I've recently noticed that my 3 month old Razr HD drops the first 5% in a couple of hours, and when I get to around 14%, I lose the next 10% in about 30 minutes.
The funny thing is my phone can stay at 1-2% for another 30-120 minutes. Yesterday I got home at 1% and 2 hours later the battery notification light was still flashing at me to plug it in at 1%. It literally powered off as I was plugging in the AC adapter.
So I ask, are many people using a battery calibration app? If so, which and what are your results.
biKF said:
I've recently noticed that my 3 month old Razr HD drops the first 5% in a couple of hours, and when I get to around 14%, I lose the next 10% in about 30 minutes.
The funny thing is my phone can stay at 1-2% for another 30-120 minutes. Yesterday I got home at 1% and 2 hours later the battery notification light was still flashing at me to plug it in at 1%. It literally powered off as I was plugging in the AC adapter.
So I ask, are many people using a battery calibration app? If so, which and what are your results.
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I use Battery Calibration by NeMa, works great... I usually use it every month or so, and I let the battery drain all the way first, then charge it to 100% and use the app. Unplug my phone and reboot. I have been using this app for years and its been working great, I have a Razr HD now also and of course you need root.
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Hey guys, I have a problem with my Sensation. Whenever I fully charge it and then remove it from the charger, use it for like an hour or two, the phone still thinks the battery is 100% charged. When looking inside the battery usage, it shows the graph with 0s underneath it, while in the previous screen where you see the apps battery usage it says 2h 5m 13s or something like that.
This wouldn't really be a problem, but when I started up Maps Navigation and plugged the charger in the car, it wouldn't charge because it still assumed the battery was 100% charged!
Any of you also having this problem? Thanks in advance!
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Hey guys, I have a problem with my Sensation. Whenever I fully charge it and then remove it from the charger, use it for like an hour or two, the phone still thinks the battery is 100% charged. When looking inside the battery usage, it shows the graph with 0s underneath it, while in the previous screen where you see the apps battery usage it says 2h 5m 13s or something like that.
This wouldn't really be a problem, but when I started up Maps Navigation and plugged the charger in the car, it wouldn't charge because it still assumed the battery was 100% charged!
Any of you also having this problem? Thanks in advance!
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Does it stay 100% forever? Then you may have the inexhaustible battery... (not sure if this is grammaticaly correct )
I wouldn't consider this a problem. You can download a battery monitoring app from the market and see what's going on with your phone and if the 100% that it's rerporting is correct. Also, check that the battery contacts are clean.
Not sure my phone does that but it can be on half charge then when I reset phone it's gone up a notch. This morning it didn't look like it had charged although it had been plugged in. When I switched it was on orange then it did the charging animation for a few seconds without charger plugged in then stopped on full. Odd.
Mine stays on 100% for a couple of hours too, has done since I got it.
I think perhaps HTC are "cheating" (or using "creative coding", whichever expression you prefer) in the way they report the battery percentage. Make the battery appear better than it is. Just a theory, of course.
This morning it didn't look likeit had charged although it had been plugged in. When I switched it was on orange then it did the charging animation for a few seconds without charger plugged in then stopped on full. Odd
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That happens to me a lot too. Woke up this morning, phone had been charging for nearly 5 hours, but was only on 82%. After a couple of minutes of the screen being on, it had leapt to 100% and stopped charging.
Also, once the battery is below about 20%, it will sometimes drop 2-3% at a time. Odd.
Looks like they totally screwed the battery meter hardware or something in the software. Remembers me of my iPod touch
Experienced the say.. hopefully either it will auto be fine due to charge cycle or via updates
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The Battery driver that LG used for the G2X has the same problem,a simple reboot fixes it,hope this helps "temporarily" that is.Cheers
Not just the sensation - my wildfire does the same yet my galaxy tab doesnt
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sjgore said:
Mine stays on 100% for a couple of hours too, has done since I got it.
I think perhaps HTC are "cheating" (or using "creative coding", whichever expression you prefer) in the way they report the battery percentage. Make the battery appear better than it is. Just a theory, of course..
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Thanks for your answer, so it's probably a general problem that may be fixed by either HTC or the Cooks that make ROM's for our beautiful new phones
Can you tell me how long it takes for your phone to fully charge?My phone needs 3-4 hours to fully charge..is this normal?!
Hmm mine doesn`t lag but it takes times to charge. Usually with my hd2 take around less than 2 hours to fully charge now with sensation around 3 hours
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Using it almost half an hour,battery felt from 100% to 99%...And I checked the battery useage,it isn't wrong..
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Although it is dual core,I think the battery life is much better than DHD..
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I received my phone yesterday and charged it for 4-5 hours throughout the day. Last night it was close to 100% while I was playing with it (off the charger). I then charged it over night for 9 hours. This morning the battery says it's at 50% but has 15 hours left.
Weird :\
Charge the battery with the power turned off overnight, in the morning unplug the charger, turn the phone on, and shutdown again, and plug the charger back for 30
mins phone still turned off. After that start using the phone normally, this way you calibrate the phones battery meter properly.
