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Frequent shutdown and battery drain

Im having problems with my phone battery drain and shutdown. I tried 3 different roms and they all had the same problem. Im assuming it's not the rom. Tried insertcoin sense4, coindroid, and now leedroid sense 3.6. Please help me, i had my phone plugged off for 1hr and it already drained half of my battery. It seems like the phone shuts down because of low battery even though it still has because it dsnt shut down when plugged. When i turn on the phone, it will shut down again unless i turned it on plugged. Please help me... Maybe its the firmware. I rly dnt know. All i know is flash stuffs
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uhmm.. Help?

Sense ROMS Drain up A LOT of battery :l Perhaps try reflashing a ROM, I would suggest Virtuous Inquisition, and CALIBRATE the battery ( Let it charge overnight ), If your battery still seems to be draining to half a bar per hour after a full charge, try changing your battery~

Deathsongx3 said:
Sense ROMS Drain up A LOT of battery :l Perhaps try reflashing a ROM, I would suggest Virtuous Inquisition, and CALIBRATE the battery ( Let it charge overnight ), If your battery still seems to be draining to half a bar per hour after a full charge, try changing your battery~
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Okay I'll try that. I'll also check if it has something to do with overclocking

hector28 said:
Okay I'll try that. I'll also check if it has something to do with overclocking
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Definitely, overclocking takes up more battery and can damage your processor .

Actually overclocking to 1.7ghz gve me much batter battery using miui but sense roms USUALLY take up a lot of battery but they are pretty much there now eg arhd or coindroid, when you flash a rom drain the battery to <10% and then charger it up fully and you should notice brttery battery.
As for your shutdowns, unless you are overclocking to above 1.8ghz your phone shouldn't shutdown, your battery has most probably just worn out, either order a new extended one or try taking it out for the night and then put it back in, should work then.
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Same thing happens to my phone from time to time. In my case it helps if I remove the battery and then press and hold the power button for 15 seconds, then put the battery and cover on and do a full charge without turning the phone on.
You could also check to see if the battery is firmly seated in its bay and if not, wedge something in the gap to keep it firm against the contacts. There is a quite popular thread about it somewhere on this forum.

Try this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1610232
Overheating Approximate fix + battery improved + (sudden shutdown&restart)**UPDATED** it will take u to the Thread of repairing mode of battery gap ang how to fix this
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[Q] Battery Issues

Hi everyone, might of had this before but everyones seems to be a little different
I have the Galaxy i5800, (Galaxy 3/Apollo) and it was always fantastic, battery life, lag-free for the whole year i've had it.
I am running the Kyrillos' rom v10.6 which is CM7.2 based.
Since a few weeks ago, the battery has just been draining, like a hour of battery life even just in sleep mode, i have wiped Battery Stats, Cache (partition and the dalvik one), Factory Reset, pretty much everything in recovery mode. charged battery for 6-9 hours overnight from 0%. no difference, will still just drain drain drain.
Also, if you use the phone for a good 5 - 10 minutes doing for instance browsing the internet (Opera Mini) the phone will just turn off instantly (possible overheating CPU?)
I am not using GPS Wi-Fi, sometimes not even data network (3G). i don't understand how the battery is draining so fast, i have tried stock
2.1 and 2.2 roms and the same thing happened with those.
is it a problem with the phone (CPU or whatever) or the actual battery?
Sorry for the ramble but just wondered if the good lads on XDA could help! Thanks.

I too had the same issue,its due to your battery perhaps I changed my battery and now battery life is great(by great I mean 3 days approx)
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me too, help
i using CM7.2...this error: (

i've just bought a new charger and battery, the charger has already come, and for some reason battery has already increased haha!
got them both for under ten pounds altogether from amazon, really pleased with that
also flashed the phone back to stock 2.2 JPU firmware! can't complain really, might root it at some point but not too sure as i'm getting a nexus 4 when come back in stock!!
i will just use this phone as a backup phone or phone for download festival !

That may be a problem of battery as I changed by battery to a new one then it works awsm.....
From my awsm Galaxy 3.....

sounds like a problem with the battery.
it happened to me because of overflashing during development work.
replacing battery worked awesome!!
the battery is pulling out 1.5 to 2 days with wifi on half of the time

Battery about to die.

