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Hey everyone, thanks for looking at this and hopefully helping me out. I'm new to rooting my phone and installing new roms and stuff, but I researched about as much as I could for about a week before I even rooted.
Now I've moved on and installed a new rom (CM7). Before installing I used clockwork and formated the /system, /data, /cache, and dalvik. At first everything was ok, but after about 15 minutes it turned off. I read up on battery problems, so kept my phone plugged in all weekend (got up to 4.196V-ish, with 0mA in or out) then deleted the battery file, rebooted, unplugged the phone and let it drain completely (even while it still had a charge it would turn off randomly but I figured it would be ok). After it was completely drained I completely charged it again and it still randomly turns off.
At first I thought maybe it was just the rom, but no one else seems to have the same problem as me (that I can find), so I downloaded an ICS rom to try that. Same problems. So far I have done the following to try and find out WTF is going on...
Installed Elixr to see battery drainage (sitting at main screen doing nothing its roughly -8mA, but right after boot or opening a program it jumps to -300mA to -480mA)
Done NUMEROUS battery pulls (with and without deleting the battery config file)
Switched ROMS
Any help would be amazing
PS: Before rooting or flashing a new mod my phone would shut off on its own, but only once a week, maybe. Now it turns off as soon as I unlock my sim card. However, it doesn't turn off at all if I have it plugged in.
spcclark said:
Hey everyone, thanks for looking at this and hopefully helping me out. I'm new to rooting my phone and installing new roms and stuff, but I researched about as much as I could for about a week before I even rooted.
Now I've moved on and installed a new rom (CM7). Before installing I used clockwork and formated the /system, /data, /cache, and dalvik. At first everything was ok, but after about 15 minutes it turned off. I read up on battery problems, so kept my phone plugged in all weekend (got up to 4.196V-ish, with 0mA in or out) then deleted the battery file, rebooted, unplugged the phone and let it drain completely (even while it still had a charge it would turn off randomly but I figured it would be ok). After it was completely drained I completely charged it again and it still randomly turns off.
At first I thought maybe it was just the rom, but no one else seems to have the same problem as me (that I can find), so I downloaded an ICS rom to try that. Same problems. So far I have done the following to try and find out WTF is going on...
Installed Elixr to see battery drainage (sitting at main screen doing nothing its roughly -8mA, but right after boot or opening a program it jumps to -300mA to -480mA)
Done NUMEROUS battery pulls (with and without deleting the battery config file)
Switched ROMS
Any help would be amazing
PS: Before rooting or flashing a new mod my phone would shut off on its own, but only once a week, maybe. Now it turns off as soon as I unlock my sim card. However, it doesn't turn off at all if I have it plugged in.
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Well, if you were having this issue before the rooting took place, this very well may be hardware related. There are a few things I recommend before the dreaded unroot and send back to manufacturer route (assuming the phone is under warranty still). It's been proven or at least shown that battery calibration (the whole charge to 0Ma and then fully discharge and then recharge) is a pipe dream.
I would first say find out if the CM7 ROM you're using is OCing or UVing, while you may see some people OCing to 1.3 or higher and UVing -75, not all phones are created equal in capabilities and some phones will randomly freeze/turn off if they don't like your OC and UV settings. I would also suggest flashing a different ROM to see if this problem persists. Cleardroid is what I recommend just to get an idea if it is in fact a OC or UV problem as I believe cleardroid is set up to default stock settings.
You can also try a new battery, I have heard/read/seen that bad batteries can cause reboots. Again though if this was an issue you were sometimes experiencing before, you may have hit the tip of the iceberg on a hardware issue and its finally starting to show now. Hope this helps.
spcclark said:
Hey everyone, thanks for looking at this and hopefully helping me out. I'm new to rooting my phone and installing new roms and stuff, but I researched about as much as I could for about a week before I even rooted.
