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I flash the CM 10 Nightly build on my GS3 VZW and my battery dies but not just in the regular way. I have had my phone on the charger all day at work and instead of it charging it has been dying to the point of where it's close to zero. When I try to cut the phone off & charge it that way instead of it charging it just keeps rebooting itself. I've tried whipping every thing & i'm getting the same results. My next step is to change the roms itself & see if that does anything. I love the rom but without a battery it's no good to me. Any suggestions..?
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I flash the CM 10 Nightly build on my GS3 VZW and my battery dies but not just in the regular way. I have had my phone on the charger all day at work and instead of it charging it has been dying to the point of where it's close to zero. When I try to cut the phone off & charge it that way instead of it charging it just keeps rebooting itself. I've tried whipping every thing & i'm getting the same results. My next step is to change the roms itself & see if that does anything. I love the rom but without a battery it's no good to me. Any suggestions..?
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I would go back to stock rom to see if it works, i had a similar problem and had to get my phone replaced because the battery was dead and wouldnt charge. Idk if it was something with the rom or not.
the same thing was happening to me and i thought it was the rom and/or kernel, turned out that the ac charger broke 3 weeks from when i got the phone so it wasn't charging anything
I am stock, rooted and unlocked just before the last minor OTA. My battery has been dying on me a lot recently because it keeps showing that I'm at around 23% when it's low. So I've never received the low battery warning, and after a while it just shuts off and doesn't turn back on... so it obviously drained.
I'm gonna try clearing battery stats in CWM after a full nights charge, but was wondering if anybody has an explanation for this? Or possibly any other solutions other than clearing battery stats.
Again, I'm running Stock ROM, rooted, and unlocked. The last OTA has not been installed and fails when it tries. The only other thing I have flashed is Google Now.
Please help, this glitch is seriously killing my battery because it keeps draining down to 0 before i even know it.
you dont have to wait for a full charge to wipe battery stats...sounds like the battery is going bad imo.
wiping stats didnt do anything... I'm back at being stuck at 23% as i type.
And a battery going bad after 3 months?? My Incredible's battery is still working just fine after 2+ years now.... Is it really possible for a battery to crap out this quick?
KrisPeezy said:
wiping stats didnt do anything... I'm back at being stuck at 23% as i type.
And a battery going bad after 3 months?? My Incredible's battery is still working just fine after 2+ years now.... Is it really possible for a battery to crap out this quick?
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Batteries usually last around 1-2 years then they start to degrade.
There will be times where the battery you get will be defective. Just go to the Verizon store and show them. They will be happy to replace it.
ya i would say the battery is going bad too
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Ok, I'll try to go into the verizon store some time next week.
I'm gonna take some screen caps of the battery drain to show them. And maybe I'll bring it in when it's at that 23% point...
I Should probably unroot and lock before i bring it in right?
KrisPeezy said:
Ok, I'll try to go into the verizon store some time next week.
I'm gonna take some screen caps of the battery drain to show them. And maybe I'll bring it in when it's at that 23% point...
I Should probably unroot and lock before i bring it in right?
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Try wiping the phone and getting that update or wipe and Odin the vrlhe update on. See if this does any thing for you you might end needing a new phone. But it could also just be the battery.
Wow! Same here dude. I've been off TW for a month, with it dying at exactly 23%. Yesterday, it did the same thing on JB TW. 23%.
Michael Jordan pissed at us or something? Using his magical powers to turn our phones off?
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I'm running into the exact same issue with my one week old CLN phone and brand new battery. Battery meter will not drop below 23%. If I shut the phone down, remove the battery, and power it back on, it will start resuming normally but the problem happens again once I charge the phone back up.
Has anyone found a solution?
Edit: BTW, I am rooted/unlocked running Beans11 and ktoonz kernel.
Ive recently run into this issue as well, anyone find a solution?
Happened to me once. i switched rom/kernel
iSheep... iSheep... Meowww that's Apple VZW GSIII
KrisPeezy said:
I am stock, rooted and unlocked just before the last minor OTA. My battery has been dying on me a lot recently because it keeps showing that I'm at around 23% when it's low. So I've never received the low battery warning, and after a while it just shuts off and doesn't turn back on... so it obviously drained.
