Hi everyone,
I'm currently running CM10 on my AT&T One X. It runs great, but when I hit 6% battery, it suddenly jumps to 1% and shuts off a few seconds later. I've tried recalibrating by using the app available on Google Play, as well as letting it shut off and recharging all the way. Neither have seemed to fix the issue. My question is; are there any other ways to recalibrate the battery, or simply cause the battery indicator to display the proper percentage?
Thanks to anyone with advice!
Have you looked to see if anyone else on CM10 reporting anything similar?
In any case, the battery meter is not all that accurate in the best of conditions. I wouldn't trust the meter being below 10% to mean you have much significant battery. Really, by the time you hit 20% or so, you should be looking to charge.
Why you letting it get that low? Normally around 10% I plug in.
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It's not habitual or anything. I just normally don't plug it in until I go to sleep, and sometimes it dies before that time comes.
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Why you letting it get that low? Normally around 10% I plug in.
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This isn't based on facts but my 2 cents is that because the calibration of the battery isn't wiped, it's not accurate. There's no wipe battery stats in TwRP. If you ever notice the battery percentage in TWRP after flashing many ROM, it differs from the actual phone.
I wipe the batterystats.bin in data/system when full then reboot but who knows if that even works. I had my phone turn off @ 3% once so who knows but charge it as soon as it gets in the teens. Its bad for the battery if it keeps powering off when low.
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This isn't based on facts but my 2 cents is that because the calibration of the battery isn't wiped, it's not accurate. There's no wipe battery stats in TwRP. If you ever notice the battery percentage in TWRP after flashing many ROM, it differs from the actual phone.
I wipe the batterystats.bin in data/system when full then reboot but who knows if that even works. I had my phone turn off @ 3% once so who knows but charge it as soon as it gets in the teens. Its bad for the battery if it keeps powering off when low.
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You're right: that isn't based on facts.
Battery stats get reset every time you charge your phone. Manually wiping them does nothing.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/google-engineer-debunks-myth-wiping-battery-stats-does-not-improve-battery-life/
This issue has been discussed in other threads. Seems to be specific To CM roms only.
Some report steep declines from 40% to zero in seconds. You seem lucky.
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Okay good to know; thanks. I'll be patient.
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This issue has been discussed in other threads. Seems to be specific To CM roms only.
Some report steep declines from 40% to zero in seconds. You seem lucky.
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I wouldn't worry about it. Mine turns off anywhere from 5 to 15%. The battery percentage is just an estimate based on the software, it's not an actual indicator. As such there are tons of variables that can affect when the phone is actually out of battery.
TWRP also doesnt report battery correctly and it has nothing to do with the stats. It is taking more of an educated guess as to where it's at. Believe it has something to do with are phones.
thanks for the info.. i have experienced this issue also
Battery percentage is guessed at based on voltage. As the battery drains, voltage decreases slightly. Yes it is an educated guess. Every battery behaves slightly differently and has a unique profile or discharge curve. Some may be steeper than others at the end, but the device should learn this and adjust accordingly. An internal short in a composite battery like this would also exhibit this behavior, only exhibiting itself at certain voltage levels(dependant on location of physical short in battery) where voltage drops to 0 at that moment. I have seen this issue in defective packs where they work fine most of the time, but then zero all of a sudden. I'm not saying this is your problem, but the case design/new soft shell battery(no hard plastic shell to protect against the internal layers from being squeezed together) is wide open to physical damage from the phone being compressed.
Try a stock ROM and verify it works normally. If not, the battery is damaged.
My One X has never shut off before it reached 1%. I unlocked it 4 days after getting it in the beginning of June and have been running CR ever since and never had a steep battery decline.
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Note: I searched the forum and saw nothing like my issue, if there is then I missed it and I apologize.
So here is the issue. When charging it gets to between 85-90% then immediately jumps to 100%. Have tried clearing the stats, draining, then full charge. Any suggestions on this?
How old is the battery are you charging USB or AC?
Most likely its a old battery
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Note: I searched the forum and saw nothing like my issue, if there is then I missed it and I apologize.
So here is the issue. When charging it gets to between 85-90% then immediately jumps to 100%. Have tried clearing the stats, draining, then full charge. Any suggestions on this?