Now I've moved on and installed a new rom (CM7). Before installing I used clockwork and formated the /system, /data, /cache, and dalvik. At first everything was ok, but after about 15 minutes it turned off. I read up on battery problems, so kept my phone plugged in all weekend (got up to 4.196V-ish, with 0mA in or out) then deleted the battery file, rebooted, unplugged the phone and let it drain completely (even while it still had a charge it would turn off randomly but I figured it would be ok). After it was completely drained I completely charged it again and it still randomly turns off.
At first I thought maybe it was just the rom, but no one else seems to have the same problem as me (that I can find), so I downloaded an ICS rom to try that. Same problems. So far I have done the following to try and find out WTF is going on...
Installed Elixr to see battery drainage (sitting at main screen doing nothing its roughly -8mA, but right after boot or opening a program it jumps to -300mA to -480mA)
Done NUMEROUS battery pulls (with and without deleting the battery config file)
Switched ROMS
Any help would be amazing
PS: Before rooting or flashing a new mod my phone would shut off on its own, but only once a week, maybe. Now it turns off as soon as I unlock my sim card. However, it doesn't turn off at all if I have it plugged in.
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I guess the issue is with the battery itself. Try getting a new battery. I heard some guys experiencing the same and sorting things out replacing the battery....
Leave the charger plugged in. If it doesn't reboot then that will let you know most likely it is the battery.
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Leave the charger plugged in. If it doesn't reboot then that will let you know most likely it is the battery.
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That was my thoughts exactly. However, if the ROM or kernel or whatever is set to shut off the phone at a certain reading of discharge from the battery, ie -500mA, this could also be the problem.
I thought it could have been a problem with the phone as well, but before it would shut off on its own MAYBE once a month. 90% of those I attributed to overloading the phone, closing facebook, opening the internet, starting to load a webpage then open a new txt I just recieved while the phone was still vibrating type things.
Now it still feels like it's just quitting on me, it never turns off while the screen is locked or while its charging. So far after the new ROM it has shut off when I place a call, when I receive a call, clicking on a notification, opening the messaging app, clicking download in the market, and my favorite when I unlock it from sleep.
I will download a different rom right now and try it. Just to double check this is what I've been doing to install a new rom... I boot my phone into recovery (vol- and power), go to recovery from the boot screen (opens clockworkmod), scroll down to mounts and storage, have it format /system, /data and /cache, go back to wipe data/factory reset, then install zip from sdcard, select the rom and go... I know some roms require inspiremod, should I still install this if I'm USING an inspire??
Thanks for the input guys, I really appreciate it
If it does turn out to be the battery or you just decide to get a new one to test it out. I recommend these, they are awesome and the only thing anyone should try besides HTC factory replacements. Good luck and I hope this works out for you.
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i only skimmed this. but cleaning battery contacts can help also check the side door, sometimes that can cause issues as well. air can out everything and clean metal contacts with rubbing (ipa) alcohol.
So I installed cleardroid. Once again everything worked fine for the first 10-15 minutes and then the shutdowns started again, always when making the phone do something (unlocking, clicking a notification, opening a program, etc) but never when the phone is charging.
I'll clean off every bronze or gold contact I can find but I think I might be fighting a lost cause lol. Three different ROMS, all with the same problem leads me to believe its a hardware issue. Since all the chips in these phones are all small and use multilayer boards I won't be able to replace anything myself so I see a new phone in my near future.
Thanks guys!
If it doesn't do it when its chargeing then it is the battery. I had bought my inspire from someone and it was having those issues ordered a new HTC stock battery from newegg for like $12 and has been working perfectly since then and honestly if you want the best battery rom absolution is the rom you should check out. It's a non sense rom but again I'd just buy a new battery. I had mine timed it'd reset at 92% 74% and 49% xD
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spcclark said:
So I installed cleardroid. Once again everything worked fine for the first 10-15 minutes and then the shutdowns started again, always when making the phone do something (unlocking, clicking a notification, opening a program, etc) but never when the phone is charging.
I'll clean off every bronze or gold contact I can find but I think I might be fighting a lost cause lol. Three different ROMS, all with the same problem leads me to believe its a hardware issue. Since all the chips in these phones are all small and use multilayer boards I won't be able to replace anything myself so I see a new phone in my near future.
