My S3 battery dies at around 20% on the regular? wtf - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

So i've searched and not came up with anything. Im on a custom ROM and have recently noticed my phone will completely die when it says around 22-20%. I've changed ROMS and even went to JellyBean recently with no luck. I've reset battery stats, no go. Any suggestions beside taking the battery back to VZW? Im going to leave my phone turned off, and charge like that tonight to see if anything else changes.

It seems that its a battery issue. Nothing software related. Are you using a custom kernal?
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Bump for the EXACT same issue. My battery has died for the past three days when the phone is between 20-22%. I'm on Synergy rom with no custom kernel. I've ordered some extra batteries so I'll have a better understanding in the next week or so if it's the phone or the battery. Any feedback/suggestions would be great.
Also note that the phone gives me zero warnings that it's about to die. No flashing lights, low battery indicator, nothing. I'm usually using the phone and it completely powers off without a seconds notice, as if the screen has dimmed. Trying to power it back on just produces a light vibration but no led or screen activity until it's connected to a charger.

joshw0000 said:
Bump for the EXACT same issue. My battery has died for the past three days when the phone is between 20-22%. I'm on Synergy rom with no custom kernel. I've ordered some extra batteries so I'll have a better understanding in the next week or so if it's the phone or the battery. Any feedback/suggestions would be great.
Also note that the phone gives me zero warnings that it's about to die. No flashing lights, low battery indicator, nothing. I'm usually using the phone and it completely powers off without a seconds notice, as if the screen has dimmed. Trying to power it back on just produces a light vibration but no led or screen activity until it's connected to a charger.
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Did the new batteries help? i just started having the same issue. Verizon was nice enough to send me a new battery which should arrive in a few days

fatalfuryy said:
Did the new batteries help? i just started having the same issue. Verizon was nice enough to send me a new battery which should arrive in a few days
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Yes and no. I'm no longer having the issue anymore but I don't think it was the battery. I was a making a backup so I could install GW. Instead of booting to TWRP, I accidentally went to Download Mode. I couldn't figure out how to get out so I pulled the battery. I then booted to recovery, backed up, wiped cache, and flashed GW.
I didn't have the issue for a couple more days until I received the new batteries and haven't had to use the stock battery since getting the others. Still no issues (knock on wood).
I think one of the following fixed it:
Wiping cache
Booting to download mode
Pulling the battery
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Bump...anyone have any luck? Same exact thing is happening to me...except my screen flickers a bit before dying.

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G SII LTE (rogers) battery does not charge past 70% and dropping

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.
xcrazydx said:
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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Battery indicator doesn't drop below 23% and then dies.

I am stock, rooted and unlocked just before the last minor OTA. My battery has been dying on me a lot recently because it keeps showing that I'm at around 23% when it's low. So I've never received the low battery warning, and after a while it just shuts off and doesn't turn back on... so it obviously drained.
I'm gonna try clearing battery stats in CWM after a full nights charge, but was wondering if anybody has an explanation for this? Or possibly any other solutions other than clearing battery stats.
Again, I'm running Stock ROM, rooted, and unlocked. The last OTA has not been installed and fails when it tries. The only other thing I have flashed is Google Now.
Please help, this glitch is seriously killing my battery because it keeps draining down to 0 before i even know it.
you dont have to wait for a full charge to wipe battery stats...sounds like the battery is going bad imo.
wiping stats didnt do anything... I'm back at being stuck at 23% as i type.
And a battery going bad after 3 months?? My Incredible's battery is still working just fine after 2+ years now.... Is it really possible for a battery to crap out this quick?
KrisPeezy said:
wiping stats didnt do anything... I'm back at being stuck at 23% as i type.
And a battery going bad after 3 months?? My Incredible's battery is still working just fine after 2+ years now.... Is it really possible for a battery to crap out this quick?
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Batteries usually last around 1-2 years then they start to degrade.
There will be times where the battery you get will be defective. Just go to the Verizon store and show them. They will be happy to replace it.
ya i would say the battery is going bad too
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Ok, I'll try to go into the verizon store some time next week.
I'm gonna take some screen caps of the battery drain to show them. And maybe I'll bring it in when it's at that 23% point...
I Should probably unroot and lock before i bring it in right?
KrisPeezy said:
Ok, I'll try to go into the verizon store some time next week.
I'm gonna take some screen caps of the battery drain to show them. And maybe I'll bring it in when it's at that 23% point...
I Should probably unroot and lock before i bring it in right?
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Try wiping the phone and getting that update or wipe and Odin the vrlhe update on. See if this does any thing for you you might end needing a new phone. But it could also just be the battery.
Wow! Same here dude. I've been off TW for a month, with it dying at exactly 23%. Yesterday, it did the same thing on JB TW. 23%.
Michael Jordan pissed at us or something? Using his magical powers to turn our phones off?
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I'm running into the exact same issue with my one week old CLN phone and brand new battery. Battery meter will not drop below 23%. If I shut the phone down, remove the battery, and power it back on, it will start resuming normally but the problem happens again once I charge the phone back up.
Has anyone found a solution?
Edit: BTW, I am rooted/unlocked running Beans11 and ktoonz kernel.
Ive recently run into this issue as well, anyone find a solution?
Happened to me once. i switched rom/kernel
iSheep... iSheep... Meowww that's Apple VZW GSIII
KrisPeezy said:
I am stock, rooted and unlocked just before the last minor OTA. My battery has been dying on me a lot recently because it keeps showing that I'm at around 23% when it's low. So I've never received the low battery warning, and after a while it just shuts off and doesn't turn back on... so it obviously drained.
I'm gonna try clearing battery stats in CWM after a full nights charge, but was wondering if anybody has an explanation for this? Or possibly any other solutions other than clearing battery stats.
Again, I'm running Stock ROM, rooted, and unlocked. The last OTA has not been installed and fails when it tries. The only other thing I have flashed is Google Now.
Please help, this glitch is seriously killing my battery because it keeps draining down to 0 before i even know it.
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This same excate thing happened to me. The cause, I used a hacked battery app. I tried everything to fix it, switched roms, kernels, wiped stats as many different ways as I could, but everytime I would be stuck at 23% till the phone died.
Restored all my apps without the battery montior app, let the phone do its thing, and its been fine.
Remove the app, wipe stats, reboot. Should work.
And I bet your using Battery monitor widget from 3c, aren't you?
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[Q] phone shuts down after battery goes from 40-50% to 0%