I'm gonna try clearing battery stats in CWM after a full nights charge, but was wondering if anybody has an explanation for this? Or possibly any other solutions other than clearing battery stats.
Again, I'm running Stock ROM, rooted, and unlocked. The last OTA has not been installed and fails when it tries. The only other thing I have flashed is Google Now.
Please help, this glitch is seriously killing my battery because it keeps draining down to 0 before i even know it.
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This same excate thing happened to me. The cause, I used a hacked battery app. I tried everything to fix it, switched roms, kernels, wiped stats as many different ways as I could, but everytime I would be stuck at 23% till the phone died.
Restored all my apps without the battery montior app, let the phone do its thing, and its been fine.
Remove the app, wipe stats, reboot. Should work.
And I bet your using Battery monitor widget from 3c, aren't you?
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Hi
I have a TF700T, unlocked, TWRP and CROMI 3.0.4.
My battery meter is acting weird. For example I recharged both my tab and the dock this afternoon. I unplugged them around 16:30. I've been using my tab for the last few hours (it's now past midnight), not all the time, but quite often. The meter on the tab is still showing 100%. The one for the dock is showing 94%. This is not the normal behavior of my tab and it's been doing that since I unlocked and installed TWRP and CROMI. Before, it would start to go down almost immediately, and would start recharging only at 70%, like it's supposed to.
Last time it stayed at 100% for a while and then started to drain very quickly, and then stabilized and started to act normally.
I'm trying to understand whatcould be the problem. Last time it got "stuck" like that I went to recovery and TWRP was also showing 100% power left. So it's not CROMI. But it's something... Anybody else with the same problem? Or anyone got a solution, an idea? Because I'm worried this will get worse...
Thanks
You could try clearing the battery stats. I think TWRP has the option to do it, not sure about CWM.
Ok thanks sdbags, I'll look into that...
Is there an ideal moment to do that? After a full recharge?
Usually you do 100% charge, clear stats, reboot let it get back to 100% and unplug but to be honest it probably doesn't really matter.
You'll know fairly soon if you still have the problem.
I just checked mine and it started with tablet battery until down to 89%, then dock battery kick in maintain the tablet battery around 89-90%.
The dock shouldn't recharge the tab unless it reaches 70% or lower. At least it's what it was doing before, and what's documented as normal behavior. Since my tab spends 99% of its time docked, I don't know how it would behave undocked...
Looks like it solved the problem for now. Thanks sbdags!
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Well, unfortunately, it isn't solved. When I deleted batterystats.bin it went back to "normal" at first, the tab was fully charged and it started to go down almost immediatly after I unplugged it. But yesterday it died on me while the gauge was still showing a little bit less than 30%!!! I did a full charge last night, and it's back to its old tricks: stucked at 100% for the last 8 hours (overnight).
This is very annoying... Is there anything I can do to recalibrate the battery gauge?
And why is this happening? I didn't have this problem when locked with stock ROM and recovery... I'm not complaining, I just want to understand and maybe try to fix this! Thanks!
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Well, unfortunately, it isn't solved. When I deleted batterystats.bin it went back to "normal" at first, the tab was fully charged and it started to go down almost immediatly after I unplugged it. But yesterday it died on me while the gauge was still showing a little bit less than 30%!!! I did a full charge last night, and it's back to its old tricks: stucked at 100% for the last 8 hours (overnight).
This is very annoying... Is there anything I can do to recalibrate the battery gauge?
And why is this happening? I didn't have this problem when locked with stock ROM and recovery... I'm not complaining, I just want to understand and maybe try to fix this! Thanks!
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Could be a battery hardware issue? Sounds like it's not reporting its current and voltage correctly.
You need to get some battery monitoring apps on it so you can see what is really going on.
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Could be a battery hardware issue? Sounds like it's not reporting its current and voltage correctly.
You need to get some battery monitoring apps on it so you can see what is really going on.
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Could be, but it's weird that it started just after I decided to unlock. It was fine the first 4 months of its life...
Any battery monitoring app you recommend? There are a few on Google Play... I have Battery Widget Reborn, it does some monitoring, but it doesn't provide a lot of information. I'm sure there is an "ultimate battery app" or something... Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated!
acme99 said:
Could be, but it's weird that it started just after I decided to unlock. It was fine the first 4 months of its life...