Thanks guys!
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hmm, I would say try a new battery before getting a new phone. Worst case scenario is that you spent $15 to learn you need a new phone as opposed to spending $100+ on a new phone...this is of course assuming you want to keep the inspire and not just looking for a reason to get upgrade ahaha
I agree. It still sounds like a battery issue.
I would agree this definitely sounds like an internal short in the battery. Sounds like it's shutting off whenever it gets a significant load on it. Try a new battery first.
I had a similar issue though I was tweaking the CPU. Learned my lesson.
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Yeah, Id bet money that its a bad battery. I had this same exact issue with my Inspire. If it shuts off more in low reception areas but it isn't shutting off when plugged in, its definitely the battery. I would try to find someone with an Inspire and try switching them batteries and see if it stops.
If I tried to use the flash with my camera, the phone would shut off. My phone would randomly reboot or turn off. ATT told me they had "some" bad batches of batteries. My phone was still under warranty so ATT sent me a new battery. All the problems went away!
The battery door on the Inspire becomes wonky the more you open it, I was having a problem like yours, new battery and new door has me going good.
Update 14/09/2012
Ok, I don't think what I had in mind helped. On 13th, I had multiple shutdown while trying to use cameras and today had multiple shutdown while on the phone to someone.
Think I will try doing something with Firmware next, now have a feel it might be the cause. I have no idea what is wrong, so just going to give with anything really. Will report back soon.
Update: 13/09/2012
After a complete drain the first time, by booting into recovery and bootloader (just want to remind everyone that this is because I can't make my phone boot). Then I left it on charging for the whole night, and I did this through wall charger NOT USB. I think I read it somewhere that they recommended this when calibrating your battery. Then the next day got 1 random shutdown, then I used it until it is completed drain again. Then followed by another full charge using wall charger. Today I have been using it for 6 hours and 21 minutes, haven't had a single problem. I don't know how not doing this would cause the phone to shutdown, but doing what I did seems to be working so far. I can actually rely on it for something now, say important phone calls.
Here was my reply to elvisypi:
Just to answer your question, it would random shutdown (not so much reboot) at anytime, at any battery percentage. I could do be doing anything, using any app, sometimes when I am not even using the phone.
I don't think it's a hardware/battery/ROM/kernel problem, I tried to say that it is a combined problem caused by flashing a phone too many times maybe or too often in a period of time. Also I was just about to update saying that calibrate battery does help. I had no reboot so far and this is only the second full charge and full drain I did.
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After reading kushXmaster's post (click here) about how to add an object to help the battery stay in position (or get better connection), I found evidence that my issue was different. Before anyone ask, yes I have tried kushXmaster's idea, and no it did not work for me.
Ok, this is what I found. I had this problem not only with my current phone (htc sensation) but also with my previous phone (htc desire). So now thinking about it, it can't be the hardware problem. Cos the same problem happening to 2 different phones is pretty unlikely, not impossible, but very unlikely. The other thing was that my phones (both) didn't do this at the start when it was new, and it has only been like this a few months later (since I rooted it). For those who already guessed, yes I believe it's the flashing phones which is messing it up. However I don't know the reason or understand what is wrong with the phone. I have tried wipe battery stats and calibration, nothing worked, the only thing I found was when I go back to Sense 4 roms the problem seems better, but it is still there.
The last and most important reason why I am don't think this is a battery or hardware problem, is that my phone boots into bootloader or recovery with no problem (no reboot or shutdown). But when i tell it to boot normally it decides it hates me and turns it self off.
I am currently experiencing this problem, my phone is in recovery and I am waiting for battery to drain completely. Then gonna do calibration from there, hopefully this will work. I will keep you guys updated. Also if anyone has suggestions please leave a comment, and also let me know if anyone else is in the same position, good luck!