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Charge the battery with the power turned off overnight, in the morning unplug the charger, turn the phone on, and shutdown again, and plug the charger back for 30
mins phone still turned off. After that start using the phone normally, this way you calibrate the phones battery meter properly.
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Thanks mate! I'll do that tonight
Guys,
Was just wondering. how long is the battery taking to charge.. from the DHD, Iphone4, HD2.. they would pop to 100 within a couple of hours or so.. (NORMAL!!!)
This sensation... from 31% to 83% in 2.5 hours.. this is longer than i thought...
Mine took a whole 3 hours to go from 9% to 100%
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Guys,
Was just wondering. how long is the battery taking to charge.. from the DHD, Iphone4, HD2.. they would pop to 100 within a couple of hours or so.. (NORMAL!!!)
This sensation... from 31% to 83% in 2.5 hours.. this is longer than i thought...
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I had similar problem yesterday. It sticked with %89 then I unpluged the charger and rebooted the phone. This time it says %100. Looks like there is a problem with calculation of percentage.
Yeah...mine takes a really long time to charge. I know lithium ion batteries charge slowly after it reaches 80%, but it still seems a lot slower than my previous phone.
yeah.. i rebooted and it was up to 99%.. strange. although it drained very quickly back to 87%... since been 3 hours and its not down to 77%.. so i think it is settling.. maybe an update
Desparately awaiting the root so all these irritating bugs can be addressed
mine took 4 hours yesterday....
Same puy my phone on charging in the afternoon at 10% and 3 hours later it was 75% which is not bad but still slower then usual
I plugged mine into a wall charger at 10 pm last night. At 6 am it was still showing charging and not full. Has to be a software bug. No way it can charge for 8+ hours and not be fully charged.
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I plugged mine into a wall charger at 10 pm last night. At 6 am it was still showing charging and not full. Has to be a software bug. No way it can charge for 8+ hours and not be fully charged.
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i agree... i hope this gets fixed...
well, I have started using a new different wire to charge which is not from samsung brand. And it is working very well like the original one.
Did you try to delete battery stats from recovery?
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Did you try to delete battery stats from recovery?
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Normally 3 hour -4 tried to use another charger or cable
Sometimes it takes longer if you charge it with USB on some PCs USB ports.
Hey Guys
I bought my HTC Sensation about 3-4 days ago. No root, No S-OFF. For past few days, i followed battery charging procedure, drained battery completely, left phone off, and charged it. I did same procedure few times. Doing this procedure really improved battery life on HTC Incredible S.
Anyway, last night, battery was running low 30% after 14 hr use. I needed alarm for morning so, at 10pm i plug phone to charger and left it on. 4:30 am, got up, and orange led light (charger indicator) still on. Check phone, and it still charging. Checked battery and it shows 50% charge. Anyway unplugged it, fetched to work put on charge, after about 1.30 hr still at 60%.
Decided to restart phone, as soon i did restart, battery went back to 100%.
Does anyone experienced this?
Nope, that sounds weird. I would suggest battery calibration for you if this is a reoccuring thing.
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Do i need S-OFF or rooting to get battery calibrated?
Is any other way to get it calibrated without root or S-OFF?
Oh crap. I think you do need to be rooted to use the calibration app. My bad. Try using the search button? I would do it, but I'm not on my computer now.
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My battery took forever to charge the 1st couple of times... After about 3/4 charges it sorted itselft out. Good luck
I am kinder hoping it was one of software glitch, hopefully it won't happen again. Will report back after few more charge cycles.
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My battery took forever to charge the 1st couple of times... After about 3/4 charges it sorted itselft out. Good luck
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Mine also took a long time the first few charges (probably 5 hours or so). It now charges in well under 3 hours.
Same here. When new & after a factory reset, it will take a LONG time to recharge. But will sort out after a few cycles.
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I don't know what happens, but after 5hr use (heavy use), few voice calls (one about 30 min) emails sync every 15 min. Battery shows me that i used only 9%, impressive! I installed battery widget to see if some software issue, but seems to be only 1% out. Phone shows 90% life left, widget 91% (but still calibrating)
Brightness 25 percent with wifi on and battery drain 1 percent every 5 minutes
The battery was 92 percent at 9 am. Now it's 9:30 am and it's 82 percent
Also yesterday when I went to sleep at 12 pm it was 94 percent until 9 am this morning it was 92 percent and yesterday I put it in power saving mode wifi GPS Bluetooth everything off
I think I got a defective item
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Brightness 25 percent with wife on and battery drain 1 percent every 5 minutes
The battery was 92 percent at 9 am. Now it's 9:30 am and it's 82 percent
Also yesterday when I went to sleep at 12 pm it was 94 percent until 9 am this morning it was 92 percent and yesterday I put it in power saving mode wifi GPS Bluetooth everything off
I think I got a defective item
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maybe, but maybe it's just an app that is behaving badly, do a factory wipe and do not install third party apps, then test again
i didn't do a factory reset, i don't know should i? it's new, and i didn't really follow the user manual: yesterday i got it and put it on charge for 8 hours, but while it's charging i updated the firmware, and downloaded a lot of apps (about 20 apps, no heave games), also because i was so excited so i used it every 5 - 10 minutes every hour while it was charging. basically i didn't leave it charge without using like the manual says "charge at least 8 hours BEFORE FIRST USE"
but i don't think that could make the battery goes this bad. i just ran riptide gp with brightness about 35%, after 2 minutes of playing the game the battery went down 2%, before i played the game i used asus task widget to kill all tasks, also wifi, bluetooth, gps was off, was in balanced mode.