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very odd, I've actually experienced the inverse. Charge would hold at like 20% and then jump to 10% in a second. Are you noticing in use there is a jump back down i.e. when you unplug, does it jump from 100% straight to 90% or does this just happen when charging. If it just happens with charging, I'd say run current widget and see how much mA is left when it makes the jump to 100% and see if the battery is actually charging correctly. In other words, if you're charging and the battery jumps from 90 to 100 and you still have like 200 mA left, something is goofy with your battery and I'd recommend a new battery or at the very least full wiping and reflashing your ROM.
If it jumps and the remaining mA is like 30 or something low, then the actual battery seems to be fine and I'd recommend a full wipe and reflash the rom you're using. In all honestly, it's probably the battery and may just be worth getting a new one.
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Note: I searched the forum and saw nothing like my issue, if there is then I missed it and I apologize.
So here is the issue. When charging it gets to between 85-90% then immediately jumps to 100%. Have tried clearing the stats, draining, then full charge. Any suggestions on this?
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Im not attacking you im just trying to clarify. Are you saying it jumps to 100%, meaning you see it say 100% or are you referring to the led going green at about 90%?
I'm not convinced it is a battery issue... I've only very recently rooted my phone (have had it for 11 months) and haven't had the charge indicator jump past the last 10% like it did just today.
Looking at the last 26hours of history (ICS 3.0.0 install), the initial battery discharge showed normal taper from 100-85%, however on charge it jumped from somewhere just below 90% to 100% instantaneously.
I should have taken a screenshot, but instead I wiped the battery stats and am in the initial discharge cycle still. I've had the phone 11 months and have never cleared the battery stats before.
Maybe 8 months old.
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Im not attacking you im just trying to clarify. Are you saying it jumps to 100%, meaning you see it say 100% or are you referring to the led going green at about 90%?
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When it hits 85-90% the led turns green then it shows 100% right after that.
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When it hits 85-90% the led turns green then it shows 100% right after that.
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the led is supposed to go green at 90% to indicate trickle charge mode. but ya that should not be triggering the 100%. are you using a battery mod that isnt included with the rom?
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When it hits 85-90% the led turns green then it shows 100% right after that.
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Run the battery down until the phone dies. I have had this happen to me before. When I got down to 1%, it took a really long time for the phone to die. Recharging and doing a couple of long cycles of letting the battery go down to a really low level before charging fixed it. Do not delete battery stats as it does no good.
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Run the battery down until the phone dies. I have had this happen to me before. When I got down to 1%, it took a really long time for the phone to die. Recharging and doing a couple of long cycles of letting the battery go down to a really low level before charging fixed it. Do not delete battery stats as it does no good.
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Did that already, stated that in OP
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the led is supposed to go green at 90% to indicate trickle charge mode. but ya that should not be triggering the 100%. are you using a battery mod that isnt included with the rom?
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No mod on the battery.
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Did that already, stated that in OP
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You stated in the op you cleared battery stats. I specifically mentioned trying the process without clearing battery stats and doing some additional cycles without clearing.
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You stated in the op you cleared battery stats. I specifically mentioned trying the process without clearing battery stats and doing some additional cycles without clearing.
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Indeed. I did that twice actually
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Indeed. I did that twice actually
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Well if calibration processes fail to correct it, then I would suspect a bad battery.
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You might try an app called Battery Calibration. Found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867
I don't necessarily use it to calibrate but to monitor the mV. It might help in seeing if it is in fact a bad battery or if your battery indicator is showing a false reading.
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You might try an app called Battery Calibration. Found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867
I don't necessarily use it to calibrate but to monitor the mV. It might help in seeing if it is in fact a bad battery or if your battery indicator is showing a false reading.
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Yea I tried that after the normal calibration. Another weird thing is my phone has been sitting at 1% for like an hour.
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Yea I tried that after the normal calibration. Another weird thing is my phone has been sitting at 1% for like an hour.
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Go back and read my first post. I told you this would happen.
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Go back and read my first post. I told you this would happen.
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The sitting at 1% was happening before. Just never really payed attention to it. Have tried the normal calibration twice now and the method you mentioned as well. Going to ATT tomorrow and see about exchanging the battery. Will post results.
Edit: Want to add a thanks for all the suggestions from everyone.
