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Battery is droping like wildfire since root

Every since I've rooted the battery in this phone reminds me of my galaxy nexus and that's the reason I sold my galaxy nexus. I have tryed synergy ROM and cm10 with same results. Every 2 mins it drops a percent. I miss the battery life without the phone being rooted.
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How long did you riun the respective Rom's?
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Synergy for 2 days, cm for the last 12 hours
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Might just be a defective battery.

Neverendingxsin said:
Might just be a defective battery.
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root alone wouldn't do this, synergy rom/CM10 might - if you want to "go back" you should only simply have to flash a stock root rom again.
you should probably verify that the screen is turning off, or check the battery life statistics under settings. It could be a bad battery calibration perhaps? Probably should let the battery run down/charge up to calibrate (not sure if that's how it really works on phones but it works for laptops)

Yeah when I charged yesterday it only took a hour and a half from 0-100 I ran it down today to O and charged up again took 3 hours this time and its not dropping as fast very weird.
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You can try BetterBatteryStats to find out what if anything is draining battery.
Did you try to factory reset your phone? You probably need to return stock ROM first.

I oded factory 2 days ago
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I bet it is your battery. My battery has always been great.
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Sounds like a bad battery because when I rooted battery was the same and since the unlock battery has gotten even better! Kind of scary if you think about it.
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tonytownsend said:
Every since I've rooted the battery in this phone reminds me of my galaxy nexus and that's the reason I sold my galaxy nexus. I have tryed synergy ROM and cm10 with same results. Every 2 mins it drops a percent. I miss the battery life without the phone being rooted.
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My was doing that also. I use Synergy 1.7 now and use setcpu and have presets with screen off max 348 min 348 and I get killer battery. I also charge my phone when it is powered down. If you charge at night with the power on the phone stops charging at 100% so you may lose 8%. Your phone will do a trickle down to catch up to the normal reading. So you will lose 1% every couple minutes when you are on it till it catches itself. Yesterday I had tow hours and twenty six minutes of screen time with 13hrs on the battery and still had 46% battery.

tonytownsend said:
Synergy for 2 days, cm for the last 12 hours
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The general rule of thumb is that a Rom usually takes anywhere between 3 - 5 battery cycles before they Rom settles down and the battery normalizes
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Check for wake locks.. fb used to be hell on my vivow
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not bad

My s3 was on fire!!!!

I went to bed normal. Plugged in my s3 into the charger . My battery was like at 4%. I leave the phone on because I use it as an alarm clock. I woke up at 6am and NY phone is really really hot I have no idea why? Why would this be? So I turn it off and let it cool down. Mean the screen was off and everything. Could my charger be bad or? It was so hot you couldn't touch the screen for long.
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well do you have a custom rom on it does it have fast charge is it on? kernel? oc? voltage tweak?

clean rom 3.0, no overclock of any kind, no fastcharge

thrgk said:
I went to bed normal. Plugged in my s3 into the charger . My battery was like at 4%. I leave the phone on because I use it as an alarm clock. I woke up at 6am and NY phone is really really hot I have no idea why? Why would this be? So I turn it off and let it cool down. Mean the screen was off and everything. Could my charger be bad or? It was so hot you couldn't touch the screen for long.
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thrgk said:
clean rom 3.0, no overclock of any kind, no fastcharge
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We're going to need more info then that I am afraid to figure out what happened (if we can at all )
You flashed Clean Rom... did you
Use a custom kernel?
Flash the new firmware for the new update?
Flash the new radio for the update?
Any other things you flashed with the rom?
Any apps that have root permission?
I don't think it could be a bad charger .... key words don't think...
If it's not software related and it happens again it could be a bad cell in the battery perhaps and it's still trying to charge to capacity .... the more info you give us the more we can try and trouble shoot it.
Thank You for messaging XDA Anonamooose Tech support .....LOL
Anyone else have some insight?

Actually this happened before on my gnex . Thought the battery was bad but it can't be this battery also. What's weird was it charged it to 15% instead of 100% its like all the power after 15% was just heating it up instead of charging? Or could the battery be bad because I. Plugged it in again and it charged 33% in like 55minutes a 4400mah anker battery
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Airplane mode was also on
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thrgk said:
Actually this happened before on my gnex . Thought the battery was bad but it can't be this battery also. What's weird was it charged it to 15% instead of 100% its like all the power after 15% was just heating it up instead of charging? Or could the battery be bad because I. Plugged it in again and it charged 33% in like 55minutes a 4400mah anker battery
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its probably because your using a third party battery

Should I use siedio?
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So it really wasnt on fire, it was just really hot.
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thrgk said:
Should I use siedio?
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i would just use the stock battery, its pretty darn good.

I almost always get 24 hours on stock battery. You people are crazy for needin to switch batteries
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You may have also had hot spotting on, this has happened to me bfor, leaving hot spotting on for any long period of time can have the same effect.
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Happened to me. It was under my pillow. Had to put in freezer for 4 minutes
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ihavenewnike said:
Happened to me. It was under my pillow. Had to put in freezer for 4 minutes
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Taking a hot expanded object and exposing it to quick contraction is how you pop solders and crack circuit boards.Exposing to sudden heat is not as bad as sudden cold. Plastic shrinks at a different rate then metal, and so on.
You got lucky.

