[Q] Battery drains extremely fast PLZ HELP! - General Questions and Answers

My battery drains so fast it's not even funny. I went to sleep at 11PM with battery on 85% I woke up at 8AM and phone was totally discharged. I can't show you my bbs screen right now because I have no stats on it right now but it looks like AudioOut_2 does it It was saying 10%/h so yea.
Is there a fix for it someone plz help i used greenify to hibernate powerAMP i freezed play music i have no other music players i didn't use youtube
or any app making sounds also i found something called sound fx so i disabled it but firstly this was like 3%/h but now its 10%/h and that is not what anyone would like to see. If there is some fix other than wipeing everything and reflashing rom i would be really happy.
I have huawei u8850 cm 10.1, 16gb kingston sdcard,

Hit the wrong button first of all you have something that is out of control my first suggestion is to get an app from the play store like CPU spy or similar and run it for a day to see what is causing the drain I would almost bet that you have a rouge app that is doing this. If you restored any thing with data this is where I would start
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ktempleton said:
Hit the wrong button first of all you have something that is out of control my first suggestion is to get an app from the play store like CPU spy or similar and run it for a day to see what is causing the drain I would almost bet that you have a rouge app that is doing this. If you restored any thing with data this is where I would start
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I have BBS

janko1111 said:
My battery drains so fast it's not even funny. I went to sleep at 11PM with battery on 85% I woke up at 8AM and phone was totally discharged. I can't show you my bbs screen right now because I have no stats on it right now but it looks like AudioOut_2 does it It was saying 10%/h so yea.
Is there a fix for it someone plz help i used greenify to hibernate powerAMP i freezed play music i have no other music players i didn't use youtube
or any app making sounds also i found something called sound fx so i disabled it but firstly this was like 3%/h but now its 10%/h and that is not what anyone would like to see. If there is some fix other than wipeing everything and reflashing rom i would be really happy.
I have huawei u8850 cm 10.1, 16gb kingston sdcard,
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What kernel do u use?
Maybe it's the kernel.:angel:

I don't think it's kernel because i have no big kernel wakelocks but i could be wrong. also there was a new update for my rom which said it has battery fix but when i flashed my phone never gone to deep sleep when i looked to kernel wakelocks in that rom there was 1 wakelock that was never letting my phone sleep. so i tried searching for solution to my biggest wakelock which is gtalk_async_con_com.google.android.gsf.gtalkservice.androidendpoint and connectivity service which both said about an hour. should i flash the new rom and tell you what was the biggest wakelock?
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Problem is mostly common for kernel problem.
My suggestion is to use stock
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So i flashed the new version of the rom and 1 kernel wakelock called msm_serial_hs_dma is preventing my phon from deep sleep my phone is on 2 hours and it's preventing my phone from sleep 2 hours. I tried to find fix but only thing i found was this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1786981. And i have no idea what the heck did i read there.so yes it's something with kernel but no other person was saying the same thing as me. They say it really fixed they're battery life. but the battery life I have now is like 4% an hour it's not really that bad but no that good. Also people say the wakelock is somthing with bluetooth but i didn't turn on bluetooth a long time now.

In the store try an app called CPU sleeper it makes the phone sleep when the screen is off may be this will help
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ktempleton said:
In the store try an app called CPU sleeper it makes the phone sleep when the screen is off may be this will help
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I don't have dual core or quad core proccesor.

janko1111 said:
I don't have dual core or quad core proccesor.
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Have you tried better battery stats that's another good app along with greenify
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Did you consider changing the battery? I had the same issue with my HTC and I solved it by changing the battery

Ok firstly i told before that i have bbs and there is this kernel wakelock called msm_serial_hs_dma that is waking my phone about 95% of the time. And my battery is built-in my phone . but i calibrated my battery and i hope it will get better. Also thanks everyone for trying to help me.