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The sitting at 1% was happening before. Just never really payed attention to it. Have tried the normal calibration twice now and the method you mentioned as well. Going to ATT tomorrow and see about exchanging the battery. Will post results.
Edit: Want to add a thanks for all the suggestions from everyone.
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Then it may be that time. I got my battery to hold out a little longer, but soon after, I started getting bad drain. I recently replaced my battery and haven't had issues since.
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The sitting at 1% was happening before. Just never really payed attention to it. Have tried the normal calibration twice now and the method you mentioned as well. Going to ATT tomorrow and see about exchanging the battery. Will post results.
Edit: Want to add a thanks for all the suggestions from everyone.
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Sounds more like a battery calibration issue than a battery issue.
Give it a bit of thought... from 90% it skips to 100% when charging. However at 1% it camps out for an hour or more before shutting off. This indicates an issue with how the charge of the battery is being measured/expressed...
Now let's think about what is happening behind the scenes. This measure of charge is "defined as the available capacity expressed as a percentage of some reference, sometimes its rated capacity but more likely its current (i.e. at the latest charge-discharge cycle) capacity but this ambiguity can lead to confusion and errors. It is not usually an absolute measure in Coulombs, kWh or Ah of the energy left in the battery which would be less confusing. "
Essentially, the way the phone is measuring the battery isn't working correctly. However, is the duration of the battery life what you would expect given your use of it?
If YES, then it's a measuring issue.
Okay my phone said I had 34 percent battery I rebooted my phone now its reading 67 percent wth how do I fix this..
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Use battery calibrator fron Play. Run it 100% and press "calibrate" in the app. Can also wipe battery stats as well.
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Use battery calibrator fron Play. Run it 100% and press "calibrate" in the app. Can also wipe battery stats as well.
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Who is it made by I see a lot of results when I search that.
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Any of them will do. They all delete the same file to calibrate.
Once you calbrate, let the battery dtain all the way to power off for the first cycle.
Also, its not unusual for the battery percentage to jump alot on reboot. It will drop down ro the correct amount pretty quickly.
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Any of them will do. They all delete the same file to calibrate.
Once you calbrate, let the battery dtain all the way to power off for the first cycle.
Also, its not unusual for the battery percentage to jump alot on reboot. It will drop down ro the correct amount pretty quickly.
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Thx for that info
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It could be the first signs of a dying battery as well.
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You do not need to drain your battery completely down (until the phone powers off) to get an accurate calibration. Anything below about 15% will be good enough.
Although it is rare, letting a li-ion battery drain completely to zero can sometimes cause it to fail. There are sensors in these batteries that makes sure that they don't ever drain completely (even when we see zero, there is still some power left - similar to when your car gas light comes on but you still have a few gallons of 'reserve fuel) Sometimes these sensors can fail. If that happens, you have a bad battery.
Also, after calibrating give it a few full cycles to gain top accuracy. The jump you see after a reboot is normal, though it shouldn't be as severe as you mentioned.
Hi my friend,
Some say "battery calibration" app works some says it doesn't, don't really know but "wipe battery datas" in recovery does the same.
this happens when you flash different roms and some roms does not include battery calibration scrips. My rom does and i never have this issue, works very well.
this issue resolves by itself when wiping data and giving it 2 or 3 complete cycles.
Be patient then , all will comme back to normal.
I also saw a new app called "battery repair", i just bought it on market, but can not tell the results now because too early. i took it because it repair yes but most of all give you more time of use ...
cheers
I'm having a weird issue with the battery gauge on the CM 9 Alpha 3 and 4 ROM's. If the phone is rebooted when the battery is between ~40% to 70% it shows that the battery will drop to ~15% immediately after rebooting. I've been through calibrating and wiping the battery stats both with the calibration program and through CWM recovery. The battery is showing 3759mV at the time it's reporting 15% after the reboot. I've tried 2 batteries which are both stock batteries, one is about 6 months old and the other is 2 months old. I never noticed this as a problem before, I was running pure stock up until 2 weeks ago. I had the MIK Rom on it for a week, then put CM9 Alpha 3 last week, and Alpha 4 this morning. You can see the "display on" time and massive drop at reboot on the attachments. It also reflects the drains while I was making calls and playing throughout the day. Am I missing something or is there something else to check?
