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Battery discrepancy between booted and 4EXT

Noticed this morning after a full night of charging that when booting into recovery my battery says it is only at 81%. When I was booted into my ROM the screen read fully charged! I wiped battery stats YESTERDAY. Can anyone tell em what I might be seeing here?
Running KANG 4.1.1 8-12 build and using 4EXT. Stock kernel.

shahkam said:
Yeah I think recovery has some issue reading the battery ..
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It just got a little weirder...
So first the phone said full and recovery said 71, went ahead and wiped battery stats again and rebooted the phone. After that they matched. I turned my phone off to let it charge up a little faster. When I rebooted I went straight to recovery where it said full, a welcome change to my previous issue. But then when I booted up, my battery was LOWER THAN BEFORE! Down to 68%?!?! All this after a good 20 minutes of phone off charging.
Maybe I'm worried about nothing, but the phone is over a year old now. Is it time for a new battery? Or do you still think it is just a number and there is nothing to worry about?

awacker89 said:
It just got a little weirder...
So first the phone said full and recovery said 71, went ahead and wiped battery stats again and rebooted the phone. After that they matched. I turned my phone off to let it charge up a little faster. When I rebooted I went straight to recovery where it said full, a welcome change to my previous issue. But then when I booted up, my battery was LOWER THAN BEFORE! Down to 68%?!?! All this after a good 20 minutes of phone off charging.
Maybe I'm worried about nothing, but the phone is over a year old now. Is it time for a new battery? Or do you still think it is just a number and there is nothing to worry about?
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Can you please google the "Deleting battery stats myth android" and then read the google plus post by the google engineer.
Wiping battery stats doesnt solve/create any issues, it gets deleted everytime phone is charged to ~90% by the OS anyway

I'd love to take a look at that, although I gotta say I'm positive after the way the rest of my morning went that there is definitely SOMETHING going on. After repeating this full battery followed by a stats wipe again I was at 82% immediately after the power up and it took 3 hours to reach fully charged status again. Oh well, I can see I've irritated someone so I'll just sleep well in the fact that my phone is running like a dream on JB, strange battery stats aside.
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awacker89 said:
I'd love to take a look at that, although I gotta say I'm positive after the way the rest of my morning went that there is definitely SOMETHING going on. After repeating this full battery followed by a stats wipe again I was at 82% immediately after the power up and it took 3 hours to reach fully charged status again. Oh well, I can see I've irritated someone so I'll just sleep well in the fact that my phone is running like a dream on JB, strange battery stats aside.
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Recovery and OS always report slightly different values. I would take the recovery as the true value but after ~5 of the OS booted the battery level quickly drops to the same level as the recovery, closer to the true value

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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My S3 battery dies at around 20% on the regular? wtf

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.

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
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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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Battery issues

Over the time that I've owned my GS3, I've finally began to notice that it takes longer and longer to charge my S3 and it discharges pretty quickly too. Anyone have a solution to this?
NOTE: I've pulled my battery already, wiped the cache and dalvik cache, reflashed my ROM twice, flashed 3 different ROMs (which were known for battery life and let them settle for 2 days), fixed permissions, etc. I even wiped my battery stats in case that was the issue too. Still takes about 4 hours to charge my phone through a wall outlet.

david_hume said:
Over the time that I've owned my GS3, I've finally began to notice that it takes longer and longer to charge my S3 and it discharges pretty quickly too. Anyone have a solution to this?
NOTE: I've pulled my battery already, wiped the cache and dalvik cache, reflashed my ROM twice, flashed 3 different ROMs (which were known for battery life and let them settle for 2 days), fixed permissions, etc. I even wiped my battery stats in case that was the issue too. Still takes about 4 hours to charge my phone through a wall outlet.
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Try an alternate charger?

I've noticed this as well as much as I charge my phone it will never charge anymore while using it, instead I'll lose battery little by little. I'm starting to thinking it's either the phone getting old of the battery or the mf1 rpm but if someone has mb1 and can confirm that it happens to them as well then that's knocked off.
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Addiso said:
I've noticed this as well as much as I charge my phone it will never charge anymore while using it, instead I'll lose battery little by little. I'm starting to thinking it's either the phone getting old of the battery or the mf1 rpm but if someone has mb1 and can confirm that it happens to them as well then that's knocked off.
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I thought I was the only one with the battery draining issue. Lol. I think it's just the phone. I'm using the MK1 modem and it never happened in the past and now Ir's beginning to happen to me.
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Same thing happened to me.I wiped the internal card and did a clean flash of liquid smooth and it charges just fine and discharges normally,I do have the zerolemon
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david_hume said:
Over the time that I've owned my GS3, I've finally began to notice that it takes longer and longer to charge my S3 and it discharges pretty quickly too. Anyone have a solution to this?
NOTE: I've pulled my battery already, wiped the cache and dalvik cache, reflashed my ROM twice, flashed 3 different ROMs (which were known for battery life and let them settle for 2 days), fixed permissions, etc. I even wiped my battery stats in case that was the issue too. Still takes about 4 hours to charge my phone through a wall outlet.
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Batteries don;t last forever, you failed to mention how old your device is, but a Lion battery has about max, 500 cycles before its garbage. It may not die all at once, they start deteriorating and lose capacity an start to get hot when they charge. Batteries are cheap. If yours is getting old and tired, Try a new one.
There are also some apps out there that can tell you the condition of your battery.

DigitalMD said:
Batteries don;t last forever, you failed to mention how old your device is, but a Lion battery has about max, 500 cycles before its garbage. It may not die all at once, they start deteriorating and lose capacity an start to get hot when they charge. Batteries are cheap. If yours is getting old and tired, Try a new one.
There are also some apps out there that can tell you the condition of your battery.
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If it really matters, the phone itself is around a year old at this point in time. Normally, I would accept that to be the case, except I've seen reports of the S3s having charging problems due to something that has to do with the charger.
Problem's already been solved though. Switched my OEM Samsung charging adaptor with an LG one and it's all good (still using the stock Samsung cable though since there no problem with it)
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