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Is my phone or battery crazy?

Guys, I need some help. My four days old sensation is acting crazy. After every charge, the battery level does not change for some time. Like, today, took phone of the charger at 8 am and I used it for browsing the net for like 2 hours. The first time it moved was at like 1pm to 97%. After this, the battery started to go down somewhat . When I got home at 6pm, it was at 65%.
As I'm typing this right now, I took the phone off the charger at 79% , been using it for an hour straight , yet still shows 79%. Is this normal behavior for this phone? Anyone else have the same issue? Should I exchange this phone with another new one at walmart?
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mike2518 said:
Guys, I need some help. My four days old sensation is acting crazy. After every charge, the battery level does not change for some time. Like, today, took phone of the charger at 8 am and I used it for browsing the net for like 2 hours. The first time it moved was at like 1pm to 97%. After this, the battery started to go down somewhat . When I got home at 6pm, it was at 65%.
As I'm typing this right now, I took the phone off the charger at 79% , been using it for an hour straight , yet still shows 79%. Is this normal behavior for this phone? Anyone else have the same issue? Should I exchange this phone with another new one at walmart?
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So to sum up... My battery is amazing!!! Should I trade it in and hope for one that dies faster?

mpjohns3 said:
So to sum up... My battery is amazing!!! Should I trade it in and hope for one that dies faster?
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Lol, I get your point, but my main concern is that is this normal? Shouldn't it go down gradually from the beginning? Like just right now, its been off the charger for an hour and half, and just now it has moved for the first time from 79 to 77. And I've been using it non-stop during that time.
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Mine stays at a hundred for longer than usual but nothing like this.... I want this problem.
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I think it's a problem to do with the software and battery stats. Other people have reported this issue (there was a thread about it sometime ago, if I can I'll find it). Maybe when we get root and clear the battery stats through Recovery we'll see it go back to normal. Or maybe a ROM such as CM7 will solve it.
Or maybe you do just have an amazing battery

It seems i'm having the same issue. Battery is stuck at 100 and battery voltage shown is actually rising.
When i charged my Sensation for the first time, it ended with completely discharged and overheated battery. Phone told me that i should have used only original charger and then restarted. The charger included looked original to me
I charged my phone from PC USB port and it worked until now. I just charged again with the included charger and now it's stuck at 100.
I don't know what to do now, my Sensation doesn't have any of the many other problems reported here, so i'm not sure i really want to get a replacement. Can this be a problem with the battery or is it phone hardware? I can't believe it's software...

Battery 100% charged?

So I read that a ton of ppl has issues hitting 100% battery charge, I'm also seem to be having the issue till I got and played Plants vs Zombies...after like 1 hour playing I was about to turn on the alarm and hit the bed and I just noticed my battery level, 100%....so I thought that it was an error and I locked the phone just to see on the lock screen "charged"....btw, when I started playing the battery was at around 92% and I've never seen 100% before on my NS.
How many ppl is able to get their phones to fully charge to 100%? and, does any of u installed or did anything in particular to fix the issue?

Hm, only had mine 2 weeks and have yet to get a 100. My epic would but it was a faux 100 if anything as it. Would drop down to around 98-96 immediately.
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fenrry said:
So I read that a ton of ppl has issues hitting 100% battery charge, I'm also seem to be having the issue till I got and played Plants vs Zombies...after like 1 hour playing I was about to turn on the alarm and hit the bed and I just noticed my battery level, 100%....so I thought that it was an error and I locked the phone just to see on the lock screen "charged"....btw, when I started playing the battery was at around 92% and I've never seen 100% before on my NS.
How many ppl is able to get their phones to fully charge to 100%? and, does any of u installed or did anything in particular to fix the issue?
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Only way to hit 100% is to use an external battery charger.
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.elondra.nexusscharger&feature=search_result
you can use that if u really want too get too 100% i used for a few weeks then just stopped caring. Its just the way samsung programmed it to pro long the overall life of the battery.

Yeah, mine caps at 95% normally. Might have a look at that program. How much shorter would battery life be if we let it charge to 100%?

If you leave the screen on (by any means, whether you were playing game, which requires you to have the screen on, or change the setting to have screen always on), it will charge to 100%.

will the battery life shorter with this trick or using that app to force to charging completely ?

Its not an issue. Samsung designed it that way. Its to help keep the battery healthy and extend its life.
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I honestly don't see it being noticeably shorter life span. We keep phones for a max of 2 years now days. I rather have a full battery now then it last an extra few months. Battery's are cheap so we dont need them to last forever .