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Deep sleep

I checked cpu spy this am and I charge my phone every night. In cpu spy there was only 16min of deep sleep and the and 6 hours of 100 mhz state? Whats going on ? Any one enlighten me it usually goes into deep sleep.
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Gtgs kernel that.came with
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tyshemi said:
I checked cpu spy this am and I charge my phone every night. In cpu spy there was only 16min of deep sleep and the and 6 hours of 100 mhz state? Whats going on ? Any one enlighten me it usually goes into deep sleep.
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Use BetterBatteryStats to look for any unusually high wakelock times.
Any input
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Do you know what your time since charged was? (I wish it would display total time since charged there...) The "since charged" definition seems weird and hasn't reset on my phone in ages... I've tended to use "since last unplugged".
Pandora appears to be your #1 wakelocker. eBay mobile seems to be pretty bad too.
NetworkLocation wakelocking can be eliminated by unchecking all of the location features in Settings except for when you want network location/GPS.
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Do you know what your time since charged was? (I wish it would display total time since charged there...) The "since charged" definition seems weird and hasn't reset on my phone in ages... I've tended to use "since last unplugged".
Pandora appears to be your #1 wakelocker. eBay mobile seems to be pretty bad too.
NetworkLocation wakelocking can be eliminated by unchecking all of the location features in Settings except for when you want network location/GPS.
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Hey ent If I.uncheck location by cell data will my weather app.still.update location?
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I assume you were listening to Pandora during that time, in which case, that wakelock is normal. Playing music from your device will also hold a wakelock when the screen is off. If you weren't listening to Pandora at all, then something is wrong.
Whoa. Why the heck is eBay holding that wakelock . Check your notification settings and if it's still holding it, clear its data and try again. Otherwise, I'd uninstall it. I always use the browser to access eBay anyway.
Entropy512 said:
Do you know what your time since charged was? (I wish it would display total time since charged there...) The "since charged" definition seems weird and hasn't reset on my phone in ages... I've tended to use "since last unplugged".
Pandora appears to be your #1 wakelocker. eBay mobile seems to be pretty bad too.
NetworkLocation wakelocking can be eliminated by unchecking all of the location features in Settings except for when you want network location/GPS.
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Thanks got most of it kinked out but what about cell location if I.turn that of will fancy.widget update
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tyshemi said:
Thanks got most of it kinked out but what about cell location if I.turn that of will fancy.widget update
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No. In the device settings, turn GPS off until you need it and leave network location checked/enabled. Go into Fancy Widget under weather settings and UNcheck/disable GPS location (GPS is unnecessary for weather updates), verify that network location is checked. Then, I would recommend changing your refresh settings (to update less frequently). I'd bet you have it set to update more frequently than an hour. I also use Fancy Widget and mine is set to 3 hours. This should take care of your network location wakelock (unless another app is also updating with network location).
BTW if Wifi is on but not connected, in Froyo it seems to scan way too often regardless of build.prop setting. Netloc should wakelock less if wifi is off.
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BTW if Wifi is on but not connected, in Froyo it seems to scan way too often regardless of build.prop setting. Netloc should wakelock less if wifi is off.
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Good.idea thanks.ent
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Simba501 said:
I assume you were listening to Pandora during that time, in which case, that wakelock is normal. Playing music from your device will also hold a wakelock when the screen is off. If you weren't listening to Pandora at all, then something is wrong.
Whoa. Why the heck is eBay holding that wakelock . Check your notification settings and if it's still holding it, clear its data and try again. Otherwise, I'd uninstall it. I always use the browser to access eBay anyway.
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Thanks buddy
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Entropy512 said:
Use BetterBatteryStats to look for any unusually high wakelock times.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see an app by that name, at least on the Android market!
Nor on Amazon's app market.
TIA!
tishoo said:
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see an app by that name, at least on the Android market!
Nor on Amazon's app market.
TIA!
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EDIT: Answered below (for non-Gingerbread ROM).
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tishoo said:
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see an app by that name, at least on the Android market!
Nor on Amazon's app market.
TIA!
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Google is your friend. It isn't a Market app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Hey ent i noticed after trial and error that phone stays on 100mhz while charging ?but when disconnected it hits deep sleep and there has been no bad wakelocks.wonder if thats y we get slow charge
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I installed BetterBatteryStats because I was curious as to why my phone always seemed to drain so quickly. I am rooted and running infused 1.5.3. I have very few widgets, one that actually accesses anything, and don't do much but surf the net or the forums in the morning. I would unplug it at 6:30 and go to work. By about 8 or so I would already be at 90% or less. That was me hardly using it. Well I hope I got my answer. Apparently Beautiful Widgets was KILLING me on the wakelocks! I wish I took a picture of it before I uninstalled it but jesus it was bad! Thanks for the good info I'm gonna keep an eye on it and see how it does.
Oh funny thing is, I was not even running Beautiful Widgets! I use Fancy Widget instead lol.
Ddot196 said:
I installed BetterBatteryStats because I was curious as to why my phone always seemed to drain so quickly. I am rooted and running infused 1.5.3. I have very few widgets, one that actually accesses anything, and don't do much but surf the net or the forums in the morning. I would unplug it at 6:30 and go to work. By about 8 or so I would already be at 90% or less. That was me hardly using it. Well I hope I got my answer. Apparently Beautiful Widgets was KILLING me on the wakelocks! I wish I took a picture of it before I uninstalled it but jesus it was bad! Thanks for the good info I'm gonna keep an eye on it and see how it does.
Oh funny thing is, I was not even running Beautiful Widgets! I use Fancy Widget instead lol.
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Awesome. I love reading stuff like this.
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tyshemi said:
Hey ent i noticed after trial and error that phone stays on 100mhz while charging ?but when disconnected it hits deep sleep and there has been no bad wakelocks.wonder if thats y we get slow charge
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No, slow charge is a few other things. ALL android phones wakelock when charging.
The phone shouldn't count CPU/screen/etc usage against charge current at all but it does. It seems to do it less so on GB. Still does it, but the spikes seem lower even if I crank stability test. Gonna be a while before I can test a navigation run.
Seems like on GB, difference between screen off and running stability test with screen on is about 200 mA. Haven't tested in that much detail on froyo. Another way of putting that - putting the screen on and cranking CPU will reduce charge rate by at least 1/3 of the 600 mA charge limit.