I have the chinese variant of the standard battery and it's not nearly as good.

agolfingcigar said:
I have the chinese variant of the standard battery and it's not nearly as good.
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Because its a chinese knock off...

Disappointed to come in here and seeing your phone was just hot and no actual pictures of it being on fire
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PaulG1488 said:
Disappointed to come in here and seeing your phone was just hot and no actual pictures of it being on fire
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Me too! Ir took it literally. Good way to get your thread some attention though....
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leyvatron said:
So it really wasnt on fire, it was just really hot.
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LOL, my thoughts exactly......ppl exaggerating again

Yeah I left mine under my pillow while charging. Thought I was gonna burn my hand xD don't worry though because the gs3 can take a LOT of heat to the point of being too hot to toutch.
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[Q] Quick dying battery/ Slow charge?

I'm rooted unlocked and romd and my battery dies so fast and I can't tell why. The whole day I've set CPU to power save and even in the settings power save is turned on. No apps are left running. It's been 7 hours and I'm on 53%? Is this normal or is my battery bad? I'm running the latest GalaxyMod rom.

Get GSAM battery monitor off the market and let it run. It will show you what's using your battery.
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Maybe Try a different kernel. That has happened to me on certain kernels.
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KSprec said:
I'm rooted unlocked and romd and my battery dies so fast and I can't tell why. The whole day I've set CPU to power save and even in the settings power save is turned on. No apps are left running. It's been 7 hours and I'm on 53%? Is this normal or is my battery bad? I'm running the latest GalaxyMod rom.
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How many hours of screen on time is there for those seven hours.
I'd say any thing over one and a half hours of screen on time is pretty decent for 53% over seven hours
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It was only 45 mins of screen time on very low brightness
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KSprec said:
It was only 45 mins of screen time on very low brightness
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Yeah. I reccomend downloading better battery stats to see what is killing it.
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Okay so my screen takes up 28% as for apps System and Kernel take up 14% each then Kik at 11% and Xda at 9% the rest don't use that much. Any advice?
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Are you charging with wall charger or car charger? Car chargers give a quick charge that eventually ruins batteries if used often. Also others have said to let it drain completely and use CWM to reset battery info. Then full charge and wipe battery info again. Once fully charged unplug replug charger in until it takes less than 10 seconds to show fully charged and reset battery info again. Doing that 2-3 times is said to help refresh battery. I did it once and saw a slight difference.

I'm just using a normal wall charger
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Battery question

I've been having pretty bad battery life for some reason.. I was wondering if maybe its bad to use my phone while its plugged in? Like just browsing at night while charging? I can see the battery percentage drop really frequently while using it. Any thoughts?
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goldenshibby said:
I've been having pretty bad battery life for some reason.. I was wondering if maybe its bad to use my phone while its plugged in? Like just browsing at night while charging? I can see the battery percentage drop really frequently while using it. Any thoughts?
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I use my phone all night while it's plugged in, haha.
And is the battery dropping WHILE charging? If so, your charging plug or your wire itself is damaged. It's odd to see battery declining, even during use, while charging.

Oops.. Sorry I phrased that wrong. I meant that the battery percentage drops fast just in general. One minute its at 100 and then in a minute or two its down to 99. Not sure what's up.
By the way I'm on hyperdrive 7 with stock kernel.
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goldenshibby said:
Oops.. Sorry I phrased that wrong. I meant that the battery percentage drops fast just in general. One minute its at 100 and then in a minute or two its down to 99. Not sure what's up.
By the way I'm on hyperdrive 7 with stock kernel.
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Oh, haha okay.
Well it's normal for your battery to drop down to 99% in a minute or two, because the battery can't sustain 100% max for too long. If your battery life can last you throughout the day, I would say you should be fine. But, if you're like me, I would use a conservative-based governor, no matter the kernel. I use KTweaker.

Mind showing a screenshot of your battery stats?
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The weird thing is that the battery goes down fast even when I'm not using the phone. Yeah I'll upload a screenshot tonight. Thanks.
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goldenshibby said:
The weird thing is that the battery goes down fast even when I'm not using the phone. Yeah I'll upload a screenshot tonight. Thanks.
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Like how fast you think?
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Battery problems, is it dead or something else

My sensation have interesting battery problem, so far phone is old, but problem is this when i charge it it charges so slow, from 15 % batery charging all night i got only 68%. Have tryed many chargers, my note 2 charger, iphone charher, all is same, but it lasts all day if i dont text so much, when im on phonecalls, but texting just drains it so fast like hell.
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it also can be bad reading of battery stats... what rom do you use? and when you flashed it?

Using cm 10.1. Flashed since it get stabile, flash almost every update, about kernel and performance improvments, so far on may 10 update, charged with my notes charfer what is 2 amp charger and no difference
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Yep... Probably it's battery related... You can also check with better battery stats (bbs) and see what it shows when you unplug the charger.
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Will try, tomorrow will see what is wrong
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