Hello there!
I know that is existing more topics about the battery,but I can`t find something to solve my problem.
I installed Vipers rom. I used before Cyanogen 10. Now,on Vipers,my battery lasts 2-3 hours. I`m using the phone only for calls,check mail and messages,total use 30 mins.
What I have to change ? I think its about settings...maybe I installed something wrong. On Cyanogen battery keeps me 8-9 hours.
Another thing is that charging time takes too long (10-12 hours) on power socket.
Can someone to help me please?

advisoryy said:
Hello there!
I know that is existing more topics about the battery,but I can`t find something to solve my problem.
I installed Vipers rom. I used before Cyanogen 10. Now,on Vipers,my battery lasts 2-3 hours. I`m using the phone only for calls,check mail and messages,total use 30 mins.
What I have to change ? I think its about settings...maybe I installed something wrong. On Cyanogen battery keeps me 8-9 hours.
Another thing is that charging time takes too long (10-12 hours) on power socket.
Can someone to help me please?
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If the battery life is THAT bad it's probably not a settings issue. Your battery may just be old and worn out. Try replacing the battery itself. New ones only cost a few bucks. New better ones only a few bucks more than that.
The fact that it takes 12 hours to charge is another indicator that the battery itself has just gone bad. Your best bet is replacement.

AW: Battery about to die.
What recovery have you installed i had problems on cwm-Touch , now i am on TWRP and my batt problems with ViperS are gone. :thumbup:
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Battery life bad even on Anker 1900!!! Help!!

Hi all,
I brought my HTC Sensation z710e about 14 months ago, and I'm a pretty heavy user, so battery life took a hit.
After about 8-9 months i got 4-5 hours screen on time on the stock battery. About 7 hrs heavy usage. I tried formatting the phone, and kept an eye on battery abusive wake locks, but to no avail.
To rectify that I've tried various roms (Elegencia 4, VipersS 1.6, Albinomans CM 10.1) among a few and also tried undervolting the phone. Nothing.
Then about a month ago, I brought a 1900mAh Anker battery which according to a lot of XDA threads is the problem solver for all battery issues.
I've been using that battery with Albinomans rom, and I have tried wiping battery stats to ensure the battery starts from a clean slate, but still I get barely 7 hrs, far from the promised 2days.
That leads me to conclude that something is wrong with my setup. And having tried many roms and kernels, formatting my phone and doing most other stuff suggested on the XDA threads, I cant work out whats wrong.
If it is a hardware issue, is there any way of finding out what it is, and what would be the way to rectify.
Any help would be higly appreciated
(although I've been and rooting and playing around with my phone for abt 3months now, this is my first thread on XDA. It may be a little unorganised in the way its written. If i've left any info out plz let me know. Thanx)
HTC Sensation z710e
Albinomans CM 10.1 10th May build
CPU 1500Mhz 384Mhz
Firnware 3.33

hello, if you use many applications that constantly require the 3G part of your mobile , it is quite normal ...
With my stock battery, i'm about 20hours and more but if i play games for a long time it's normal that battery drops.
I even think that you can be happy that your battery takes 7 hours using it a lot.
Try these CPU settings :
Governor Lazy or Badass
Min : 384Mhz or 432Mhz
Max : uses frequencies between 932 to 1188Mh
When u change ROM try to wipe battery stats before first start
Before u change the Kernel, make a Full Kernel Reset. Flash new Kernel