Thanks, I really like this ROM and hope this is just a glitch or me missing something.
The stock batteries are infamous for their very low charges. Get an aftermarket battery.
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The stock batteries are infamous for their very low charges. Get an aftermarket battery.
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I've been reading through the battery posts on here and am leaning that way. But even with that in consideration, I wouldn't think there would be such a dastric drop like that, and I didn't notice this before until I put the new ROM's on. I'm thinking about going back to another ROM and see if the problem still exists there.
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I'm having a weird issue with the battery gauge on the CM 9 Alpha 3 and 4 ROM's. If the phone is rebooted when the battery is between ~40% to 70% it shows that the battery will drop to ~15% immediately after rebooting. I've been through calibrating and wiping the battery stats both with the calibration program and through CWM recovery. The battery is showing 3759mV at the time it's reporting 15% after the reboot. I've tried 2 batteries which are both stock batteries, one is about 6 months old and the other is 2 months old. I never noticed this as a problem before, I was running pure stock up until 2 weeks ago. I had the MIK Rom on it for a week, then put CM9 Alpha 3 last week, and Alpha 4 this morning. You can see the "display on" time and massive drop at reboot on the attachments. It also reflects the drains while I was making calls and playing throughout the day. Am I missing something or is there something else to check?
Thanks, I really like this ROM and hope this is just a glitch or me missing something.
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Did you use 6 axis?
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Did you use 6 axis?
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Nope, just the touch screen.
I know that Lion batteries do not have a linear discharge slope, but with the mV @ 3759 that should reflect ~50% I believe, which is where the % showed before the reboot. But, I didn't check the mV before the reboot. That'll probably be the next thing.
I pulled the lines from battery history.txt file on the sdcard. It looks like the mV dropped around 20mV but the % dropped 40 from the reboot. I streamed videos on YouTube for about an hour and it dropped to 9. Finished it off after that and the phone shut off around 3293mV. The first lines are the reboot.
2012/06/09|17:50:16|-461mA|55%|3702mV|70.7ºF|.500|0
2012/06/09|17:51:28|-461mA|15%|3681mV|71.2ºF|.16|0
2012/06/09|18:01:19|-1mA|15%|3798mV|70.7ºF|.428|0
2012/06/09|18:11:18|-1mA|15%|3798mV|65.3ºF|.13|0
2012/06/09|18:21:18|-3mA|15%|3789mV|62.0ºF|.0|0
2012/06/09|18:31:19|-1mA|15%|3795mV|64.4ºF|.0|0
2012/06/09|18:41:19|-1mA|15%|3780mV|64.4ºF|.0|0
2012/06/09|18:51:18|0mA|15%|3801mV|64.0ºF|.0|0
2012/06/09|19:01:19|-1mA|15%|3759mV|68.9ºF|.385|0
2012/06/09|19:11:19|-2mA|15%|3792mV|64.0ºF|.75|0
2012/06/09|19:21:18|-3mA|15%|3744mV|65.6ºF|.531|0
2012/06/09|19:30:08|-3mA|15%|3783mV|63.6ºF|.200|0
2012/06/09|19:36:48|-3mA|12%|3654mV|65.6ºF|.10|0
2012/06/09|19:46:43|-1mA|10%|3771mV|63.1ºF|.113|0
2012/06/09|19:56:42|-1mA|10%|3675mV|70.8ºF|.588|0
2012/06/09|20:06:42|-3mA|9%|3729mV|66.2ºF|.303|0
2012/06/09|20:14:29|-3mA|9%|3693mV|65.4ºF|.0|0
2012/06/09|20:24:29|-2mA|9%|3666mV|70.7ºF|.1000|0
2012/06/09|20:34:29|-2mA|9%|3645mV|71.4ºF|.998|0
2012/06/09|20:36:47|-1mA|9%|3705mV|72.8ºF|.0|0
2012/06/09|20:46:47|-2mA|9%|3675mV|67.2ºF|.211|0
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I pulled the lines from battery history.txt file on the sdcard. It looks like the mV dropped around 20mV but the % dropped 40 from the reboot. I streamed videos on YouTube for about an hour and it dropped to 9. Finished it off after that and the phone shut off around 3293mV. The first lines are the reboot.
