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How is the battery on your transormer without the dock? How much hours of gaming can you get? Mine goes to about half after about 2 hours and a half of heavy use.
Probably 4-5 hours
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I'm finding my battery life poor. Is this just the way the TF300 is?
Asus says 10 hours, Engadget say just over 8 hours playing video at 50%.
I'm disappointed with mine I go down to below 30% after about 3 hours use constant usage easily. Even when it's asleep it takes a couple % down per hour.
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I'm finding my battery life poor. Is this just the way the TF300 is?
Asus says 10 hours, Engadget say just over 8 hours playing video at 50%.
I'm disappointed with mine I go down to below 30% after about 3 hours use constant usage easily. Even when it's asleep it takes a couple % down per hour.
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For the asleep part, it might help to turn on the setting to disconnect wifi while sleeping. I get extremely long battery life, but I also have very light usage because I work a lot. A lot of it could depend on what you are doing for that constant use. Also, are you rooted? and if so have you overclocked?
I'm frankly quite surprised at the poor battery life. I depleted the entire dock battery this morning by using it about 3 hours. The main tab battery is now at 80% so will probably last about another 3 hours or so on heavy usage. I'm not all that impressed at all on 6 hours of usage WITH the dock keyboard.
Originally this morning I actually thought something was wrong with my keyboard battery since it was depleting so fast, but I guess not... Wow.
What do the "balanced" ... "performance" settings in the menu actually do?
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TXKSSnapper said:
For the asleep part, it might help to turn on the setting to disconnect wifi while sleeping. I get extremely long battery life, but I also have very light usage because I work a lot. A lot of it could depend on what you are doing for that constant use. Also, are you rooted? and if so have you overclocked?
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Well my Wifi wake setting is set to never on when sleeping. I'm rooted but I've not overclocked. I just use the built in Asus model (eco, performance and balaned). It's normally on balanced.
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What do the "balanced" ... "performance" settings in the menu actually do?
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From what I've read Eco clocks the cpu at 600mhz, balanced at 1.2ghz and performance at 1.3ghz
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Jarm3r said:
I'm frankly quite surprised at the poor battery life. I depleted the entire dock battery this morning by using it about 3 hours. The main tab battery is now at 80% so will probably last about another 3 hours or so on heavy usage. I'm not all that impressed at all on 6 hours of usage WITH the dock keyboard.
Originally this morning I actually thought something was wrong with my keyboard battery since it was depleting so fast, but I guess not... Wow.
What do the "balanced" ... "performance" settings in the menu actually do?
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I dont even get 3 hours i think....
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Honestly, I've been pretty happy with mine. I just don't see any scenario in which I would drain the dock then drain the main battery and not see a whole day of usage. I just don't see myself doing 6 straight hours of heavy gaming.
Bare in mind that gaming is the most power consuming operation. 5-6 hours continuous gaming doesn't seem too bad to me.
What's the battery life like for internet browsing?
dsf3g said:
Honestly, I've been pretty happy with mine. I just don't see any scenario in which I would drain the dock then drain the main battery and not see a whole day of usage. I just don't see myself doing 6 straight hours of heavy gaming.
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Bare in mind that gaming is the most power consuming operation. 5-6 hours continuous gaming doesn't seem too bad to me.
What's the battery life like for internet browsing?
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Is that with or without dock?
My battery is currently at 35% and it has been 22 hours since I unplugged it from the charger. I have 4.5 hours of screen time which included heavy browsing and playing Draw Something. This is without the dock.
I am using the .29 build.prop mod as well as the Transformer overclock app (I forgot what it was called) that uses 1ghz for eco, 1.3 for balanced and 1.6 for performance. My setting has been on balanced.
Overall I'm happy with my battery life although I don't play much games on it. FYI I lost approximately 12% of battery life overnight. I don't remember the exact number so I'll check again tomorrow.
If you are rooted, maybe you should try the Battery Calibration app on the Play Market?
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Battery life at about 96% after about ten minutes of light use of the tablet for me. Not great...
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I can't say I'm very happy with the battery life of my TF300T (no dock)
It's stock ICS with the WW .29 firmware and powermanagement is set to balanced.
But I (also) think that there is a software thingy going on:
After a 100% charge I left it on standby/sleep from 8 in the morning untill 6 in the evening. 11 hours of standby mode alone drained almost 20% of the battery
I double checked the battery usage and indeed it's the idle mode that was so energy hungry.
I saw there is a MOD here at XDA that fixes the standby power consumption and I will be giving that a try for sure.
With normal use (no movies, just browsing, moving files around from and to my NAS, reading PDF's) it uses 50% in about 3 hours.
