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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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sir, i sent you a pm .. can you have a look ?

dullhunk said:
sir, i sent you a pm .. can you have a look ?
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Just replied. Sorry for the delay.

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 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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Finally found the cause of the problem. It wasn't the cable, but rather the connector that had the issue. I tried a connector from an LG phone (don't know which model) and it's charging my phone perfectly fine now. Mods, please lock this thread because the problem's been solved.

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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Oneplus One dies at 20% battery charge rate

Few days back, my phone died even if it showed that battery has about 20%. Since then, my phone dies always near 20% charge state. Before it does, screen is flickering a little bit.
But so far I've observed, my phone runs about 1 hour and it still shows 100%. After that, it starts to drop. I've tried some calibration, but it never worked.
Do you know, how I can repair this or it's a subject for official repair? I would've tried to buy new batteries, but since it's OPO where batteries cannot be changed, or can be, but it brakes warranty so...
Thank you guys, appreciated.

How old is your OPO? What ROM did you use? Any custom kernel / details etc?
My OPO works fine on CM11 nightlies, stock kernel but rooted.

It's max 5 months old and I've never experienced such an issue. Down you have screenshot. I'm running stock ROM and everything. Hope it will help

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korynkaaa said:
It's max 5 months old and I've never experienced such an issue. Down you have screenshot. I'm running stock ROM and everything. Hope it will help
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I think you have to send it back to 0ne+ and take your warranty claim.
greetings

Same issue Here!
korynkaaa said:
Few days back, my phone died even if it showed that battery has about 20%. Since then, my phone dies always near 20% charge state. Before it does, screen is flickering a little bit.
But so far I've observed, my phone runs about 1 hour and it still shows 100%. After that, it starts to drop. I've tried some calibration, but it never worked.
Do you know, how I can repair this or it's a subject for official repair? I would've tried to buy new batteries, but since it's OPO where batteries cannot be changed, or can be, but it brakes warranty so...
Thank you guys, appreciated.
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I have the same issue here. Bought my One on August, running stock, suddenly since a few days ago the phone goes dead on 20% or 16%.
I hope there is a solution for this, different from "send it back".

Katra78 said:
I have the same issue here. Bought my One on August, running stock, suddenly since a few days ago the phone goes dead on 20% or 16%.
I hope there is a solution for this, different from "send it back".
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I think you might get a faulty battery. This happened with my old galaxy note too. Changed battery and every issue is gone.

Got same issue since a few days, how to manage?
has anyone tries this https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/phone-switches-off-when-at-20-low-battery.157075/

27%
Same issue started happening with me too. Phone touched 25-27% mark and goes off suddenly. It was fine from last 3 weeks and from last 2 days, it is giving me this issue. I will try doing factory reset. Hope it works.
PS: I am on stock 38R without root.

has factory reset worked?

Reset doesn't work. It's software problem. A lot people having same issue.
Mine even worst. switched off about 35%. and lasted about 12 hours stuck on 100%.
I've done flash to stock 33R, 38R. clear everything. same. doesn't help.

Open up the phone dialer: type *#*#4636#*#*
This should bring you up to a "secret" settings page. Click on battery information. There you can check battery health!

Replied to a similar thread. I experienced the same issue where it stays at 100% for hours and died around 17%. Happened twice. What I did was turned off the phone and charged it full. Turned it on, waited a couple of minutes or so before unplugging. Had to make sure all apps in the background are up. So far it it fixed the problem for me.
Hope that helps.
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I've tried out an apps call "Easy Battery Calibration" can be downloaded from playstore. for rooted devices only.
After using it. it seems okay right now. 100% no longer holds up few hours. drop 2% about 1.5 hours usage.
Looks neat. still waiting for the battery depleting .

reinerlee said:
I've tried out an apps call "Easy Battery Calibration" can be downloaded from playstore. for rooted devices only.
After using it. it seems okay right now. 100% no longer holds up few hours. drop 2% about 1.5 hours usage.
Looks neat. still waiting for the battery depleting .
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Sorry, just got down to about 37%. it shuts off.

minicoop7 said:
Replied to a similar thread. I experienced the same issue where it stays at 100% for hours and died around 17%. Happened twice. What I did was turned off the phone and charged it full. Turned it on, waited a couple of minutes or so before unplugging. Had to make sure all apps in the background are up. So far it it fixed the problem for me.
Hope that helps.
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This works. But do i have to do that each time for charging?

lp4u said:
This works. But do i have to do that each time for charging?
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Not really. Only did it when it died at17%. There may be some app updates that causes it. In my case I think the culprit is Gsam. Cause when it updated, it messed up the calibration. But then again, it could've been other apps that updated at that time too ☺
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I faced this previously. Phone died around 40%. Install battery calibration app from play store. Calibrated my batt and all ok till date. Rooted and on fk kernel back then.

here's the fix. no need to install additional app. no root needed.
NOTE: do this at night, just before you decide to go to bed.
1. let the device turns off itself. no matter at which battery level.
2. while the device is powered off, charge it for at least 6 hours. do not interrupt the charging. do not turn on the phone. and do use the original charger and cable.
3. once the phone is charged for at least 6 hours. turn it on and use it as per your usual way.
4. repeat step 1 to 3 for another 2 times. then the phone's battery calibration will be fixed.

I see you are on 38R .. Have you updated to 44?
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Working. Thabks.
Wondering what caused this nevertheless.
Another issue is that never before when the battery was enpty that i saw that screen with chinese words. Is that new?