[Q] What is eating up my battery?

Ok so yesterday and today my battery has been atrocious. 5 hours on IDLE and it went from 100 to 55%. What the hell? Under battery usage it says android OS ~23%, clock ~18% and android system ~22% as the top 3.
Get the app betterbatterystats and see what was keeping your phone awake. It was most likely a deep sleep issue. I would also suggest cpu spy. Goodluck
ckck543 said:
Get the app betterbatterystats and see what was keeping your phone awake. It was most likely a deep sleep issue. I would also suggest cpu spy. Goodluck
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as ckck says, this app will help you narrow down the problem as to which app it is. Its a paid app but a free dev version is available here on xda. CPUSpy as he also mentioned is an app to check whether or not your phone is going into deep sleep. If it's not, an app is definately keeping it awake, which is your problem.
If you're running the ICS leak go to Settings->Sound and uncheck "Touch sounds" and "Screen lock sound". I did this and it tripled my battery life.
I use 2xbattery app with email push set to 30 minutes. It is a great battery saving. See proof.
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WIZARDfan said:
I use 2xbattery app with email push set to 30 minutes. It is a great battery saving. See proof.
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I preffer Juicy Defender Ultimate, it does things for you with out much settings, like email push it just pings and sync on it's own, major thing it turn data off, and I found data is one of the biggest battery users
2x battery does the same. I tried to post screenshot on my last post but Somehow xda app will only update jpeg and my leaked ics stores them as png.
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Rarely going into deep sleep.