Any battery monitoring app you recommend? There are a few on Google Play... I have Battery Widget Reborn, it does some monitoring, but it doesn't provide a lot of information. I'm sure there is an "ultimate battery app" or something... Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated!
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Try battery monitor widget. It does everything you need.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccc71.bmw&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
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Try battery monitor widget. It does everything you need.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccc71.bmw&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
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Ok, thanks... Will try that and report!
Ok... So I did some testing... My tab is shutting down (more like crashing) at 28% and showing 6561 mV. I then have to plug it in and wait for 5-8 minutes before it will allow me to boot it.
So I plugged it in... It reached 100% at 8169 mV... But then, it continued to charge. As of now, it is at 8296 and still going up as I'm writing this!!
This issue is the same as issue #2 in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2090826
Now, I don't know, but it look suspicious to me that this problem started when I installed TWRP and CROMI. Could it be related, somehow??
Additionnal details:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=41224
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Additionnal details:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=41224
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What happens if you wipe the battery stats again?
The only other thing I can recommended is a total wipe, reflash Asus stock to redo the bootloader, TWRP and reflash CROMI. Others don't have this problem so it is something particularly to your setup.
All those posts you linked are pointing to the 4.2.1 update causing the issue. As we only have 4.1.1 I can't see any relationship unless Asus injected some 4.2.1 code into their latest update which seems unlikely.
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What happens if you wipe the battery stats again?
The only other thing I can recommended is a total wipe, reflash Asus stock to redo the bootloader, TWRP and reflash CROMI. Others don't have this problem so it is something particularly to your setup.
All those posts you linked are pointing to the 4.2.1 update causing the issue. As we only have 4.1.1 I can't see any relationship unless Asus injected some 4.2.1 code into their latest update which seems unlikely.
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I wiped the stats yesterday. Looks like it doesn't do much.
I'll go ahead and reflash stock...
Thanks!
acme99 said:
I wiped the stats yesterday. Looks like it doesn't do much.
I'll go ahead and reflash stock...
Thanks!
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I suggest you should do a full wipe and reflash cleanrom and kernel. This way you can eliminated all the possiblility with software and pin it on hardware.
acme99 said:
Could be, but it's weird that it started just after I decided to unlock. It was fine the first 4 months of its life...
Any battery monitoring app you recommend? There are a few on Google Play... I have Battery Widget Reborn, it does some monitoring, but it doesn't provide a lot of information. I'm sure there is an "ultimate battery app" or something... Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated!
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I have the same problem with my battery meter, and just like with you, it started when my TF700T was almost exactly 4 months old. The batteries (dock and tablet) have to be close to drained. I've been using the tablet without batteries for many hours, both yesterday and today. But my tablet battery is showing 100% and the dock battery is at 95%. That has to be wrong.
I have GSam Battery Monitor Pro. It can only tell me about the tablet battery (it's blind to the dock battery). Yesterday when I looked at this, it was telling me that the screen used no power. I'm looking at it now and it says that screen is using 68.6% of the power - that's more like it. But it's weird that yesterday the number was zero. It tells me that the unit has only been unplugged for 5 seconds, and has been telling me that since I unplugged it yesterday. GSam usually saves history, but not in this case because it thinks the unit has only been running on battery power for 5 seconds.
I also have a battery widget that is dual-battery aware. It has a history chart, but it doesn't tell me much. It shows the tablet battery at a constant level of 100% with no dips, and the dock battery very slowly dropping from 100% to 95% over the last two days. This is just wrong.
What's been happening is that the tablet will suddenly shut down when I think it's charged, and then I can't turn it on. I didn't realize what was wrong until I discovered that if I plugged it in for a while, I could turn it on again. Obviously the battery is draining completely, but the meter is incorrect. Also, draining the battery completely then recharging to green (which I hope still means "complete charge") has done nothing to recalibrate the battery.
I'm afraid this is a hardware problem. I guess I need to contact Asus?
I'm also having problems with constant browser crashes - doesn't matter what browser it is, I've tried them all. In general, this tablet has been a huge and expensive disappointment.