Today I had my AT&T One X at around 40% charge when I went to sleep. After getting up the phone had shut itself down and when I try to turn it on using the power switch nothing happens. I charged it then it starts charging from 0%. I am on stock 4.04 rom and have rooted the phone. This is the third time in a month that this has happened. I am attaching the battery curve that I got after today's incident. Please Help! Thank you very much for any help in advance.
bosskaunhai said:
Today I had my AT&T One X at around 40% charge when I went to sleep. After getting up the phone had shut itself down and when I try to turn it on using the power switch nothing happens. I charged it then it starts charging from 0%. I am on stock 4.04 rom and have rooted the phone. This is the third time in a month that this has happened. I am attaching the battery curve that I got after today's incident. Please Help! Thank you very much for any help in advance.
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Sounds like bad wakelocks, install Better Battery Stats to find out what is draining your battery.
Crappyvate said:
Sounds like bad wakelocks, install Better Battery Stats to find out what is draining your battery.
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I have installed betterbatterystats and will update with results next time it happens..
I too am having this problem. Though it started happening after my phone drained and wouldn't restart after charging (boot loop). After I fixed that, it's been dropping dead.
I'm on a stock rom with ElementalX 3.0 kernel. Was v2.0 when it initially started.
Any luck finding information? I still get about the same use out of it (sometimes). I'm thinking that maybe the battery's level is getting reported incorrectly?
This is a known bug, whatever the hell is causing it. Just about everyone has had this happen at least once.
Its Reh said:
I too am having this problem. Though it started happening after my phone drained and wouldn't restart after charging (boot loop). After I fixed that, it's been dropping dead.
I'm on a stock rom with ElementalX 3.0 kernel. Was v2.0 when it initially started.
Any luck finding information? I still get about the same use out of it (sometimes). I'm thinking that maybe the battery's level is getting reported incorrectly?
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How often are you having this problem. I have had this happen about 3 times in the last three weeks or so. Since my post last week, I haven't had it happen to me yet. I now have the betterbatterystats app installed and will update with results the next time I have battery drain.
bosskaunhai said:
How often are you having this problem. I have had this happen about 3 times in the last three weeks or so. Since my post last week, I haven't had it happen to me yet. I now have the betterbatterystats app installed and will update with results the next time I have battery drain.
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It happens quite often. Happened today, then three days before that. I really don't have much on this phone either. After the initial bootloop I did a factory reset and didn't really add much.
This happened to me once on stock rom and kernel. I think it has something to do with the network trying repeatedly to connect and draining the battery. But the phone is asleep and not updating the battery percentage. When the phone finally awakes, it instantly updates the batteryfrom whatever it was before to 0. It seems to happen to people in the early morning.
There is a pretty sizable thread on this already.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1881439
I have contacted AT&T and HTC. Neither knows whats up. Went to CM 10 though and haven't seen the issue. Although, the last 2 weeks with CR Dev I didn't see the issue either. It used to happen every night.
Butters619 said:
There is a pretty sizable thread on this already.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1881439
I have contacted AT&T and HTC. Neither knows whats up. Went to CM 10 though and haven't seen the issue. Although, the last 2 weeks with CR Dev I didn't see the issue either. It used to happen every night.
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Thought I remembered seeing a thread but couldn't find it via search.
I wonder if it's a sense based issue if you haven't seen it with CM 10. Though I didn't have any issues while using the stock kernel. -edit just read flar2's post about using stock and seeing the issue
Most likely something is draining while the phone is asleep and the battery doesn't update. You can see in my history details that when the phone wakes it jumps. Especially the ending death jump lol
I know if I have fast boot enabled and then it off, it'll drain around 10%. It only loses around 3 or 4 if the phone is shut down. I've never left it on overnight, but then again I am an avid task-killer
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Strange battery issue