Hey, I recently installed paranoid android v20, (my first custom rom on this phone) and I'm noticing that my phone isn't entering deep sleep very often. Last night I rebooted to refresh everything and get fresh numbers. I plugged it in and put it in airplane mode. And this morning it showed 5 hours in 192mhz and only 1 1/2 hours in deep sleep. (I only slept for 6 1/2) any idea what I can do to increase the use of deep sleep?
More detail: I have my cpu set to 1350mhz max - 192mhz min, with interactive governor, using Kernel tuner.
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You can go to settings, developers options, and make sure that " stay awake" is not checked. Because if checked it will prevent device from sleeping. Also check permissions on your installed apps and make sure they don't say prevent phone from sleeping. You can also try the app from the market called " Deep sleep battery saver " it puts the device into deep sleep when not in use. I think this will be helpful for you! Best wishes and hope I've helped you!!
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Stay awake is off. And I tried that app before and I'm not sure if it worked. But I'll try it again. And how would I find out which apps have "prevent phone from sleeping" other then checking each app one by one? And, other then uninstalling, how would I disable it? Thanks.
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You could install BetterBatteryStates.
It monitors 'wakelocks' which keeps the phone awake. You might find the app/settings to blame.
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I remember now why deep sleep battery saver doesn't work for me. It turns off wifi at home, yet I need wifi for groove ip phone calls. So can't use it. I'll check out better battery stats, maybe that'll fix it. Thanks.
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Raven2k said:
You could install BetterBatteryStates.
It monitors 'wakelocks' which keeps the phone awake. You might find the app/settings to blame.
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Okay, last night I charged my phone and left it unplugged with better battery stats monitoring. This morning I look and find a 22% drain after 10 hours, 9 hours in deep sleep, 1 hour awake. I checked and 44% of partial wake locks was Google maps. Why? Am I being tracked? Sheesh! So I used link to SD to freeze it until I need to use it. (which isn't to often as I primarily use Waze for navigation, maps is mainly for bus directions.) hopefully that will increase my battery life. Thanks!
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Yeah okay, maps wasnt the problem its googles location service thats always checking where i am. So I disabled it. Hopefully that will fix the problem.
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I have a similar problem, that is when I look at battery status plot under settings sometimes I see that the phone NEVER goes into sleep mode (always awake).
I installed BetterBatteryStatus and I see a lot of time spent under "partial wakelocks": mainly AlarmManager and Event Log Service. Any hint on how to solve?
Thank you in advance.
emmmile said:
I have a similar problem, that is when I look at battery status plot under settings sometimes I see that the phone NEVER goes into sleep mode (always awake).
I installed BetterBatteryStatus and I see a lot of time spent under "partial wakelocks": mainly AlarmManager and Event Log Service. Any hint on how to solve?
Thank you in advance.
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The guy who made the app is very responsive and a lot of the people there will help you. so, make a dump of your partial wake locks and submit it in the thread. you should also read through it a bit to understand others problems which may be similar to yours. see thread link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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The guy who made the app is very responsive and a lot of the people there will help you. so, make a dump of your partial wake locks and submit it in the thread. you should also read through it a bit to understand others problems which may be similar to yours. see thread link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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Ok, Thank you! I'll take a look to the thread