Playing movies (WIFI turned off) does about the same thing, so I guess it's mainly the screen that consumes all the energy.
I do not play games, so no experiences with that.
What I would like to try is to have PowerAmp play music, screen turned off and then see how much battery is used.
Recharging is pretty fast btw: The TF300T does a better job than my Desire S.
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Battery life at about 96% after about ten minutes of light use of the tablet for me. Not great...
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What do you consider light use? also, what is your screen brightness at?
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I get about 25-30 mins each 5% on light use. My brightness is never over 50% and I'm underclock to 880mhz, everything still runs smoothly. Also most of the time I'm on power saving mode. Also most of the time spent on those 30+mins were on Tapatalk with the dark theme, so there's no much power used for the background since its a dark grey color not bright white as the default.
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What do you consider light use? also, what is your screen brightness at?
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Screen brightness relatively high and a bit of browsing
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Screen brightness relatively high and a bit of browsing
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Screen Brightness can drain a battery pretty quickly. The only other things I can think of would be gps, or bluetooth being on. If you are rooted, you could underclock and get a lot better battery life that way.
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I get about 25-30 mins each 5% on light use. My brightness is never over 50% and I'm underclock to 880mhz, everything still runs smoothly. Also most of the time I'm on power saving mode. Also most of the time spent on those 30+mins were on Tapatalk with the dark theme, so there's no much power used for the background since its a dark grey color not bright white as the default.
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how do i get extended battery stats?
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The app I'm using is Badass battery monitor.
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I've had the tablet for nearly a month now and the best I've gotten is 5 hours on the dot from a full charge to discharge. My galaxy tab 10.1 that I sold to get this with the same usage patterns could give me around 8-9. Between 3 and 4 is what I normally get on the tf 300.
I don't really even play any games on it or movies. Its mostly web browsing that I do or watch flash videos through the browser like amazon prime shows. And I keep it at auto brightness (same as I did on the 10.1).
That seems low. I have not pushed mine yet but here is Mobiletechreview's comments on battery life " The tablet lasted us an average of 7.5 hours of actual use time with brightness set to 60% and WiFi on in a mix of web browsing, streaming YouTube videos, checking email and checking in with various social networks" Lisa is a credible reviewer. Auto brightness on this is not so accurate, try turning down brightness if you can, that will make a huge difference. Also, as updates come out I imagine new more power efficient kernels will come with them.
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I can definitely get 8 -10 hours from my device. That is one of the pluses at this point. Still experiencing some lag, but battery life is not a problem.
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Wow, what is your actual screen on time? What brightness level are you using? Have you done any kernel tweeks?
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OK, so now I am flashing ROMs here and there, am I right in saying that I need to keep my battery calibrated in the software? Does it need to know where 0% and 100% is eery time I flash a brand new ROM?
Thanks,
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OK, so now I am flashing ROMs here and there, am I right in saying that I need to keep my battery calibrated in the software? Does it need to know where 0% and 100% is eery time I flash a brand new ROM?
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My experience has been that you need to let the battery cycle through a few times (not to zero, though) and it will adjust. I'm not sure that calibration actually works. You could just flash a new rom when fully charged and wipe battery stats in "advanced" and that might help.
There's a nice app in the Play Store called Battery Calibration that will do this for. I run it after the first full charge after flashing a new rom.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration
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Why shouldn't I go right down to 0?
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mdemons12 said:
Why shouldn't I go right down to 0?
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I think that it's not good to discharge lithium ion batteries all the way...better to top them off.
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I think that it's not good to discharge lithium ion batteries all the way...better to top them off.
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IMO, Nothing wrong about it. As long as you don't do it every time you charge your tablet it won't kill your battery. It serves as a way to reset/resync your device. In my experience discharging it until the device auto shuts down then charge too 100% then use Battery Calibration has extended my playing time with my Infinity. The overall health of my battery is still very solid. I've been doing it like this for a couple of years now with all the tablets/phones I've owned.
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So what ya saying is let it played out til the battery dies couple time or what?
That's what I think you have to do, just so the software knows where 0% is
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dough30i said:
So what ya saying is let it played out til the battery dies couple time or what?
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Yes. Let it shut down on its own. For best result, once it shuts down plug it in. It will boot up. Turn off the screen and leave it charging till its at 100% You can then use Battery Calibration or unplug it. What I found out in my experience to keep the battery healthy after is to make sure to charge it within a certain percentage. For me I wait till 20% to charge sometimes 15% when I get a warning to plug it in. If whenever I mess up on a charge and it unplugs before a full charge, I will just leave it unplugged and discharge it once again.