Well, I have used the phone while connected to the charger but never passed 96%, only after playing PvsZ I got the 100% and then the number went down till 96% and stayed that way after I closed the game.

fenrry said:
Well, I have used the phone while connected to the charger but never passed 96%, only after playing PvsZ I got the 100% and then the number went down till 96% and stayed that way after I closed the game.
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ya the only time ive ever seen a phone stick on 100% for longer then 10 minutes is using SBC kernels

jietzer said:
ya the only time ive ever seen a phone stick on 100% for longer then 10 minutes is using SBC kernels
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I'm running Formels MIUI, it comes with Pete#5....still....gonna test again with PvsZ in a bit, rt now the phone has been steady at 96% for the past 2 hours....man gotta sleep soon also...
***Update: PvsZ does work to go pass the 96%, I hit another 100%....

How many times is this very topic going to be discussed? And with all the info on xda, why is there so much false/incorrect information in this thread?
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Screen turning on and off while using YouTube and gaming

Help me with this issue my phone keep turning the screen off very often and it happens everytime I connect my charger. I'm getting very sick of it because it really annoy me. I'm not sure it there is a problem with unlocking button or is it a software related. But it is dead annoying. I'm running arhd 3.6.8 and while I wrote all this my phone turned the screen of 5 times.
Due to my battery life is very bad I have to charge it like 3 times in a day and my full battery last like 2 hours. Please help me with this issue.
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The reason I mentioned about my battery life is because since I have to leave my phone on charge all day and I'm using it at the same time this problem occur. But when I'm not charging my phone it happens like 1 or twice but on charge it happens like every 5-10 to 30 seconds so in a minute it happens like 10 times atleast
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Some more crazy battery antics

So a couple weeks ago I went to bed with my phone unplugged with maybe 80% juice left. Woke up, phone was completely dead and refused to turn on, even after sitting on a charger for 20 minutes. The only way I was able to get it to boot was through recovery. I checked my battery stats and it showed that it dropped steadily to maybe 65% over the course of 4 hours and then dropped straight to zero from 65%. I chalked it up to issues with my ROM because I was having other quirks here and there. The other day I flashed CleanROM 4.5 and everything was gravy. I also flashed the radio from 2.20 and had great signal and LTE speed increases after the flash.
Last night I decided to see how well my phone was sleeping so I took it off the charger at about 11 with 100% charge. When I unplugged it the phone was very warm and was reading about 110 F. I killed everything just to be safe. This morning at 8 my phone was down from full to 75%. WTF. I used to lose MAYBE 2% over night so 25% is a massive drop for me. I plugged it in to my MBP to charge (like I always do) and as soon as I did I got a warning message saying my phone was using more current than the charger could output and the battery dropped instantly from 75% to 18%. I am going to flash a different radio but I am not hopeful that it will solve this considering it has happened with two completely different ROM/Radio combos. I have checked betterbatterystats and even had system panel on monitor all night and nothing was out of the ordinary. Cell standby was at the top of the list in the stock battery stats but that seems normal to me considering I didn't turn the screen on once. There was no time without signal. Has anyone else experienced this issue? What do you guys think- hardware or software?

Couple weeks ago, sometime after flashing the rooted stock 2.23 and 2.23 radio, I had the issue of the battery being dead overnight. It was something like 70% when I went to bed, so I was surprised it died. I typically get more drainage while idle than you, but still usually only 2 to 3% per hour. Even less on the 2.23 radio, around 1.5% (or less) an hour while idle.
Hasn't happened since. I'm still wondering what happened?

This happened to me once as well, dropped from 70% to completely dead overnight. I could not figure out why, but it hasn't recurred.

It's a virus!
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I'm having a ton of awake time with very little screen on time when using aokp/cm10.
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Yeah I have no idea what's going on. Now it seems to be fine, and I haven't done anything to it yet. Took it off the charger at noon with about 80% on it, now it's almost 9 and I'm at 65% with 33min screen time and 30 minutes of voice calls. Pretty good for only a 15% drop. Really confused. Gonna charge it up all the way and unplug it again before bed to see if the same thing happens again.
ECEXCURSION said:
It's a virus!
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Oh noes! Maybe I should get an iPhone?!