If you want to drain your device battery faster or more nicer way put screen timeout to never and like this you can still use your phone normal and drain the battery aswell just a little tip
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shahkam said:
If you want to drain your device battery faster or more nicer way put screen timeout to never and like this you can still use your phone normal and drain the battery aswell just a little tip
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
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If I could get it to turn on then I have a lot of ways to drain it quickly, but like I said it won't boot without shutting down before I could do anything. I turn it on, and I see the lock screen then bam it is shut down again.
lavafire said:
If I could get it to turn on then I have a lot of ways to drain it quickly, but like I said it won't boot without shutting down before I could do anything. I turn it on, and I see the lock screen then bam it is shut down again.
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Ohhh sorry didn't get that
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
To drain battery.. switch on wifi and bluetooth.. thn use 3g for 20 mins.. u will drain compltly
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium
lavafire said:
After reading kushXmaster's post (click here) about how to add an object to help the battery stay in position (or get better connection), I found evidence that my issue was different. Before anyone ask, yes I have tried kushXmaster's idea, and no it did not work for me.
Ok, this is what I found. I had this problem not only with my current phone (htc sensation) but also with my previous phone (htc desire). So now thinking about it, it can't be the hardware problem. Cos the same problem happening to 2 different phones is pretty unlikely, not impossible, but very unlikely. The other thing was that my phones (both) didn't do this at the start when it was new, and it has only been like this a few months later (since I rooted it). For those who already guessed, yes I believe it's the flashing phones which is messing it up. However I don't know the reason or understand what is wrong with the phone. I have tried wipe battery stats and calibration, nothing worked, the only thing I found was when I go back to Sense 4 roms the problem seems better, but it is still there.
The last and most important reason why I am don't think this is a battery or hardware problem, is that my phone boots into bootloader or recovery with no problem (no reboot or shutdown). But when i tell it to boot normally it decides it hates me and turns it self off.
I am currently experiencing this problem, my phone is in recovery and I am waiting for battery to drain completely. Then gonna do calibration from there, hopefully this will work. I will keep you guys updated. Also if anyone has suggestions please leave a comment, and also let me know if anyone else is in the same position, good luck!
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If you get random reboots, shutdowns, than don't even bother to calibrate the battery. It has nothing to do with the calibration. Tell us more info, how do the reboots happen, how often, what are you doing when it happens, etc. It could be a kernel/ROM problem, charger, battery, hardware. Pls give us more detailed info
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Ohhh sorry didn't get that
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
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No problem, appreciate the help :good:
elvisypi said:
If you get random reboots, shutdowns, than don't even bother to calibrate the battery. It has nothing to do with the calibration. Tell us more info, how do the reboots happen, how often, what are you doing when it happens, etc. It could be a kernel/ROM problem, charger, battery, hardware. Pls give us more detailed info
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Thanks for the tip, but tbh if i know all that I don't really need to be asking anyone. For example, if it is a ROM problem, i just change ROM. The problem is that I don't know the cause and it seems to be everything and anything, it will shut down at different length of time, sometimes when it just starts, others 30 seconds after boot has completed. I am not looking for a solution, I am more wondering what everyone else has experienced when they say they have random reboots or shutdown, because after tones of research no one has provided anything that fixes my problem.
Just to answer your question, it would random shutdown (not so much reboot) at anytime, at any battery percentage. I could do be doing anything, using any app, sometimes when I am not even using the phone.
I don't think it's a hardware/battery/ROM/kernel problem, I tried to say that it is a combined problem caused by flashing a phone too many times maybe or too often in a period of time. Also I was just about to update saying that calibrate battery does help. I had no reboot so far and this is only the second full charge and full drain I did.
I had a same reboot problem and tried the kushXmaster's trick with the business card and did not worked for me either, at the beginning…
There was no reboot or shutdown in bootloader mode in my device either. When I flashed new firmware and ROM the problem was gone, but only for few weeks. I tried multiple ROMs also, but always with the same result. This is why I was skeptic with the business card battery fix also.
But then I read kushXmaster's thread again and put an alu foil as shown by Shreyas Jani and pulled the ground pin as described by StuartTheFish. I still do not understand what happened, but my phone is working perfectly more than a month now, without restarts and shut downs. I do not know which solution helped (not sure if I placed a business card correctly before). But I do not want to experiment with this anymore. I did not even removed a battery cover since that time and I'm glad it is all working now.