2012/06/09|17:50:16|-461mA|55%|3702mV|70.7ºF|.500|0
2012/06/09|17:51:28|-461mA|15%|3681mV|71.2ºF|.16|0
2012/06/09|18:01:19|-1mA|15%|3798mV|70.7ºF|.428|0
2012/06/09|18:11:18|-1mA|15%|3798mV|65.3ºF|.13|0
2012/06/09|18:21:18|-3mA|15%|3789mV|62.0ºF|.0|0
2012/06/09|18:31:19|-1mA|15%|3795mV|64.4ºF|.0|0
2012/06/09|18:41:19|-1mA|15%|3780mV|64.4ºF|.0|0
2012/06/09|18:51:18|0mA|15%|3801mV|64.0ºF|.0|0
2012/06/09|19:01:19|-1mA|15%|3759mV|68.9ºF|.385|0
2012/06/09|19:11:19|-2mA|15%|3792mV|64.0ºF|.75|0
2012/06/09|19:21:18|-3mA|15%|3744mV|65.6ºF|.531|0
2012/06/09|19:30:08|-3mA|15%|3783mV|63.6ºF|.200|0
2012/06/09|19:36:48|-3mA|12%|3654mV|65.6ºF|.10|0
2012/06/09|19:46:43|-1mA|10%|3771mV|63.1ºF|.113|0
2012/06/09|19:56:42|-1mA|10%|3675mV|70.8ºF|.588|0
2012/06/09|20:06:42|-3mA|9%|3729mV|66.2ºF|.303|0
2012/06/09|20:14:29|-3mA|9%|3693mV|65.4ºF|.0|0
2012/06/09|20:24:29|-2mA|9%|3666mV|70.7ºF|.1000|0
2012/06/09|20:34:29|-2mA|9%|3645mV|71.4ºF|.998|0
2012/06/09|20:36:47|-1mA|9%|3705mV|72.8ºF|.0|0
2012/06/09|20:46:47|-2mA|9%|3675mV|67.2ºF|.211|0
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Looks about right for a stock battery. Get an aftermarket battery.
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Looks about right for a stock battery. Get an aftermarket battery.
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My stock battery does better than that, and never jumped between values (except with the CM 7 kang). With stock Android and now CM 9, I never have that issue :\
I saw a post in the ROM thread that user jarnom had the same thing happen with the battery gauge. I had it happen again when I was at 50% and after the reboot it was @ 6%. I tried what they did, pulled the battery and waited a minute. Powered back on, and the gauge went back to 48%. I never though about pulling the battery, but it worked to get the gauge back to where it should have been.
try Calibrating your battery?
have you tried calibrating your battery? it is recomended to calibrate after your flash a new rom. first time i calibrated my bat life went up at least x2!
not here to advetise any specific app so search "battery calibration" in the market.
hope this helps?
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have you tried calibrating your battery? it is recomended to calibrate after your flash a new rom. first time i calibrated my bat life went up at least x2!
not here to advetise any specific app so search "battery calibration" in the market.
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Yes, and no, at the same time. The actual apps that wipe the batterystats.bin file doesn't do anything but remove the file that stores the usage history of the apps. Seidler2457 pointed that out here on the site.
I did start using battery widget pro to see what it showed compared to the phone as it learns the minimum and maximum values for the battery after multiple complete discharge cycles. It estimates time left on the current charge pretty accurately using the current mA draw on the battery. I use my phone until it is dead at night, and then recharge overnight, so it has a few good complete %1 to %100 cycles on it. It's not affecting the battery life that I can tell, I'm getting the same average times out of the battery every day. Actual battery life has been really excellent on this ROM, it's just a weird issue I noticed.
hey, having a sortve similar issue except now the phones battery isnt even taking a charge ._.
anker battery is awesome just went 2 days 12 hours running cm9 alpha 4
Not to sure what all these negatives mean? This is the first night I ran battery monitor widget
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Not to sure what all these negatives mean? This is the first night I ran battery monitor widget
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That's the mA field, (current going to/from the battery. Next to it is the % field, then mV, and finally temp. It was showing a - value when the phone was using battery. It does that periodically when the battery is fully charged and still on the charger.
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That's the mA field, (current going to/from the battery. Next to it is the % field, then mV, and finally temp. It was showing a - value when the phone was using battery. It does that periodically when the battery is fully charged and still on the charger.