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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djteotancolis said:
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
Addiso said:
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

Oneplus One dies at 20% battery charge rate

Few days back, my phone died even if it showed that battery has about 20%. Since then, my phone dies always near 20% charge state. Before it does, screen is flickering a little bit.
But so far I've observed, my phone runs about 1 hour and it still shows 100%. After that, it starts to drop. I've tried some calibration, but it never worked.
Do you know, how I can repair this or it's a subject for official repair? I would've tried to buy new batteries, but since it's OPO where batteries cannot be changed, or can be, but it brakes warranty so...
Thank you guys, appreciated.
How old is your OPO? What ROM did you use? Any custom kernel / details etc?
My OPO works fine on CM11 nightlies, stock kernel but rooted.
It's max 5 months old and I've never experienced such an issue. Down you have screenshot. I'm running stock ROM and everything. Hope it will help
defect device
korynkaaa said:
It's max 5 months old and I've never experienced such an issue. Down you have screenshot. I'm running stock ROM and everything. Hope it will help
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I think you have to send it back to 0ne+ and take your warranty claim.
greetings
Same issue Here!
korynkaaa said:
Few days back, my phone died even if it showed that battery has about 20%. Since then, my phone dies always near 20% charge state. Before it does, screen is flickering a little bit.
But so far I've observed, my phone runs about 1 hour and it still shows 100%. After that, it starts to drop. I've tried some calibration, but it never worked.
Do you know, how I can repair this or it's a subject for official repair? I would've tried to buy new batteries, but since it's OPO where batteries cannot be changed, or can be, but it brakes warranty so...
Thank you guys, appreciated.
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I have the same issue here. Bought my One on August, running stock, suddenly since a few days ago the phone goes dead on 20% or 16%.
I hope there is a solution for this, different from "send it back".
Katra78 said:
I have the same issue here. Bought my One on August, running stock, suddenly since a few days ago the phone goes dead on 20% or 16%.
I hope there is a solution for this, different from "send it back".
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I think you might get a faulty battery. This happened with my old galaxy note too. Changed battery and every issue is gone.
Got same issue since a few days, how to manage?
has anyone tries this https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/phone-switches-off-when-at-20-low-battery.157075/
27%
Same issue started happening with me too. Phone touched 25-27% mark and goes off suddenly. It was fine from last 3 weeks and from last 2 days, it is giving me this issue. I will try doing factory reset. Hope it works.
PS: I am on stock 38R without root.
has factory reset worked?
Reset doesn't work. It's software problem. A lot people having same issue.
Mine even worst. switched off about 35%. and lasted about 12 hours stuck on 100%.
I've done flash to stock 33R, 38R. clear everything. same. doesn't help.
Open up the phone dialer: type *#*#4636#*#*
This should bring you up to a "secret" settings page. Click on battery information. There you can check battery health!
Replied to a similar thread. I experienced the same issue where it stays at 100% for hours and died around 17%. Happened twice. What I did was turned off the phone and charged it full. Turned it on, waited a couple of minutes or so before unplugging. Had to make sure all apps in the background are up. So far it it fixed the problem for me.
Hope that helps.
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I've tried out an apps call "Easy Battery Calibration" can be downloaded from playstore. for rooted devices only.
After using it. it seems okay right now. 100% no longer holds up few hours. drop 2% about 1.5 hours usage.
Looks neat. still waiting for the battery depleting .
reinerlee said:
I've tried out an apps call "Easy Battery Calibration" can be downloaded from playstore. for rooted devices only.
After using it. it seems okay right now. 100% no longer holds up few hours. drop 2% about 1.5 hours usage.
Looks neat. still waiting for the battery depleting .
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Sorry, just got down to about 37%. it shuts off.
minicoop7 said:
Replied to a similar thread. I experienced the same issue where it stays at 100% for hours and died around 17%. Happened twice. What I did was turned off the phone and charged it full. Turned it on, waited a couple of minutes or so before unplugging. Had to make sure all apps in the background are up. So far it it fixed the problem for me.
Hope that helps.
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This works. But do i have to do that each time for charging?
lp4u said:
This works. But do i have to do that each time for charging?
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Not really. Only did it when it died at17%. There may be some app updates that causes it. In my case I think the culprit is Gsam. Cause when it updated, it messed up the calibration. But then again, it could've been other apps that updated at that time too ☺
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I faced this previously. Phone died around 40%. Install battery calibration app from play store. Calibrated my batt and all ok till date. Rooted and on fk kernel back then.
here's the fix. no need to install additional app. no root needed.
NOTE: do this at night, just before you decide to go to bed.
1. let the device turns off itself. no matter at which battery level.
2. while the device is powered off, charge it for at least 6 hours. do not interrupt the charging. do not turn on the phone. and do use the original charger and cable.
3. once the phone is charged for at least 6 hours. turn it on and use it as per your usual way.
4. repeat step 1 to 3 for another 2 times. then the phone's battery calibration will be fixed.
I see you are on 38R .. Have you updated to 44?
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Working. Thabks.
Wondering what caused this nevertheless.
Another issue is that never before when the battery was enpty that i saw that screen with chinese words. Is that new?

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