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My experience has been that you need to let the battery cycle through a few times (not to zero, though) and it will adjust. I'm not sure that calibration actually works. You could just flash a new rom when fully charged and wipe battery stats in "advanced" and that might help.
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Wiping battery stats is completely useless. Here's a post from Dianne Hackborn official Android developer on this topic.
https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
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Well it seems to be getting a little better but still I am not looking at 9 hours and probably more like 6.5 which is far from what I would like. Would I keep just going from 100 to 0 until I see some good results ? Its getting to nearly a week old now and the battery is hardly any better than when I out it. I am sill thinking its cos I was flashing the rooms. Flashed to he Zeus and back a couple of times now. I am now on stock. I am pretty sure its not because I turned it straight on with the 15% they gave me and charged it from there instead of charging for 8 ours or whatever hey say.
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And to add to the problems, it seems Asus for the life of them cannot figure out how to attach a screen to the main body. Right down my left side is that annoying clicking noise, worse than my second prime, not as bad as he first. Tap the home button, squeak, anywhere in the top left corner, squeak. So annoying. I guess I will just have to see how it pans out because even though unlocking the deice has nothing to do with this, my warranty is gone. Maybe someone will figure out how to open the device and figure out how to reattach the screen. 3 tablets, same problem, just ridiculous.
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And to add to the problems, it seems Asus for the life of them cannot figure out how to attach a screen to the main body. Right down my left side is that annoying clicking noise, worse than my second prime, not as bad as he first. Tap the home button, squeak, anywhere in the top left corner, squeak. So annoying. I guess I will just have to see how it pans out because even though unlocking the deice has nothing to do with this, my warranty is gone. Maybe someone will figure out how to open the device and figure out how to reattach the screen. 3 tablets, same problem, just ridiculous.
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Its not a matter of figuring it out. Its just like the Prime on how to open it. The question is, who is willing to open there Infinity. Erusman, from the Prime forum undertook that and in the end was able to fix light bleed and modded his tablet for better wifi/gps. Although it kinda looks like Frankenstein, it worked. The light bleeding was just a matter of the screws all along the display was too tight which caused stress on the screen. After he loosened the screws, it eliminated the light bleed completely. I'm pretty sure it is the same situation with our Infinity's.
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Aside from that shocking problem, here are my current battery stats. It seems extremely quick to charge. I though it was supposed to take at least 3 hours. I seem to be well under that.
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Yes. Let it shut down on its own. For best result, once it shuts down plug it in. It will boot up. Turn off the screen and leave it charging till its at 100% You can then use Battery Calibration or unplug it. What I found out in my experience to keep the battery healthy after is to make sure to charge it within a certain percentage. For me I wait till 20% to charge sometimes 15% when I get a warning to plug it in. If whenever I mess up on a charge and it unplugs before a full charge, I will just leave it unplugged and discharge it once again.
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In 4 to 5 hrs the most that's when I watch movie and TV straight full charge and even in power saving mode 30% dim no blue tooth sync off, I thought I were getting 8hrs, nope I was wrong, unless I'm doing something wrong here or need calibrating the battery right idk.
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Wiping battery stats is completely useless. Here's a post from Dianne Hackborn official Android developer on this topic.
https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
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Looks like you and I are alone in this forum on this. I have tried explaining this to people around the web but no one listens. Check how everyone just ignored your post. Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
It's simply reading the voltage from the battery, and that's it. There's no magic behind it. Calibration is useless.
So why do batteries need to be worn n after new roms?
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IMO, Nothing wrong about it. As long as you don't do it every time you charge your tablet it won't kill your battery. It serves as a way to reset/resync your device. In my experience discharging it until the device auto shuts down then charge too 100% then use Battery Calibration has extended my playing time with my Infinity. The overall health of my battery is still very solid. I've been doing it like this for a couple of years now with all the tablets/phones I've owned.
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There is something wrong about it. Li-Ion batteries lose max capactiy every time you let them go down to 0%. You should only fully cycle 1 time upon receiving your TF700 in order to calibrate the battery. After that, you should always top off.
Case in point: my dock maxes out at 96-97% now after being dissipated down to 0% about 10-20 times. My Tablet however still goes to the full 100%. My old Samsung Netbook had its Li-Ion battery completely discharged on accident for about a month when I was on vacation. It lost like 10% of its rated run-time when I recharged it. Do NOT let your Li-Ion batteries go to 0% if you can avoid it.