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Thanks man, I was thinking good thing my ankers are in shipping right now and will be here Monday/Tuesday lol
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I've noticed the past few days, after flashing ICS, that my battery hangs at 77% while charging. I completely discharging it right now and deleted battery stats in recovery. My phone is only two weeks old =/
I flashed Alpha 5 earlier tonight and have rebooted 8 times now to check for this issue. Every time the battery stat has come back at the same level as before the reboot, which is awesome. I'm not sure if anything was changed specifically, but the nuisance I had isn't there now. I flashed over Alpha 4 with just a cache and Dalvik wipe.
Hello, I'm currently running cm 9, however the battery life is just awful
When the phone is on sleep it loses like 1 percent every 5-10 minutes
I am using an extended battery as well, please tell me what to do I was on GB before and the battery was outstanding, I could go on one charge the whole day with heavy usage, now i dont think I can make it through the day with light usage on this
thank you
EDIT: This could be a sleep problem, because when the device is on, the battery is normal
If you flashed the Feb 27 cm9 you should flash proton kernel so you can watch videos. Battery life isn't as good as gb no matter what you do. Also give it some time to settle in. It takes more than a couple hours.
alright thank you... I just flashed the newest version of cm9 a few hours ago, I was flashing a bunch of roms and this one seemed the best... do you know how to force a device into deep sleep cause that seems to be the problem i believe
OK I was just on 20 percent, then i rebooted my phone, and now im on 2 percent... im seriously considering going back to gb
Sounds more like a battery thing? With CM9.? + Proton I'm getting at least a day* with light use. Maybe a bad app or combo of apps? What does BBS say is eating the charge?
* - I say at least a day because I can't not use it for that long.
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Sounds more like a battery thing? With CM9.? + Proton I'm getting at least a day* with light use. Maybe a bad app or combo of apps? What does BBS say is eating the charge?
* - I say at least a day because I can't not use it for that long.
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just the screen and the android system... very interesting thing though is happening
I'm running a bunch of quadrants to get the battery down to 0, and the battery is all the way down to 1%, however it's been on 1% for like 6 quadrant tests... maybe its just a problem with the indicator, however another indicator also says it's at 1%... very interesting
If you are on CM9, I suggest you flash Hefe or Proton.
I use Hefe because according to the posts being made it puts your phone into deep sleep, which means longer battery life.
tstrat said:
OK I was just on 20 percent, then i rebooted my phone, and now im on 2 percent... im seriously considering going back to gb
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Definitely a battery problem. This happens to me on one of my batteries but not on another. Time to buy a new one. I haven't tested it fully but it does appear to be just a display issue. Sometimes the bad battery will make the phone display 1% but it will still act as if it had way more than 1% charge left. I haven't done any testing on that regard but that's what it appears to do.
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Definitely a battery problem. This happens to me on one of my batteries but not on another. Time to buy a new one. I haven't tested it fully but it does appear to be just a display issue. Sometimes the bad battery will make the phone display 1% but it will still act as if it had way more than 1% charge left. I haven't done any testing on that regard but that's what it appears to do.
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I don't believe it to be a battery problem, because I've been on GB with absolutely no problems and exceptional battery... I just upgraded to ics not long ago, and the battery life instantly screwed up
Have you set the cpu governor to anything silly like performance?
Have you let it charge up fully at least once?
Search xda for "better battery stats" app, use it to see if you're getting deep sleep.
Flash hefe over release 8 and youll have a little better battery. Proton doesnt deep sleep
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Proton DOES deep sleep. That was one of its major features.
Certain scheduler/governor combinations work better on different kernels, though. If the specific one you like most sleeps better on Hefe, great. If the one you like does best on Proton, great. Just be aware that most issues are either physical or user-inflicted...
In this case, your battery is almost certainly dying. The variance in power over a reboot is a definite tell that your battery is probably swollen. If you can spin it on a table, the cells are starting to die. This does not mean you can't keep using it, but it does mean that your battery life will be irregular. It also means that you'll have significantly "higher" battery levels if you reboot the phone with external power connected, but the battery will discharge very quickly if it hasn't actually reached whatever level it believes it should be at.
