fixed to correct % after rebooting). Sometimes my battery % will be stuck on a certain value for about 30 minutes either while discharging or charging.I find that pulling the battery and doing a clean install of a ROM with a full data wipe on a rooted device fixes the issues sometimes. Funny, there is no definitive fix for this problem that I've found. I guess some devices/batteries/ROMs are more susceptible?
Seems like about two or three weeks ago, just before moving to mf1, I started noticing my phone, while on the charger would not charge positive. It will actually loose battery, even though its plugged in. I have tried multiple chargers, and bought a new battery, but still the same. After a brand new flash, like what I'm on now which is Hyperdrive, it seems to charge initially, then within a few hours of use, it goes the other way. It won't get over 79% even when left on charge overnight. I am considering odining back to stock unless there might be a fix for this. Its almost like the charging drivers are screwed u. When I power the phone off, and try to plug in the charger, no battery symbol shows like it use to, and it just vibrates intermittently. I have to unplug it and power it back on for it to charge.. any help on this would be great.
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Try stock for a few days and see if the problem persist! i would say you probably have a defective battery..I had the issue where the phone would die at full charge and never turn on again and then after a few days the battery would work again..I called Samsung and told them about my problem and they will replaced it for me
I think it's related to the mf1 rpm that is screwed up. My battery tends to hang around 23 percent and will take forever to charge, but in reality it's the reporting that is wrong but your battery is actually charging.
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Try stock for a few days and see if the problem persist! i would say you probably have a defective battery..I had the issue where the phone would die at full charge and never turn on again and then after a few days the battery would work again..I called Samsung and told them about my problem and they will replaced it for me
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well, it was doing it on my original battery, so i thought maybe it was gone bad, and I bought a brand new one and it still does the same thing, so i probably didnt need to spend the 42 bucks..lol
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I think it's related to the mf1 rpm that is screwed up. My battery tends to hang around 23 percent and will take forever to charge, but in reality it's the reporting that is wrong but your battery is actually charging.
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I'm gonna go total stock, take the updates, see how it goes then I will re root if that fixes it.. if not I'm going to take it to verizon and demand a new one.. lol