Battery problems

Hello there,
I noticed that my battery really doesn't last long. It's been 100% full and now, 4 1/2 hours later, there are only 6% left. The weird thing about that is that I did not really used it during that time. WLAN has been turned on over that time, display was really dark, no backlight notifications or anything. Has anyone any idea how to fix this? (LG P940)
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can you give more info
can you give more info? info like- which android, how many mah (ex: 2000,1000). give that and i may be able to help you,...
Would be really awesome! Android version is 4.2.2, battery has about 1500mah (think it's 1540) and I'm using the cyanogenmod kernel. Do you need any more information?
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CookieMonzter said:
Would be really awesome! Android version is 4.2.2, battery has about 1500mah (think it's 1540) and I'm using the cyanogenmod kernel. Do you need any more information?
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Thats not really much of a battery for the hardware,.. how old is it? Is this a recent problem, and when did you flash to CyanogenMod ?
To me it sounds like something is draining the battery pretty hard. Is the Wi-fi signal stable? Any processes under Apps>All, using excessive memory?
To me it sounds like you are having wifi/gps/bluetooth on all time, and if not, you should close ALL apps next time. Some running apps on your background could even drown your battery from 100% to 0% in less than 2 hours. Big apps or games cause the most trouble
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If this phone/battery is more than one and half year old, this could be just battery dying, like mine (LG P920, 2 years old, 1500mAh) is dying right now.
It can't last more than 6 hours lately, so i bought a new one.
A li-ion battery (standard models) just can handle frome 300 to 500 charging cycles, thus if tou charge your phone every day, battery life has about 18 months lifetime.
After, it just dies, more or less slowly.
Thank you all so far.
Bought the phone 1/2 year ago so this can't really be the problem. The battery has never been great but got worse about a month ago. I flashed it about 2 weeks ago and this didn't seem to influence the battery.
I always keep GPS and Bluetooth turned off (only turning GPS on when I go running, but I never noticed that this influences the battery either) and Wi-fi is pretty stable. As I heard that Wi-fi is really bad for the battery I tried turning it off as much as possible and so far it seems a bit better.
I also took a look at how much memory the apps use and saw that Facebook, Kingsoft Office and Whatsapp really need a lot. I think I will uninstall Facebook and KS Office then and see if this helps.
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Bought the phone 1/2 year ago so this can't really be the problem.
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I presume you bought it new ("and sealed")?
Maps used to be a big problem for me running in the background. See which apps use Maps.
Yep, I got it completely new.
Okay, I'll check that, thanks.
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Also problem with battery
I had a similar problem, my battery got "sick" after I used my phone as a GPS during 2 or 3 days. the phone was quit warm during the navigation. After that The battery life was reduced from around a day to 9-10 hours. In addition when battery is around 20%, the phone just shut down due low-battery and as soon I turn it on, as soon it turns off!
The solution was to buy a new battery, but that is odd that using the phone as GPS navigator damages the battery so badly!
Btw, my phone is a HTC desire w/ Android 4.2
yah now i may be able to help you, download the antutu battery saver app from google (it requires root) it is a really good app and helped he last
my battery from 3 hrs to 7 1/2 hrs. if you don't have root access, then it is a prob. if you don't have, tell me and i will give you another solution which
does not require root
Thanks man, I just installed it, will write tomorrow how useful this App is.
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press thanks if worked and any more problems i'm there to help and am always happy to help
batery prblem
same wit me im havin galaxy grand my batery last 5hr wht 2100mh batery nly net i use...
So... I'm not quite sure where the problem was and what helped and what didn't but the only important thing is that my battery lasts a lot longer now. Thank you to everyone who tried to help so far
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Battery drain help

Hello guys
I have since 1 week a very weird problem my phone is very warm on the top of the phone and the battery just drains down I charge it in the night so my phone is 100% in the morning and when I get it out of my pocket after 1 hour 68% left and the top of the phone is just very hot
How can I solve this I don't have the time to bring it away because I need my phone for school and work
This problem started when I upgraded to 4.2.2 the Spanish one and I flashed back to 4.1.2 yesterday but the problem is still here
I also deleted everything on my phone wiped it nothing helps
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I'm having the same problem, although phone is not getting any hot or anything like thath.
But battery is draining like hell. In a few second it will go from 15% to 0% and phone will shut down automatically.
Also when phone is fully charged it will drain battery pretty quick even with screen switched off and just music playing it will go dwon from 100 to 70 in one hour.
I've switched off all push email, facebook stuff etc. not usibg 3g much, got no clueue whats causing this to be honest.
Battery Callibration
hi,
I've had the same problem and I used this and it works
Download Battery Callibration in the Google Play Store.
You need root
Good luck
I will try the app
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You don't need this app because li-ion accu calibrate it self when it is empty and you load it again.
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Lolboy143 said:
hi,
I've had the same problem and I used this and it works
Download Battery Callibration in the Google Play Store.
You need root
Good luck
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It works. Thanks !
Yups works
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digitaliban said:
You don't need this app because li-ion accu calibrate it self when it is empty and you load it again.
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i believe so...but,as you're running out of option,better try than din't do anything :highfive:
ptothej said:
I'm having the same problem, although phone is not getting any hot or anything like thath.
But battery is draining like hell. In a few second it will go from 15% to 0% and phone will shut down automatically.
Also when phone is fully charged it will drain battery pretty quick even with screen switched off and just music playing it will go dwon from 100 to 70 in one hour.
I've switched off all push email, facebook stuff etc. not usibg 3g much, got no clueue whats causing this to be honest.
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You could try Greenify or Wakelock which will point you in the direction of what is using resources and to hibernate the offenders.
Quite useful apps.
I've tried greenify and it was causing more damage than good
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