Hope this helps.
prgab said:
I had a same reboot problem and tried the kushXmaster's trick with the business card and did not worked for me either, at the beginning…
There was no reboot or shutdown in bootloader mode in my device either. When I flashed new firmware and ROM the problem was gone, but only for few weeks. I tried multiple ROMs also, but always with the same result. This is why I was skeptic with the business card battery fix also.
But then I read kushXmaster's thread again and put an alu foil as shown by Shreyas Jani and pulled the ground pin as described by StuartTheFish. I still do not understand what happened, but my phone is working perfectly more than a month now, without restarts and shut downs. I do not know which solution helped (not sure if I placed a business card correctly before). But I do not want to experiment with this anymore. I did not even removed a battery cover since that time and I'm glad it is all working now.
Hope this helps.
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I experienced exactly what you experienced, when i flash a new ROM it is ok for a while. Then just gets to the stage where it happens again. I also tried almost every single ROM I could find, only sense 4 seemed to help but still didn't solve this problem completely.
Thanks for the help, really useful. If what I am trying now doesn't work then what you suggested will definably be my next hope. Cheers!
Edit: I know what you mean, if it works that back cover is not coming off.
same as you
I experience now typically the same problem as yours.
Did changing firmware helped? And how to do this?
Sorry if this has been discussed previous.
Since applying the 4.4.4 OTA update 2 weeks ago I've noticed a very noticeable downturn in my battery life.
My usage has remind the same or gone down along with my routine everyday. I could easily before go 36+ hours and still have ~20% charge left. Now I'm lucky if I go 12 hours before I get a low battery alert.
Anyone else in the same boat?
chowner said:
Sorry if this has been discussed previous.
Since applying the 4.4.4 OTA update 2 weeks ago I've noticed a very noticeable downturn in my battery life.
My usage has remind the same or gone down along with my routine everyday. I could easily before go 36+ hours and still have ~20% charge left. Now I'm lucky if I go 12 hours before I get a low battery alert.
Anyone else in the same boat?
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Im right there with you, i havent been able to fix it as of yet. Though i am in the process of flashing my phone back to stock 4.4.3 and trying to take the ota again to see if something might of gone wrong the first time around.
I'd try factory data reset if I were you ... It's not likely you had a bad flash.. usually a bad flash results in a failed flash.
Ive done factory resets. Ive tried different roms. But every 4.4.4 rom that isnt aosp just gives really crappy battery life. Ive been trying to get different kernels but the only one i could find was buckmarbles kernel and my phone would keep freezing then restarting after a few seconds after boot..... So yeah i gave up on getting a 4.4.4 sense or gpe rom working
weird. I haven't seen any change in battery life on my One m8.
I feel like my battery life has gotten worse as well, mainly idle life. I'll be down to 90% in three hours which I would normally still be at 95-96 depending on how busy work is. If I don't use my phone I would still be at 99-100% after those three hours. Idk what happened but it bugs me
I've been having the same kind of issues. Though while still being a student I can't use my phone too freely in class, but it still drains to roughly 75% after my 3 hours in the morning, straight off the charger. I limit it to playing music occasionally but otherwise it's just on and in my pocket.
Just saw an idea on another thread. Someone said that doing a factory reset on a custom recovery doesnt touch the radio, and that factory resets on a stock recovery does. It is definitely possible something wrong with the radio could affect battery life so im gonna try to factory reset after returning to stock revocery seeing as ive only ever done it with TWRP
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Just saw an idea on another thread. Someone said that doing a factory reset on a custom recovery doesnt touch the radio, and that factory resets on a stock recovery does. It is definitely possible something wrong with the radio could affect battery life so im gonna try to factory reset after returning to stock revocery seeing as ive only ever done it with TWRP
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Ive been trying various 4.4.4 based roms on my phone and been using trickster kernel mod to look through my cpu usage, and on every rom thats 4.4.4 based my cpu is constantly maxed...... and idea why this is happening, even on stock this happens and its really irritating me that i cant use any of the new roms that are coming out and im scared i wont be able to use the lollipop update when it comes out.