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Looks like you and I are alone in this forum on this. I have tried explaining this to people around the web but no one listens. Check how everyone just ignored your post. Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
It's simply reading the voltage from the battery, and that's it. There's no magic behind it. Calibration is useless.
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Well you know everyone likes to believe that some fairy dust makes their phone faster .
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I heard that it doesn't discharge to 0% it shuts down before it gets to low to function. Your right one or two times is plenty good enough.
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Hi guys, i think the title is self explainatory. According to battery stats my wifi uses 86% of my battery while my screen only uses 7%. Ive also read that a lot of people have the same issue. Has any fix come up lately that corrects this?
I think just the battery stats are displaying that wrong.
For me it showed that too but when my tablet was on standby with wifi on it barely drained any battery (~0,1 %/ hour).
I am now on jb (cm10 alpha) and wifi doesnt evenshow up any more on battery stats any more.
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Well I'm sure its killing my battery. When wifi isn't on and im watching video's or playing games, battery drain is great, roughly about1% every 5 minutes. When wifi is on, it loses roughly 5% every 5 minutes. A very noticeable change
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Well I'm sure its killing my battery. When wifi isn't on and im watching video's or playing games, battery drain is great, roughly about1% every 5 minutes. When wifi is on, it loses roughly 5% every 5 minutes. A very noticeable change
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So, with wifi on, you go dead in 100 minutes?
If that's the case, there is definitely something wrong with your pad. I've always got my wifi on, and unplug it in the morning. By the evening when I plug back in I am rarely under 15%.
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So, with wifi on, you go dead in 100 minutes?
If that's the case, there is definitely something wrong with your pad. I've always got my wifi on, and unplug it in the morning. By the evening when I plug back in I am rarely under 15%.
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um... yea you might want to do you math again there buddy...
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pierrekid said:
um... yea you might want to do you math again there buddy...
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Who, me?
Bigred007 said:
Who, me?
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lol yea you, do you know how long it takes a tf700 to die it goes down at 1% every 5 minutes?
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lol yea you, do you know how long it takes a tf700 to die it goes down at 1% every 5 minutes?
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You may want to read more carefully before busting someone's balls...
He said that with wifi on, it goes down 5% every 5 minutes.
5%/5 minutes = 1%/1 minute = 100%/ 100 minutes.
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Well I'm sure its killing my battery. When wifi isn't on and im watching video's or playing games, battery drain is great, roughly about1% every 5 minutes. When wifi is on, it loses roughly 5% every 5 minutes. A very noticeable change
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So, with wifi on, you go dead in 100 minutes?
If that's the case, there is definitely something wrong with your pad. I've always got my wifi on, and unplug it in the morning. By the evening when I plug back in I am rarely under 15%.
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well according to this quote moron your math is wrong. You might want to read what you write before you post
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pierrekid said:
well according to this quote moron your math is wrong. You might want to read what you write before you post
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Principal: Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Billy Madison: Okay, a simple "wrong" would've done just fine.
From what I can tell, the battery screen isn't displaying the actual drainage, but in fact shows the distribution of the drainage over the running processes.
(Because there is no way my screen is draining 54% of my actual battery charge whilst set to power saving 10% brightness... which it has been on for 38 hours so far, and it's still on 90%.)
WiFi 99% doesn't mean it's draining a whole lot of your battery in one go. It just means that, out of all the prcesses currently using battery, the WiFi uses 99% of the totally used battery. This may still be 2% in half an hour (I'm not quite certain on the rates), but of that 2%, 99% is the WiFi.
Doesn't mean the thing isn't completely silly. Mine right now says "Screen 54, Idle 23, Media 11, Mxplayer 9, System 3, Os 2" Which, unless both my brain and my calculator are wrong, is 102%....
I have a question, when I have my TF700 connected to mobile dock, I just don't seem to get 9hrs of extra battery life as the dock claims. Also when I close it shut, it 'seems' to go into hibernation properly. But when I wake up the next morning, the battery on both the tablet and the dock are almost totally drained? Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Sounds like you have a rogue app that is constantly using the battery. What do your battery stats say?
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Sounds like you have a rogue app that is constantly using the battery. What do your battery stats say?
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My battery stats are normal. When I'm not connected to the dock, it seems fine, normal battery drain.
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Hmm... Ever used an usb ethernet adapter, by any change? Mine does this when I've used it it and forgot to turn off 'keep during sleep'.
I think I've fixed the issue. I simply reflashed my rom, and the problem is gone. I did however check my battery stats and found nothing out of the normal
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My battery stats are normal. When I'm not connected to the dock, it seems fine, normal battery drain.
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Did you check for any rogue apps running in the background?