Ive had my htc one x for maybe 5-6 months which is almost the longest ive ever been on one phone and i love(d) it, but its always been doing something very strange and aggravating that seems to be getting worse. Battery drain has always been a problem for me with this phone but ehh i can deal with it, but once my phone gets down to about 14% which is does often because of the draining it starts acting real funny with its power and sometimes goes from 14 down to 5 in an instant literally out of no where and as soon as i plug up itll go right back to 13, or itll shut down entirely at 14% but i can just cut it back on, or itll shut down in the middle of me doing something and i have to charge it for about 5-10 minutes before itll even come back on. The latter happened last night btw. No matter what combination of roms/kernels i try this always seems to be a problem. I really cant deal with this anymore and its to the point where i wanna throw my phone into a wall and just buy another one, which im seriously thinking about doing at this point. If such thing has happened to anyone before or you have insight on this can you please help before i just give up hope completely.
What you have described is normal for our device. Remember that the battery percentage is just an estimate of your actual charge. In addition, you find your phone shutting off around the lower percentages as a result of the device attempting to prevent damage to the battery. That is what the HOXl was designed to do.
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KungFuCracka94 said:
What you have described is normal for our device. Remember that the battery percentage is just an estimate of your actual charge. In addition, you find your phone shutting off around the lower percentages as a result of the device attempting to prevent damage to the battery. That is what the HOXl was designed to do.
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Last night when it did it, as it has before, i was still on 21%.... thats not normal. And this isnt my first android nor first htc, never happened before. Even on my aunts old one s it didnt happen
Do you allow full charges after these "forced shutdowns" occur? This should cause your battery to recalibrate.
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NexusS4gFreak said:
Last night when it did it, as it has before, i was still on 21%.... thats not normal. And this isnt my first android nor first htc, never happened before. Even on my aunts old one s it didnt happen
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The battery behavior on this phone has been interesting. I have the battery last over two weeks on airplane mode and I've had the battery last just a couple of hours with just a stock setup. There are so many factors that play into this. I work in an area with very little to no signal reception and my battery life goes crazy and the phone can get really hot while I'm there so I've seen the best and worst.
What I do to counteract this bad behavior:
1. Charge prior to 40% (I've had the phone go from 40% to zero instantly before)
2. Consider your signal reception and either try out different radios or use airplane mode to reduce erratic battery drain
3. Install a 3rd party app like batterycalibration (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en) and use that when things get hairy (I calibrate every two weeks or so and that does the trick for me.
My phone has been like this since I pulled it out of the box. With a little management, it is just fine. You have seen it before but I'll say it again, you have to get through a few charge cycles when flashing a new Rom to get back to normal.
Hope this helps. It works for me and I work in a cell phone reception hell.
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Ive had my htc one x for maybe 5-6 months which is almost the longest ive ever been on one phone and i love(d) it, but its always been doing something very strange and aggravating that seems to be getting worse. Battery drain has always been a problem for me with this phone but ehh i can deal with it, but once my phone gets down to about 14% which is does often because of the draining it starts acting real funny with its power and sometimes goes from 14 down to 5 in an instant literally out of no where and as soon as i plug up itll go right back to 13, or itll shut down entirely at 14% but i can just cut it back on, or itll shut down in the middle of me doing something and i have to charge it for about 5-10 minutes before itll even come back on. The latter happened last night btw. No matter what combination of roms/kernels i try this always seems to be a problem. I really cant deal with this anymore and its to the point where i wanna throw my phone into a wall and just buy another one, which im seriously thinking about doing at this point. If such thing has happened to anyone before or you have insight on this can you please help before i just give up hope completely.
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When a new ROM or kernel is flashed you need to let battery settle for at least 48hrs before you get super worried about battery. If possible during that time let device fully discharge then charge up to 100. Please use a battery monitoring app and then see what's causing the issues. With proper config hoxl will get good battery life. There is always the chance its hardware issue but doubtful as battery prolly would of completely failed by now. Also check your screen brightness settings. Hope this helps
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Madcat8686 said:
The battery behavior on this phone has been interesting. I have the battery last over two weeks on airplane mode and I've had the battery last just a couple of hours with just a stock setup. There are so many factors that play into this. I work in an area with very little to no signal reception and my battery life goes crazy and the phone can get really hot while I'm there so I've seen the best and worst.