Edit: I'm running ICS 4.0.3 stock, rooted but not unlocked. I don't want to upgrade to JB because I need the volume booster app. I've read that the volume problem is just as bad under JB but the volume booster apps don't work (nor do many other programs I use). There is nothing in JB I need. From what I've read, people running JB have all the same browser crash problems, battery meter problems, etc.
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I have the same problem with my battery meter, and just like with you, it started when my TF700T was almost exactly 4 months old. The batteries (dock and tablet) have to be close to drained. I've been using the tablet without batteries for many hours, both yesterday and today. But my tablet battery is showing 100% and the dock battery is at 95%. That has to be wrong.
I have GSam Battery Monitor Pro. It can only tell me about the tablet battery (it's blind to the dock battery). Yesterday when I looked at this, it was telling me that the screen used no power. I'm looking at it now and it says that screen is using 68.6% of the power - that's more like it. But it's weird that yesterday the number was zero. It tells me that the unit has only been unplugged for 5 seconds, and has been telling me that since I unplugged it yesterday. GSam usually saves history, but not in this case because it thinks the unit has only been running on battery power for 5 seconds.
I also have a battery widget that is dual-battery aware. It has a history chart, but it doesn't tell me much. It shows the tablet battery at a constant level of 100% with no dips, and the dock battery very slowly dropping from 100% to 95% over the last two days. This is just wrong.
What's been happening is that the tablet will suddenly shut down when I think it's charged, and then I can't turn it on. I didn't realize what was wrong until I discovered that if I plugged it in for a while, I could turn it on again. Obviously the battery is draining completely, but the meter is incorrect. Also, draining the battery completely then recharging to green (which I hope still means "complete charge") has done nothing to recalibrate the battery.
I'm afraid this is a hardware problem. I guess I need to contact Asus?
I'm also having problems with constant browser crashes - doesn't matter what browser it is, I've tried them all. In general, this tablet has been a huge and expensive disappointment.
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I feel your frustration, I have seen more and more people with this issue. Well, we could say that either software or hardware, (not every situation is the same), so usually I recommend to do a factory reset then reflash a full Asus firmware, if the issue stills existed, then we can assume it's hardware issue. At this point, we can give Asus tech support a call.
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I feel your frustration, I have seen more and more people with this issue. Well, we could say that either software or hardware, (not every situation is the same), so usually I recommend to do a factory reset then reflash a full Asus firmware, if the issue stills existed, then we can assume it's hardware issue. At this point, we can give Asus tech support a call.
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Thanks for your reply. Have you heard back from anyone who has done a factory reset and reflashed the Asus firmware? Has anyone reported the problem going away after that?
The other thing I'm worried about is that it's a hardware problem that Asus doesn't know how to fix because they don't yet know what's causing it. I can't recall anyone saying they've found a solution to this. I've only seen reports of the problem.
I have other serious problems with this tablet, too. It runs short of memory all the time, though this isn't supposed to happen on Androids. I often have to manually clear memory to view screenshots in the Play Store. And the browser is constantly stalling, freezing, and crashing - every browser. I've tried more than 5 of them. This is especially inconvenient for me, since I make heavy use of the browser on the tablet.
I keep thinking of that pressure-sensitive Samsung tablet I almost bought instead...
I thought I'd share my experience in case it helps somebody else out.
When I first bought my phone, it had absolutely stellar battery life. I was able to get over 4 hours of screen time with %20 still remaining. Last Friday (4/18), I took the Verizon OTA update and everything seemed to go perfectly fine.
I am bone stock, s-on, no root...haven't even attempted the s-off.....yet.
Over the weekend I noticed horrible battery life. I was only able to achieve around 2 hours of screen time and even idle seemed to sap it much more quickly than before. I went through several reboots without a difference.
So, Monday night, I thought...hmmm...well fastboot still keeps some things hanging around in order to boot more quickly. So I went into the Power settings, unchecked the fastboot box, performed a power down, let it sit for 30 seconds, powered on and charged it over night.
Lo and behold, my original battery performance is back.
Best of luck.
I turned off fast boot and it fixed a few things. I also Greenified FB and FB messenger. My battery life tripled. Lol. Was craps before.
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1ManWolfePack said:
I turned off fast boot and it fixed a few things. I also Greenified FB and FB messenger. My battery life tripled. Lol. Was craps before.