how should i test my battery? i only charged it once, when i contacted asus about first charge question he told me that after first charge use it until it's almost dead and then charge again (like a full charge cycle or something but i don't know what that means). i think i'll contact him again and talk about this battery issues.and everything looks good, apps and games run quickly, riptide runs without lags and water effects look awesome, i don't want to return it, it's a pain, i got it from amazon and i don't even know how to ship the package back to amazon lol (i never shopped online).
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basically i didn't leave it charge without using like the manual says "charge at least 8 hours BEFORE FIRST USE"
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Your battery was already a little charged, right? Like 20-30 percent. So the first charge/use was already performed. I usually don't leave the battery that long to charge when I have a new device. Only until 100% then I disconnect it and use it.
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nooktablet said:
Brightness 25 percent with wifi on and battery drain 1 percent every 5 minutes
The battery was 92 percent at 9 am. Now it's 9:30 am and it's 82 percent
Also yesterday when I went to sleep at 12 pm it was 94 percent until 9 am this morning it was 92 percent and yesterday I put it in power saving mode wifi GPS Bluetooth everything off
I think I got a defective item
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I think that the battery reporting lagged a bit, it had drained more than 2% through the night. Also batteries sometime take a bit to set, I recommend draining it to less than 10% once a month and fully charging without interruptions. Disable all bloarware you don't use, get auto airplane mode and autostarts. Also getting the molded buildprop from seanzcream is supposed to help a bit.
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Your battery was already a little charged, right? Like 20-30 percent. So the first charge/use was already performed. I usually don't leave the battery that long to charge when I have a new device. Only until 100% then I disconnect it and use it.
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no the battery was empty, it had no power i could not even power it on, at first i thought it was dead on arrival, then i made a thread in this forum and someone told me to charge it, after charging it for 2 hours i was able to turn it on, when i asked asus do i really need to charge for 8 hours the first time like the manual says and they said:
It is recommended that you give it at least an 8 hour charge. I mean, if you don't, and charge it only 5 or 6 hours, by no means will it kill the tablet. The point of the charge is to condition the battery, which has been sitting idle for who knows how long. Letting it charge for 8 hours before putting a load on it will extend it's life and lower the chances of you getting a battery that won't hold a charge only a few days in.
When you unbox it, just plug it in and let it charge without powering it up. You can turn it on, it won't hurt it, but try not to do anything on it as it charges the first 8 hours.
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that's why i let it charge for 8 hours
The first 5-10 charges are a pain... then it settles down. Ihavent much used it on stock rom but termleechs 4.0.4 aokp so no bloat on board. Just let it load a cpl of times it should settle in after that.
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Can you tell me what you mean? Do you mean that the battery will get better after 5 to 10 charges?
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I have a new tablet from HP. I had it for two weeks now. The first couple weeks when I charge it, it would stay at 100% for a few hours before going to 99%.
The past couple days it would go down faster to like an hour or thirty minutes today before hitting 99%. I would charge it overnight whenever I was done with it. I didn't think this was a bad thing since I read that it wouldn't mess it up or overcharge since it said it stopped charging after it was full.
This evenimg I noticed my battery percent draining quicker than usual. A few hours ago I notices it went from 86% to 80% when I was out. I tried turning it off for 10 minutes and notice it would go down one percent when not using it. I been using the same charger and have been charging it for the same amount of time every night so I don't know what I have done wrong or what I can to fix it.
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I have a new tablet from HP. I had it for two weeks now. The first couple weeks when I charge it, it would stay at 100% for a few hours before going to 99%.
The past couple days it would go down faster to like an hour or thirty minutes today before hitting 99%. I would charge it overnight whenever I was done with it. I didn't think this was a bad thing since I read that it wouldn't mess it up or overcharge since it said it stopped charging after it was full.
This evenimg I noticed my battery percent draining quicker than usual. A few hours ago I notices it went from 86% to 80% when I was out. I tried turning it off for 10 minutes and notice it would go down one percent when not using it. I been using the same charger and have been charging it for the same amount of time every night so I don't know what I have done wrong or what I can to fix it.
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Maybe because there are many background process running.
Many apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, even Antivirus occupy quite amount of RAM.
Try killing them all, and see if the same happens.