Sorry about double post, thought i was editing my old post
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Ive been trying various 4.4.4 based roms on my phone and been using trickster kernel mod to look through my cpu usage, and on every rom thats 4.4.4 based my cpu is constantly maxed...... and idea why this is happening, even on stock this happens and its really irritating me that i cant use any of the new roms that are coming out and im scared i wont be able to use the lollipop update when it comes out.
Sorry about double post, thought i was editing my old post
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There's an app called SystemPanel that will show you what's using your cpu. If you look at the picture farthest to the left, you'll see a little vertical bar to the left of the app or process name. That bar will show you how much cpu the process is using. The more gray in the bar, the more usage. If nothing shows up as using all of your cpu, you probably have to go into the settings and set it to show system processes (it doesn't by default).
If you don't want to install that, there's a built in tool that may show you what you want to know. You have to enable developer options in settings. Then go to advanced, then enable the option that says "show cpu usage". If you do that, an overlay will appear on the screen . If there's one app or process at the top of the list most of the time, it's more than likely the culpit.
Try going into:
settings>
wifi>
advanced>
then uncheck scanning is always available
I noticed my battery life was cut nearly in half after upgrading to 4.4.4.
Now its not back to where it was before, but its around 90% of what it was before.
Hope it helps.
Well i finally fixed my issues. Turns out i had some bad media on my phone that was causing the media scanner to go out if wack.
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Well i finally fixed my issues. Turns out i had some bad media on my phone that was causing the media scanner to go out if wack.
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What media are you talking about? Like in your SD card or internal storage?
My awesome HTCm8 has gone from being a ph with great battery to one that is down to 20% by end of day.
I did wipecache on recovery mode then finally did factory reset yesterday.
Still not much luck. Android system and Android OS and cell radio consume most battery. Before the update my battery usage would only show cell standby and WiFi and phone idle. Now it's a long list including Android system and Android OS. Before update I could go 2 days without charging.
Anything I can do? Do I need to factory reset again? I want my awesome phone back. Btw I was forced to update due to constant update notification which kept plumetting my battery by keeping the phone awake orelse would never update.
First, sorry if this has already been discussed somewhere, but I couldn't find a topic with a case exactly like mine.
I have a 4G Slide. From the beginning, as I don't like Android 2.3 (or whatever it was, 2.X anyway) I upgraded to 4.0 by installing Cyanogenmod 9.10 (stable release for Doubleshot). So I don't really know how it was before CM 9, but here's the issue.
First, this phone takes forever to charge it, even leaving it overnight isn't enough sometimes. However, it can reach 100%, it's just really slow. And here's the strange part. If you look at the charge graph in Battery menu, you can see the straight line going up, and at a certain moment you can notice what looks like a very slight break in it - not a gap, I mean that it's going up at a certain angle, and you see it suddenly change a bit, like the charging speed slowed down or something. So I found out that when you see this line break, you can just reboot the phone. And it shows 100% charge, the light is green! Otherwise you'll have to wait for hours until it shows 100%.
Also, changes in charge displayed on the screen are almost unpredictable. Sometimes it shows you it's holding charge well for a relatively long time, and suddenly, there's a sharp fall in the graph, and the phone shuts off. It's especially annoying during the night, as I use it as an alarm cloclk to wake up, and once I almost was late for work because the stupid thing died in the night, luckily I woke up by myself.
So my question is whether this can be fixed as I'm fed up. What I tried: changed the battery, tried different chargers, tried to clean the micro USB on the phone (the charging port), installed an updated version of CM 9 from this site. Nothing seems to help. So I'll be grateful if someone can tell me what it is, maybe you've seen this happen. Does it mean my phone has a bad charging controller? I also heard that flashing a different kernel sometimes helps, but there aren't any available for my phone.
Thank you.
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First, sorry if this has already been discussed somewhere, but I couldn't find a topic with a case exactly like mine.