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Is your battery life still good after a few days? The fasboot being enabled was the only issue causing the drain?
Well, the fastboot doesn't cause the drain. Fastboot keeps some things cached so you can reboot faster. Unchecking it allows a more complete restart. I haven't rebooted ever since that first reboot with fastboot unchecked. It's still running great!
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I was getting horrible battery life after the OTA update
But at the same time I had just rooted and was messing with a bunch of sys files using titanium backup, so not sure if something I did along those lines was effecting battery performance.
I couldn't get through 12 hours of mostly idle time without needing a recharge- so I ended up resetting my phone back to factory and and now I get amazing battery life again
1ManWolfePack said:
I turned off fast boot and it fixed a few things. I also Greenified FB and FB messenger. My battery life tripled. Lol. Was craps before.
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if you greenify FB and FB messenger, doesnt that mean you wont get facebook messeges / notifications when they are sent ?
Battery life is issue since smartphones have been released. I'm used to it. What I do? If you think the great look and feel of the HTC One M8 are worth a slight stamina sacrifice, consider carrying around an external battery unit for emergencies. You can find little portable chargers on eBay.
my phone was stock and i did the ota update. it was slightly laggy and buggy so i did a factory reset and it waa running smoother. the problem was the battery drained 1% every few minutes. i tried powering off and taking out battery but it didnt help. i tried charging with phone off and that worked but it used 2% just booting up android and losee 1% every few minutes. tried multiple reboots and nothing works.
i am with you. I can see a measurable difference in the battery life after the update.
steve austin said:
i am with you. I can see a measurable difference in the battery life after the update.
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It's pretty common for an Android phones battery to suck for a few days after an update or fresh ROM load. It's running all sorts of services in the background writing cache files, battery stat info, app data, syncing carrier data etc. It'd be down to %60 after just two hours. Pretty much every Android phone I've had I've seen this and I use to get alarmed by it. But after the 3rd or 4th day, it all seems to settle down and last as long as we'd expect. If after 5-7 days and it still sucks, then you should worry. My Note 1, LG G Pro, and now Note Edge have all done this. My Edge did this after updating to Lollipop, but now that it's all settled down, I'm usually at about %70-80 after 12hrs off the charger with light usage. It might be %40-60 after moderate use. I've had it off the charger for 24hrs (but not using the phone at all) and it was at %70.
I fixed it by charging to 15% while phone was off and doing another factory reset. Since upgrading, some apps take a long time to open. Almost as if they're close to force closing.
The battery will not charge with any charger that isn't the stock fast charging one that came with the phone. If I plug in my other charger I've used for months while at work, battery dies even when plugged in.
I kind of regret doing the ota.
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It's pretty common for an Android phones battery to suck for a few days after an update or fresh ROM load. It's running all sorts of services in the background writing cache files, battery stat info, app data, syncing carrier data etc. It'd be down to %60 after just two hours. Pretty much every Android phone I've had I've seen this and I use to get alarmed by it. But after the 3rd or 4th day, it all seems to settle down and last as long as we'd expect. If after 5-7 days and it still sucks, then you should worry. My Note 1, LG G Pro, and now Note Edge have all done this. My Edge did this after updating to Lollipop, but now that it's all settled down, I'm usually at about %70-80 after 12hrs off the charger with light usage. It might be %40-60 after moderate use. I've had it off the charger for 24hrs (but not using the phone at all) and it was at %70.
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I got mine, updated, factory reset, and set it all up again on Monday 5/18. It's been 5 days. Should I be worried? It's still draining battery like nobody's business and making it almost impossible to use.
Yeah, I'd call Sammy about it if I were you. Shouldn't take that long to setting down. Mine's been running like a champ after those first few days.
christran12 said:
Yeah, I'd call Sammy about it if I were you. Shouldn't take that long to setting down. Mine's been running like a champ after those first few days.
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They told me buy a new battery. When I got mad and demanded another rep, advised me to go back to TMO. But since then, its suddenly settled down.
You may have a buggy App that's running in the background. As with anything, try to keep it as clean as possible. Don't install every App under the sun thinking you'll need them someday. Just install what you need at that minute. You can also try to disable as many carrier bloat Apps as possible (the ones that will let you). That always seems to help me.