blogodoblogodo said:
hello, if you use many applications that constantly require the 3G part of your mobile , it is quite normal ...
With my stock battery, i'm about 20hours and more but if i play games for a long time it's normal that battery drops.
I even think that you can be happy that your battery takes 7 hours using it a lot.
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This part all rings true. You cannot measure the battery life by how long you go between charges. That's almost irrelevant information because if ti's set up properly the phone will use very minimal battery when the screen is off.
The proper way to measure the battery life is by how much screen on time you get plus phone talk time between charges. With an Anker on Albino's CM10.1 ROM that should be 3 to 5 hours depending on a few other things. If that 3 to 5 hours happens all at once, then you'll need to recharge in 3 to 5 hours. If you use it sparingly over 2, 3, or ever 4 days before you've use it for a total of 3 to 5 hours, then it'll last that long between charges.
The 2 things that use the battery are the screen's backlight and the cell radio. Those two things are the battery users. Bluetooth and Wifi are too. But theoretically you're not using bluetooth or wifi unless you are talking on a call or having the screen on. So you can still measure by the scren on plus talk time. And if you use bluetooth and wifi a lot your total use will be closer to 3 hours than 5 hours.
When u change ROM try to wipe battery stats before first start
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This part is not true. It has no effect on anything. And when you install any ROM the battery stats are going to get wiped anyway because you are replacing the entire contents of the system directory.
No amount of wiping battery stats, calibrating batteries, or any of that mumbo jumbo is going to help. It's all snake oil.
Also keep in mind that you do need to give a new ROM 3 to 5 full charge and discharge cycles before you really see what the battery life is like. If you're jumping from ROM to ROM every day to test battery life you'll never get an honest look at what batter life is like on any of them.

Kernel
Thanx very much,
Any suggestions on what JB kernel to use??

murtazasamiwala said:
Thanx very much,
Any suggestions on what JB kernel to use??
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On albino's ROM? You only have 2 options. The one that comes with it, which is perfectly fine. Or SultanKernel, which isn't terribly different. But the install process of sultan gives you more configuration options.
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[Q] Is it battery or ROM or Kernel issue ?

Hi,
My phone is almost not charging full or it doesn't show as such.
This is detailed breakup of my issue :
I put phone at charging exactly at 2pm at 2%
3pm it was at 36%
4pm it was 54%
5pm it was at 64%
6pm it was at 73%
7pm it was at 82%
7:30pm it was at 84%
after this I removed phone from charging and rebooted it. Surprisingly it showed 100%.
Battery doesn't last more than 12hrs no matter what I do. I am using Greenify too.
BT, GPS, Auto-Sync, 3G, etc all are off. WiFi On 24hrs.
Screen-off battery drain is also around 8-9% per hour.
Can I do/try something on software side before I order a new battery ?
Right now I am on Carbon ROM (20131008) with stock kernel, 1512, Ondemand, SIO, No OC. Its same on every ROM I tried except seemingly on ARHD 7.3 (used it less than 24hrs. Its rock solid and smooth.)
I would greatly appreciate any help/advice !

I also has this issue still looking for the solution
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the battery misreading while charging is a common htc's fault after rooting and there is no solution yet
i have the same thing while charging my device
but the difference is i don't have that fast drain
how old is your battery?
did you try a different battery?
make sure it fits correctly to the pins

Battery is just 1yr old. Yup I checked the pins. They are correctly fit.

silentvisitor said:
Battery is just 1yr old. Yup I checked the pins. They are correctly fit.
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this is a rom issue i think as this has also happened to many people and and this happens after many days on a single rom (and u make the rom unstable)
the solution is simple just backup ur data and full wipe and flash rom again and u will be good to do for next many days (if u keep the rom stable)

I flash ROM almost every alternative day and I always do Full-Wipe

silentvisitor said:
I flash ROM almost every alternative day and I always do Full-Wipe
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then its a battery or charger fault

Harbir said:
then its a battery or charger fault
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How to decide which one
Are there any Battery benchmarking app that could tell me if I need a new one ?

silentvisitor said:
How to decide which one
Are there any Battery benchmarking app that could tell me if I need a new one ?
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first try to change the charger and try it with same present battery ,then after a while if the result is same then u have no choice to replace battery and yes there r many battery apps in play store u have to find then

Harbir said:
first try to change the charger and try it with same present battery ,then after a while if the result is same then u have no choice to replace battery and yes there r many battery apps in play store u have to find then
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Thanks and no I meant Benchmarking app Never saw any

Battery Kernel issue
I am new to xda. I actually flashed a new rom after that phone doesn't charge after switching off. Could it be a kernel issue or the rom's issue. I have a Canvas HD. And sorry if this is not the place to ask the question. I couldn't find any other thread related to this. Please help.