I have a 4G Slide. From the beginning, as I don't like Android 2.3 (or whatever it was, 2.X anyway) I upgraded to 4.0 by installing Cyanogenmod 9.10 (stable release for Doubleshot). So I don't really know how it was before CM 9, but here's the issue.
First, this phone takes forever to charge it, even leaving it overnight isn't enough sometimes. However, it can reach 100%, it's just really slow. And here's the strange part. If you look at the charge graph in Battery menu, you can see the straight line going up, and at a certain moment you can notice what looks like a very slight break in it - not a gap, I mean that it's going up at a certain angle, and you see it suddenly change a bit, like the charging speed slowed down or something. So I found out that when you see this line break, you can just reboot the phone. And it shows 100% charge, the light is green! Otherwise you'll have to wait for hours until it shows 100%.
Also, changes in charge displayed on the screen are almost unpredictable. Sometimes it shows you it's holding charge well for a relatively long time, and suddenly, there's a sharp fall in the graph, and the phone shuts off. It's especially annoying during the night, as I use it as an alarm cloclk to wake up, and once I almost was late for work because the stupid thing died in the night, luckily I woke up by myself.
So my question is whether this can be fixed as I'm fed up. What I tried: changed the battery, tried different chargers, tried to clean the micro USB on the phone (the charging port), installed an updated version of CM 9 from this site. Nothing seems to help. So I'll be grateful if someone can tell me what it is, maybe you've seen this happen. Does it mean my phone has a bad charging controller? I also heard that flashing a different kernel sometimes helps, but there aren't any available for my phone.
Thank you.
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ICS may just have battery stats that don't work for your batteries. Try calibrating the battery:
http://www.androidpit.com/how-to-calibrate-the-battery-on-your-android-device
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en
If I remember the instructions properly, install the app, charge to full (or half hour past full), open the app to press the button, run it dry, and charge it fully with it turned off (note the LED on mine turns green at the 90% mark, so leave it plugged in and off for about an hour past the time it turns green).
I found with the app, it takes forever to get that last 1% after using it, and it takes a while before dipping below it again, but it seems to be more accurate than CM thinking I had the stock battery installed (I have a couple Ankers now). Hope this helps.
Thank you but doesn't work
Nothing helps. It's surely not related to incorrectly calibrated battery. I did 8-1-1 charge which DID help when I bought a Chinese copy of Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini (my wife is using it now, and it's working fine, battery life is very good). But my stupid phone doesn't react. Just 5 minutes ago, when I was talking to my friend, it still showed about 30% left, then it suddenly died and I even couldn't turn it on, even while it was charging, the red light was blinking. Then it turned on and showed 2%! But the most interesting thing is that now there's something else going on, which I've NEVER seen! Because when I looked at it after approximately 10 minutes, it showed 98%!!! It never did that before. What the hell is happening?????? Then I rebooted it, and now it shows 39%! How's that? I've no idea how to make it work, maybe it's the CM9 which doesn't work corectly with the battery controller, but I think that it's much more likely that the battery controller itself is faulty. Sometimes this happens, and this is a physical fault. Unfortunately, it's too expensive to fix, so I'll just probably have to get a new phone...
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Nothing helps. It's surely not related to incorrectly calibrated battery. I did 8-1-1 charge which DID help when I bought a Chinese copy of Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini (my wife is using it now, and it's working fine, battery life is very good). But my stupid phone doesn't react. Just 5 minutes ago, when I was talking to my friend, it still showed about 30% left, then it suddenly died and I even couldn't turn it on, even while it was charging, the red light was blinking. Then it turned on and showed 2%! But the most interesting thing is that now there's something else going on, which I've NEVER seen! Because when I looked at it after approximately 10 minutes, it showed 98%!!! It never did that before. What the hell is happening?????? Then I rebooted it, and now it shows 39%! How's that? I've no idea how to make it work, maybe it's the CM9 which doesn't work corectly with the battery controller, but I think that it's much more likely that the battery controller itself is faulty. Sometimes this happens, and this is a physical fault. Unfortunately, it's too expensive to fix, so I'll just probably have to get a new phone...