_MetalHead_ said:
Oh noes! Maybe I should get an iPhone?!
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Definatly.
My battery has been absolute crap the last 2 days but that's just from installing google now I think. Going to have to revert to my backup soon.

Last night I went to bed with 83%, woke up 7 hours later with the same 83%. This is madness I tell you. Madness.

Just my hunch, a dead vertical drop on the battery meter (you mentioned it had dropped straight from 65% to zero?) is just an error in the meter reading, and the "later" reading is the correction. I would think such an instantaneous (or near instantaneous) drop in actual voltage is improbable, if not impossible. But I'm just a dump civil engineer, not an electrical.
I've seen a vertical drop once. Others have reported seeing it repeatedly. In those cases, a factory reset seems to fix it, but flashing a ROM (with the usual data and cache wipes) would seem to do the same.

I've seen it twice now, across two different ROM/radio configs. I'll just chalk them up to random flukes and go about my merry way.

_MetalHead_ said:
I've seen it twice now, across two different ROM/radio configs. I'll just chalk them up to random flukes and go about my merry way.
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[Completed] Samsung Galaxy s4 battery strange behavior

First of all, hi, thank you for reading this
So I have an s4, i9505 and the stock battery, but I noticed something that causes me a lot of problems...
My battery simply starts to output way, way too much, making the phone hot to touch, sometimes even as much as to irritate my finger and the battery doesn't last half an hour afterwards
Rebooting or removing the battery for a bit doesn't help, the drain just continues after reboot or battery being put back in after 10 minutes
But I had nights where from 10pm to 7am I would listen to amped music (dsp manager on almost max equalizer, slight compression and strongest sound compensation) and it seems like the battery was being used so it didn't overdrain, in those 9 or so hours of almost max volume I only lost 11% battery and the WiFi was on, normally I'd sleep with WiFi off and it would loose 60% in only 8 hours.
I don't know what to do, sometimes my battery lasts over 24 hours of use, sometimes it struggles to last 2 on standby
I have two batteries and I charge them with an external charger because charging the phone directly doesn't even work, it usually looses more in the heat than it charges.
Also the batteries seem to be such bad quality that they charge fully but they're actually at about 88-91% each time, and sometimes they die at 0, sometimes at even 60!!!! It's horrible and I want to know if I somehow screwed up those batteries or what happened, but the heat needs to stop now!
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Oh and one thing I forgot to mention - if I start any bigger games like terraria, same happens, but it didn't use to before
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Update: a 100% battery just lasted 15 minutes and died at 62%, I really need help and quick
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MM.626 said:
i think the battery is too old, mine happened before too, my screen even flicker at around 40% battery. buy a new battery and the problems will go away.
or maybe is software problem, backup photos/videos to cloud or pc, reflash to stock and wipe internal sd, cache, everything, and use it for a few days if problem still there, then it is battery problem.
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thank you so much for your reply
My screen also started flickering recently, thank you for the advice ^^ also, any ideas other than being old that you'd suspect? Maybe getting wet or too hot too often?
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MM.626 said:
i usually bring my phone to bath and its overclocked and that's no problem
#are you using the stock charger?
edit: try using stock charger
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Haha, writing this while in a bath... Thanks again, you're awesome ^^
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Harmonised said:
First of all, hi, thank you for reading this
So I have an s4, i9505 and the stock battery, but I noticed something that causes me a lot of problems...
My battery simply starts to output way, way too much, making the phone hot to touch, sometimes even as much as to irritate my finger and the battery doesn't last half an hour afterwards
Rebooting or removing the battery for a bit doesn't help, the drain just continues after reboot or battery being put back in after 10 minutes
But I had nights where from 10pm to 7am I would listen to amped music (dsp manager on almost max equalizer, slight compression and strongest sound compensation) and it seems like the battery was being used so it didn't overdrain, in those 9 or so hours of almost max volume I only lost 11% battery and the WiFi was on, normally I'd sleep with WiFi off and it would loose 60% in only 8 hours.
I don't know what to do, sometimes my battery lasts over 24 hours of use, sometimes it struggles to last 2 on standby
I have two batteries and I charge them with an external charger because charging the phone directly doesn't even work, it usually looses more in the heat than it charges.
Also the batteries seem to be such bad quality that they charge fully but they're actually at about 88-91% each time, and sometimes they die at 0, sometimes at even 60!!!! It's horrible and I want to know if I somehow screwed up those batteries or what happened, but the heat needs to stop now!
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