What I do to counteract this bad behavior:
1. Charge prior to 40% (I've had the phone go from 40% to zero instantly before)
2. Consider your signal reception and either try out different radios or use airplane mode to reduce erratic battery drain
3. Install a 3rd party app like batterycalibration (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en) and use that when things get hairy (I calibrate every two weeks or so and that does the trick for me.
My phone has been like this since I pulled it out of the box. With a little management, it is just fine. You have seen it before but I'll say it again, you have to get through a few charge cycles when flashing a new Rom to get back to normal.
Hope this helps. It works for me and I work in a cell phone reception hell.
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Ive done all three methods youve mentioned before and still same thing. Also im on 3/4 bars with lte 90% of the time so no reception issues here. And with my current setup ive been running it for about 2 weeks.
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When a new ROM or kernel is flashed you need to let battery settle for at least 48hrs before you get super worried about battery. If possible during that time let device fully discharge then charge up to 100. Please use a battery monitoring app and then see what's causing the issues. With proper config hoxl will get good battery life. There is always the chance its hardware issue but doubtful as battery prolly would of completely failed by now. Also check your screen brightness settings. Hope this helps
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Ive always let the rom settle in and i constantly maintain the brightness on around mid level (mirror screen protector so i cant go too low) but its not just one rom or a few, its with every rom i flash ad that consists of most roms available for this device
The battery behaviour you described is completely normal if you understand how a battery of this type works, and if you understand how the software (especially the display of battery percentage) works in conjunction with it.
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The battery behaviour you described is completely normal if you understand how a battery of this type works, and if you understand how the software (especially the display of battery percentage) works in conjunction with it.
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So youre telling me having the phone get to 22% and instantly drop to zero and power down is normal? Makes no sense at all. Also i cant get it to charge too 100% for anything. So if theres no fix to this, anybody want a one x with a troublesome battery?
What I'm saying is the battery percentage displayed by the software is never exact, it's only an estimate based on the voltage level of your battery. Your battery sounds like its long term life (capacity) has been decreased over time and possibly bad treatment (allowing the device to discharge too much too many times).
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So youre telling me having the phone get to 22% and instantly drop to zero and power down is normal? Makes no sense at all.
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Depends on what you define as "normal". Such behavior is certainly not unheard of (although you particular collection of symptoms may point to a more serious issue, which I'll get to later). Couple things you have to remember: the battery meter is far from accurate. Being off by 10% or more is not unusual (completely normal). So jumping from 5 to 13% as you mentioned is not out of the question. The battery voltage is not actually jumping around, just the % battery number that the phone is assigning to various voltage readings. Reading errors happen, and if a jump is noticed, its just the meter correcting itself.
Which brings us to the other point that should be kept in mind: the battery % is not a "real" measurement. Its just a number assigned to various voltages to give the average person a sense of how much battery is left. Its a completely fabricated and artificial measure that just gives some relative sense of when a user should charge their battery. Phone makers just decided to use a system that average people would understand, like the fuel gauge on a car. Zero doesn't really mean zero (or anywhere close), but reporting in voltages would make no sense for most folks. Also, as we all well know, just because (for example) it took you 12 hours to drain the phone to 50%, does not necessarily mean the phone will last another 12 hours to drain the remaining 50%. It all depends on what you are doing with the phone during that time. Which leaves the question: What does the % battery really mean? Really, not a heck of a lot.
On the other hand, the battery failing to charge to 100% is troublesome, as is the apparent frequency of the meter drops and the fact that the issue remains after various ROM flashes. Leads me to believe there may be some hardware issue going on.
The short answer: IMO while some of the individual symptoms are not unusual, the seeming frequency (you haven't exactly quantified this, but it seems relative frequent just based on your descriptions) may suggest a larger issue, but its not certain.
Thanks it explained a lot but it happened again today, went to the store with ~36% on the meter and walked out, haven't touched it at all, phone was completely dead. Tried to charge and it went to 6% and stopped charging, all signs showed it was charging but it was stuck on 6. Then it started climbing again and reached about 16% and actually started losing charge while on the charger. Switched over to my portable battery charger i just got and it held the charge at about 5% for ~30 minutes, which is what it was when i plugged it in and started to charge, then it stopped againand during the whole process the phone was getting very hot. Yea im getting a new phone :/