Similar issue here. My charging often stops at about 80%, but after a reboot the battery's full charged.
My battery also gets drained very fast, but it's about 2,5 years old so that's probably the problem.
With the CPU clock speed @1,5GHz and the GPU @266MHz i get about 15h +/-2h of battery life.
I keep battery saving ON most of the time. Bluetooth, GPS, 3G etc all OFF. WiFi ON for about 1-2h per day (if i would keep it on longer, my phone would be dead in 4-5h).
I'm using ViperS 5.2.1 right now (full wiped before install). I got the same experience on ARHD and previous ViperS versions.
Tested the charger - it's fine.
I was wondering if anybody else got an old battery like mine and how long does it last on full charge

Hi guys,
I have a HTC Sensation XE that i bought three days ago (second hand) and i have the same problem with the battery % not reading correctly.
Now this is what i observed:
- the charging is very slow - from 20% to 40% in 2-3 hours
- after 2-3 hours of charging if i reboot the phone the charging LED turns green and the battery reading says 100%.
(i tested to see if actually it got charged to 100% and it did, i turned everything on, watched a HD movie, played some games and after 5-6 hours of playing with it i still had 50%)
- tested the battery to see how fast it drains from 10% to shut down and it went on at full brightness and everything on for about an hour and something so this means there might not be any problems with the battery
- so the reading is wrong because the battery is charged after a few hours.
- i did a test to see if the same thing happens when the phone is off and i left it to charge for 2-3 hours and when i got back the charging LED was still orange. When i started the phone the LED went off and back on as green. The battery was 100% charged.
- If the same behavior happens in off mode it means it's not a ROM problem (by the way from what i know the phone is stock, the guy never did the rooting.....that's what he told me - can't know for sure).
- from my electronics background it seems the phone updates the battery information sometime at boottime. When charging, the software keeps the charging LED on because it's supposed to charge due to incorrect data but the hardware charging controller drops the charge current because the the battery is full. So this can be an incorrect sensor reading by the software or an incorrect feedback given by the hardware controller.
So what do you think, what can cause this.
Should i try rooting the device?
And i tried factory reset from android and factory reset from bootloader and the problem is still there.

Ok so i did the following:
- unlock the bootloader
- flashed CWM
- installed superuser
- wipe battery stats
- wipe device
- calibrate battery with an application from market
The problem is still there.
I figured that when in bootloader first thing you can read is the S-ON/S-OFF. Before doing the unlock it was "LOCKED" and after "UNLOCKED".
I did a relock and the status changed to "RELOCKED" so this means the guy that had the phone before me didn't root which again means the theory that says this problem occurs when the user tries to root the device is not true because it seems the behavior is observed on an unrooted device.
I will dig deeper maybe i find more ideas on what i can do.
I'm running out of software options so this is pointing at something hardware.
I'll get back with updates when i find something else.

rickarrp said:
Ok so i did the following:
- unlock the bootloader
- flashed CWM
- installed superuser
- wipe battery stats
- wipe device
- calibrate battery with an application from market
The problem is still there.
I figured that when in bootloader first thing you can read is the S-ON/S-OFF. Before doing the unlock it was "LOCKED" and after "UNLOCKED".
I did a relock and the status changed to "RELOCKED" so this means the guy that had the phone before me didn't root which again means the theory that says this problem occurs when the user tries to root the device is not true because it seems the behavior is observed on an unrooted device.
I will dig deeper maybe i find more ideas on what i can do.
I'm running out of software options so this is pointing at something hardware.
I'll get back with updates when i find something else.
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probably it is htc's bug
the same happened to me after rooting the device

For now I will try to make some full cycles of the battery and see if anything changes. I usually use the phone at work and by the time I get home it's almost empty. Plug to charger and till morning it's full with a green light. I will have to monitor the charging times and get back with results.
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Well i did some full charging cycles and nothing changed, still the same long charge time(read by the phone) and with restart it bounces to 100%.
I had the original Android 4.0.3 with Htc Sense 3.6 at the time. Got 4EXT recovery and an 4.0.4 rom with Htc Sense 4.1. Did a full wipe and battery stats , installed the new 4.0.4 rom but the problem persists.
At this point i think the battery is the problem so the next thing to do is to change it. I will get back after i change it, hopefully sometime in november.

After a long time I managed to change the battery and after a few tests it seems the problem is still there. The time on battery improved as I expected but everything else is the same which means it's something hardware defective in the phone. Also did some tests with android 5.1 and the same results. Meantime I sold the phone and got a Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo. Hope this research gives some answers to someone at some point. Cheers.