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Well, I am suspecting a hardware issue, but only one way to find out ... go back to stock.
Doesn't have to be true stock, if you no longer have a nandroid of the original OS. MikTouch would work just as well, as the kernels are interchangeable. If you need a download for it, I can help out with that.
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Well, I am suspecting a hardware issue, but only one way to find out ... go back to stock.
Doesn't have to be true stock, if you no longer have a nandroid of the original OS. MikTouch would work just as well, as the kernels are interchangeable. If you need a download for it, I can help out with that.
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By the way, I wanted to install an upgrade - a different version of CM found here (the thread says it's stable enough) to see if a newer system can solve the problem. I found this "[ROM][Official]MyTouch4G Slide CyanogenMod 10.1 [P-21] | 2013-06-16" - but unfortunately, it doesn't work on my phone. It's getting installed, and then it says something like "Updating Android" and then "Starting applications" and just freezes. If you reboot it, it just stops at the CM10 logo. I had this before with CM 9 and wiped Dalvik cache (I think), then the problem went away. Here, no such luck. Doesn't help at all. Will go back (as I did a backup) to what I had. But it's a pity.
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By the way, I wanted to install an upgrade - a different version of CM found here (the thread says it's stable enough) to see if a newer system can solve the problem. I found this "[ROM][Official]MyTouch4G Slide CyanogenMod 10.1 [P-21] | 2013-06-16" - but unfortunately, it doesn't work on my phone. It's getting installed, and then it says something like "Updating Android" and then "Starting applications" and just freezes. If you reboot it, it just stops at the CM10 logo. I had this before with CM 9 and wiped Dalvik cache (I think), then the problem went away. Here, no such luck. Doesn't help at all. Will go back (as I did a backup) to what I had. But it's a pity.
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Did you dirty flash, that is not wipe data before installing CM10.1? If so, that would be the cause.
If not, that's new for me. I used TBalden's CM10.1 for a year, never had a problem like that.
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Did you dirty flash, that is not wipe data before installing CM10.1? If so, that would be the cause.
If not, that's new for me. I used TBalden's CM10.1 for a year, never had a problem like that.
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I tried everything, including wiping data/cache/Dalvik cache, then installing the file, I even tried to install the GApps too. Nothing seems to happen. It just gets stuck in the bootloop. When you first turn it on, it stops at "Starting apps", then if you reboot it, it stops working at CM logo (bootloop). I waited for 10 minutes or more, no result. Luckily, I did a full backup so I went back to CM 9. Seems like my phone is simply incompatible with this mod. No luck for me here .
Hello everyone.
I've run into a problem. My phone turned off with a green screen and it will not boot back on. Not into recovery nor download node(Samsung Phone).
-Bit of a back story-
My dad got this phone from my Aunt, A Samsung galaxy core prime(SM-G360H Varient) after i dropped my S6 and broke the screen. It came with a faulty OEM battery that lasts only upto 20-40% of its capacity(Depending on my usage).
Now being an android aficionado, i couldnt resist jumping from ROMS. It came with 4.4 and i jumped to 7.1.2 and stayed there.
Now i've replaced the faulty battery with a third party one and all was good for a few months. Then i switched to RR 7.1.2 and then started the problems, the ohone would lose the cell reception, Completely freeze and do a hard reboot. Always in that order. I could bare with it because it would take just a few moments to reboot.
Why, i was on RR is because of the performance. The other 7.1.2 roms felt unpolished and incomplete. The 2 ROMS that i orefered were CRdroid and RR.
CRdroid would randomly slow down and wont speed back up until i wipe my phone 20-30 times. RR help up pretty good but the cell reception bug was the only problem.
Tried charging the phone, no reaction.
Ill try to remove my battery and see if it helps. Ill update the post accordingly.
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Now i dont what is causing this problem. I dunno if its hardware or software.
TL;DR - Phone died with a green screen and is completely bricked. Won't boot at all. Not into recovery nor download mode.
Help me please.
Update - Removed the battery and kept it aside for 2 minutes and put it back in and rebooted. Voila it booted up fine. :good: