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Weird battery meter problem

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!

acme99 said:
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.

sbdags said:
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

sbdags said:
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

acme99 said:
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.

sbdags said:
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.

permutations said:
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.

buhohitr said:
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...

[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.

[Q] Battery Problens!!

Ive had my htc one x for maybe 5-6 months which is almost the longest ive ever been on one phone and i love(d) it, but its always been doing something very strange and aggravating that seems to be getting worse. Battery drain has always been a problem for me with this phone but ehh i can deal with it, but once my phone gets down to about 14% which is does often because of the draining it starts acting real funny with its power and sometimes goes from 14 down to 5 in an instant literally out of no where and as soon as i plug up itll go right back to 13, or itll shut down entirely at 14% but i can just cut it back on, or itll shut down in the middle of me doing something and i have to charge it for about 5-10 minutes before itll even come back on. The latter happened last night btw. No matter what combination of roms/kernels i try this always seems to be a problem. I really cant deal with this anymore and its to the point where i wanna throw my phone into a wall and just buy another one, which im seriously thinking about doing at this point. If such thing has happened to anyone before or you have insight on this can you please help before i just give up hope completely.

What you have described is normal for our device. Remember that the battery percentage is just an estimate of your actual charge. In addition, you find your phone shutting off around the lower percentages as a result of the device attempting to prevent damage to the battery. That is what the HOXl was designed to do.
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KungFuCracka94 said:
What you have described is normal for our device. Remember that the battery percentage is just an estimate of your actual charge. In addition, you find your phone shutting off around the lower percentages as a result of the device attempting to prevent damage to the battery. That is what the HOXl was designed to do.
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Last night when it did it, as it has before, i was still on 21%.... thats not normal. And this isnt my first android nor first htc, never happened before. Even on my aunts old one s it didnt happen

Do you allow full charges after these "forced shutdowns" occur? This should cause your battery to recalibrate.
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NexusS4gFreak said:
Last night when it did it, as it has before, i was still on 21%.... thats not normal. And this isnt my first android nor first htc, never happened before. Even on my aunts old one s it didnt happen
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The battery behavior on this phone has been interesting. I have the battery last over two weeks on airplane mode and I've had the battery last just a couple of hours with just a stock setup. There are so many factors that play into this. I work in an area with very little to no signal reception and my battery life goes crazy and the phone can get really hot while I'm there so I've seen the best and worst.
What I do to counteract this bad behavior:
1. Charge prior to 40% (I've had the phone go from 40% to zero instantly before)
2. Consider your signal reception and either try out different radios or use airplane mode to reduce erratic battery drain
3. Install a 3rd party app like batterycalibration (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en) and use that when things get hairy (I calibrate every two weeks or so and that does the trick for me.
My phone has been like this since I pulled it out of the box. With a little management, it is just fine. You have seen it before but I'll say it again, you have to get through a few charge cycles when flashing a new Rom to get back to normal.
Hope this helps. It works for me and I work in a cell phone reception hell.

NexusS4gFreak said:
Ive had my htc one x for maybe 5-6 months which is almost the longest ive ever been on one phone and i love(d) it, but its always been doing something very strange and aggravating that seems to be getting worse. Battery drain has always been a problem for me with this phone but ehh i can deal with it, but once my phone gets down to about 14% which is does often because of the draining it starts acting real funny with its power and sometimes goes from 14 down to 5 in an instant literally out of no where and as soon as i plug up itll go right back to 13, or itll shut down entirely at 14% but i can just cut it back on, or itll shut down in the middle of me doing something and i have to charge it for about 5-10 minutes before itll even come back on. The latter happened last night btw. No matter what combination of roms/kernels i try this always seems to be a problem. I really cant deal with this anymore and its to the point where i wanna throw my phone into a wall and just buy another one, which im seriously thinking about doing at this point. If such thing has happened to anyone before or you have insight on this can you please help before i just give up hope completely.
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When a new ROM or kernel is flashed you need to let battery settle for at least 48hrs before you get super worried about battery. If possible during that time let device fully discharge then charge up to 100. Please use a battery monitoring app and then see what's causing the issues. With proper config hoxl will get good battery life. There is always the chance its hardware issue but doubtful as battery prolly would of completely failed by now. Also check your screen brightness settings. Hope this helps
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Madcat8686 said:
The battery behavior on this phone has been interesting. I have the battery last over two weeks on airplane mode and I've had the battery last just a couple of hours with just a stock setup. There are so many factors that play into this. I work in an area with very little to no signal reception and my battery life goes crazy and the phone can get really hot while I'm there so I've seen the best and worst.
What I do to counteract this bad behavior:
1. Charge prior to 40% (I've had the phone go from 40% to zero instantly before)
2. Consider your signal reception and either try out different radios or use airplane mode to reduce erratic battery drain
3. Install a 3rd party app like batterycalibration (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en) and use that when things get hairy (I calibrate every two weeks or so and that does the trick for me.
My phone has been like this since I pulled it out of the box. With a little management, it is just fine. You have seen it before but I'll say it again, you have to get through a few charge cycles when flashing a new Rom to get back to normal.
Hope this helps. It works for me and I work in a cell phone reception hell.
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Ive done all three methods youve mentioned before and still same thing. Also im on 3/4 bars with lte 90% of the time so no reception issues here. And with my current setup ive been running it for about 2 weeks.

DESERT.TECH said:
When a new ROM or kernel is flashed you need to let battery settle for at least 48hrs before you get super worried about battery. If possible during that time let device fully discharge then charge up to 100. Please use a battery monitoring app and then see what's causing the issues. With proper config hoxl will get good battery life. There is always the chance its hardware issue but doubtful as battery prolly would of completely failed by now. Also check your screen brightness settings. Hope this helps
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Ive always let the rom settle in and i constantly maintain the brightness on around mid level (mirror screen protector so i cant go too low) but its not just one rom or a few, its with every rom i flash ad that consists of most roms available for this device

The battery behaviour you described is completely normal if you understand how a battery of this type works, and if you understand how the software (especially the display of battery percentage) works in conjunction with it.
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timmaaa said:
The battery behaviour you described is completely normal if you understand how a battery of this type works, and if you understand how the software (especially the display of battery percentage) works in conjunction with it.
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So youre telling me having the phone get to 22% and instantly drop to zero and power down is normal? Makes no sense at all. Also i cant get it to charge too 100% for anything. So if theres no fix to this, anybody want a one x with a troublesome battery?

What I'm saying is the battery percentage displayed by the software is never exact, it's only an estimate based on the voltage level of your battery. Your battery sounds like its long term life (capacity) has been decreased over time and possibly bad treatment (allowing the device to discharge too much too many times).
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NexusS4gFreak said:
So youre telling me having the phone get to 22% and instantly drop to zero and power down is normal? Makes no sense at all.
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Depends on what you define as "normal". Such behavior is certainly not unheard of (although you particular collection of symptoms may point to a more serious issue, which I'll get to later). Couple things you have to remember: the battery meter is far from accurate. Being off by 10% or more is not unusual (completely normal). So jumping from 5 to 13% as you mentioned is not out of the question. The battery voltage is not actually jumping around, just the % battery number that the phone is assigning to various voltage readings. Reading errors happen, and if a jump is noticed, its just the meter correcting itself.
Which brings us to the other point that should be kept in mind: the battery % is not a "real" measurement. Its just a number assigned to various voltages to give the average person a sense of how much battery is left. Its a completely fabricated and artificial measure that just gives some relative sense of when a user should charge their battery. Phone makers just decided to use a system that average people would understand, like the fuel gauge on a car. Zero doesn't really mean zero (or anywhere close), but reporting in voltages would make no sense for most folks. Also, as we all well know, just because (for example) it took you 12 hours to drain the phone to 50%, does not necessarily mean the phone will last another 12 hours to drain the remaining 50%. It all depends on what you are doing with the phone during that time. Which leaves the question: What does the % battery really mean? Really, not a heck of a lot.
On the other hand, the battery failing to charge to 100% is troublesome, as is the apparent frequency of the meter drops and the fact that the issue remains after various ROM flashes. Leads me to believe there may be some hardware issue going on.
The short answer: IMO while some of the individual symptoms are not unusual, the seeming frequency (you haven't exactly quantified this, but it seems relative frequent just based on your descriptions) may suggest a larger issue, but its not certain.

Thanks it explained a lot but it happened again today, went to the store with ~36% on the meter and walked out, haven't touched it at all, phone was completely dead. Tried to charge and it went to 6% and stopped charging, all signs showed it was charging but it was stuck on 6. Then it started climbing again and reached about 16% and actually started losing charge while on the charger. Switched over to my portable battery charger i just got and it held the charge at about 5% for ~30 minutes, which is what it was when i plugged it in and started to charge, then it stopped againand during the whole process the phone was getting very hot. Yea im getting a new phone :/

[Q] help? Batterry precentage

Hi Guys, i'm noob, i wana ask about my htc sensation, after 2 year i'm using it, today i found
when battery charging (htc Senstaion) dismiss displaying percentage of battery after i restarting while charging.
****battery charging ------> Battery percentage displaying 60% then i restarting the phone while this situation
and then when phone finish restarting and ready to use battery precentage displaying 100%(full)
is it normal?
sorry my english bad

Boot into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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if not all many users(including me) have this situation
it is a htc's common issue after rooting the device
there is no a solution yet
it is just a percentage misreading
by the way i don't know if wipe battery stats will help

rzr86 said:
if not all many users(including me) have this situation
it is a htc's common issue after rooting the device
there is no a solution yet
it is just a percentage misreading
by the way i don't know if wipe battery stats will help
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After rooting??? R u sure about that ??
I was suffering same issue before rooting and after rooting..
Wipe battery status is useless here ..
Its HTC's fault....

Itsakash said:
After rooting??? R u sure about that ??
I was suffering same issue before rooting and after rooting..
Wipe battery status is useless here ..
Its HTC's fault....
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before rooting?
for me that never happened
also wipe battery stats is useless and indeed it is htc's fault

rzr86 said:
if not all many users(including me) have this situation
it is a htc's common issue after rooting the device
there is no a solution yet
it is just a percentage misreading
by the way i don't know if wipe battery stats will help
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Just a percentage misreading? But if the phone thinks it's at 100% won't it stop charging then?

emrvb said:
Just a percentage misreading? But if the phone thinks it's at 100% won't it stop charging then?
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probably it stops
i am not sure about that
edit: the point is the battery is increasing its percentage slower when it passes 60%-70%
but it charges the same
so if you reboot the device then it jumps at 90% or full charge

rzr86 said:
probably it stops
i am not sure about that
edit: the point is the battery is increasing its percentage slower when it passes 60%-70%
but it charges the same
so if you reboot the device then it jumps at 90% or full charge
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Is it known what causes this?
Someone above said "it is a htc's common issue after rooting". Is there any source on that? For all I know, percentage of charge of battery is determined by a combination of output voltage and amps, preferably referenced by a table taking battery age into account (correct me if I'm wrong though).
Rooting the device should not be an issue, unless HTC did something in their rom to detect this and let the battery percentage be wrong. Then again, most of us aren't on the stock rom. To be on another rom, the bootloader needs to be unlocked. Did HTC do something that unlocking the bootloader makes voltage/discharge readings unreliable? I doubt that...
I'm interested in this because I unlocked and flashed a Sensation XE for a friend of mine (SultanXDA's KitKat rom), but the battery discharges very, very fast, without an obvious cause. So I wonder whether it could be the battery is not fully charged and/or the phone decides it's empty to early.

"it is a htc's common issue after rooting"<- i said that
it was a source but i can't find it now
also i don't know if htc did something with unlocking the bootloader by purpose
if you flashed the rom recently don't judge the battery too early
give it 4-5 cyrcle charges until it settles down then see how it goes

emrvb said:
I unlocked and flashed a Sensation XE for a friend of mine (SultanXDA's KitKat rom), but the battery discharges very, very fast, without an obvious cause. So I wonder whether it could be the battery is not fully charged and/or the phone decides it's empty to early.
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I have exactly this problem.
It sounds like the same ROM, Saltan kit kat. I am using the latest kernal 3.4, having tried two kernals I get the same results. For example I charged the phone to full, and after 2 hours of use I'm down to 55%, WiFi on and browsing, gmail synced but not much else, screen brightness turned down etc.
I only flashed a couple days ago, will it improve massively over the next few days?
The phone was giving a days charge easily before flashing.
I am also noticing a message saying 'unfortunately process com.android.phone has stopped working' (or similar). When this happens and I click OK I notice the signal disappears for a few seconds before coming back. Could this be the cause of the problem?
Could it be he ROM?
I'm new to all this but managed to unlock, root, flash recovery, and flash the ROM thanks to the brilliant guides on XDA. Any help with the above would be appreciated.
Rob

i am facing the same problem , rather my problem is goes much further .
iam on stock ROM and not rooted my sensation. my device often restart automatically even when battery is about 90% or battery is 40% and it continue this from last 2-3 months.
and after restarting battery percentage is also changed, see attached pics.
i am tired of this rebooting , i observed that restaring is mostly when i connect to calls or text msgs.
can somebody pleeeeeeaase help me.

tAheEr73 said:
i am facing the same problem , rather my problem is goes much further .
iam on stock ROM and not rooted my sensation. my device often restart automatically even when battery is about 90% or battery is 40% and it continue this from last 2-3 months.
and after restarting battery percentage is also changed, see attached pics.
i am tired of this rebooting , i observed that restaring is mostly when i connect to calls or text msgs.
can somebody pleeeeeeaase help me.
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since you are completely stock then the only thing i can tell you is to check your battery if it fits correctly
also how old is it?

rzr86 said:
since you are completely stock then the only thing i can tell you is to check your battery if it fits correctly
also how old is it?
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thanks for ur reply ,
i have inserted plastic card behind battery for proper contact (adviced by many people at xda) but problem is not solved. my battary is 6 month old.
may be it is battery as i purchased from local market.
i have ordered new battery and soon will recive that . will let you know.
i have observed that mostly mobile got restart when i make/recieve calls and sms.

Spawn-uk- said:
I have exactly this problem.
It sounds like the same ROM, Saltan kit kat. I am using the latest kernal 3.4, having tried two kernals I get the same results. For example I charged the phone to full, and after 2 hours of use I'm down to 55%, WiFi on and browsing, gmail synced but not much else, screen brightness turned down etc.
I only flashed a couple days ago, will it improve massively over the next few days?
The phone was giving a days charge easily before flashing.
I am also noticing a message saying 'unfortunately process com.android.phone has stopped working' (or similar). When this happens and I click OK I notice the signal disappears for a few seconds before coming back. Could this be the cause of the problem?
Could it be he ROM?
I'm new to all this but managed to unlock, root, flash recovery, and flash the ROM thanks to the brilliant guides on XDA. Any help with the above would be appreciated.
Rob
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Does anyone have any ideas? Today the phone lasted around 12 hours but with minimal use which isn't really good enough. I thought rooting and flashing would improve battery life but so far I am disappointed. I may try another ROM tomorrow.
Rob

i'm try to buying new original batery but still same problem,
now i'm trying viver rom sc.5.1, with last Sebastian FM kernel
this rom verry awesome i'd like this but baterry percentage still problem:
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DEVICE: HTC Sensation Z710e
PREVIOUS ROM:Rooted Stock Rom ICS Sence 3.6
CURRENT ROM:ViperS 5.1.0 JB Sense 5
FIRMWARE:3.32.401.5
PREVIOUS KERNEL: htc kernel
CURRENT KERNEL:kernel 3.4.10 by SebastianFM
BOOTLOADER:unlocked
HBOOT VERSION:1.27.0000
RECOVERY:4EXT recovery touch v.1.0.0.6 RC1
S-ON
Thanks
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tAheEr73 said:
thanks for ur reply ,
i have inserted plastic card behind battery for proper contact (adviced by many people at xda) but problem is not solved. my battary is 6 month old.
may be it is battery as i purchased from local market.
i have ordered new battery and soon will recive that . will let you know.
i have observed that mostly mobile got restart when i make/recieve calls and sms.
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This really sounds like your battery, especially if it's not the original or equivalent. But, it could also be an app on the background, keeping your phone from "deep sleep". Bad cell coverage (very low signal) also drains your battery relatively quickly when you're on 3G. A good WiFi connection consumes less power than 3G with bad signal. Another possibility could be (but unlikely) is that your phone is intended for another region and thus having trouble communicating with the GSM network.
- Check your battery.
- Check what your battery is used for.
- Check your battery time with network set to GSM only.
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rzr86 said:
"it is a htc's common issue after rooting"<- i said that
it was a source but i can't find it now
also i don't know if htc did something with unlocking the bootloader by purpose
if you flashed the rom recently don't judge the battery too early
give it 4-5 cyrcle charges until it settles down then see how it goes
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Still you keep saying "after rooting" which is significantly different from unlocking the bootloader and flashing. Furthermore, to me it seems far more people report "better battery life" with their new roms.
About initially flashing the rom: i thought format of system, data and cache (including dalvik cache) ought to be enough. It has had somewhere between the 10 and 20 charge cycles by now. Battery life improved a little, but it's still far from acceptable. The battery percentage between reboots should only differ marginally between reboots (might need a few minutes of usage to become accurate). Also notable: over 20% difference in percentage reading between rom and recovery.
I wouldn't mind investigating this. So I wonder if anyone with "proper" battery life could provide me a "dumpsys" for the battery service and would perhaps have the time to take a look at /proc with me.

emrvb said:
Still you keep saying "after rooting" which is significantly different from unlocking the bootloader and flashing. Furthermore, to me it seems far more people report "better battery life" with their new roms.
About initially flashing the rom: i thought format of system, data and cache (including dalvik cache) ought to be enough. It has had somewhere between the 10 and 20 charge cycles by now. Battery life improved a little, but it's still far from acceptable. The battery percentage between reboots should only differ marginally between reboots (might need a few minutes of usage to become accurate). Also notable: over 20% difference in percentage reading between rom and recovery.
I wouldn't mind investigating this. So I wonder if anyone with "proper" battery life could provide me a "dumpsys" for the battery service and would perhaps have the time to take a look at /proc with me.
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i unlocked the bootloader and root the device at the same period and i stayed for months with the stock rom
i don't know which one is responsible for percentage misreadings
also don't get confused
i am talking only for percentage misreadings and not for better battery life
and only when you charge the device.not unplugged
of course i had(and i still have) very good battery life with whatever rom i have flashed
by the way i have noticed the percentage difference between recovery and rom but i don't remember if it was 20%

rzr86 said:
i unlocked the bootloader and root the device at the same period and i stayed for months with the stock rom
i don't know which one is responsible for percentage misreadings
also don't get confused
i am talking only for percentage misreadings and not for better battery life
and only when you charge the device.not unplugged
of course i had(and i still have) very good battery life with whatever rom i have flashed
by the way i have noticed the percentage difference between recovery and rom but i don't remember if it was 20%
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Alright, thanks for clearing that up. I really want to solve this issue, so I'm quite keen on getting the facts straight.
Back to my issue then (yeah I'm effectively hijacking this thread): is it possible the percentage misreading is causing the battery not to fully charge and/or discharge? Or should I direct my search to another cause?
This is what I found (or did not find) so far:
- Stand-by time seems great, the drain occurs when the screen is on.
- There is nothing in the normal battery usage (usage goes to screen)
- I was unable to detect an obvious culprit with better battery stats.
- I did notice that when I do a dumpsys, service battery shows voltage in V, while my Sony shows it in mV.
- I tried offline charging for about an hour today (light still orange), after boot the battery indicator showed 100%. It dropped to 86% in 7 to 8 minutes.

emrvb said:
I tried offline charging for about an hour today (light still orange), after boot the battery indicator showed 100%. It dropped to 86% in 7 to 8 minutes.
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probably never truly reached the full charge(100%) when charged it in that one hour
by the way how old is your battery?
did you try with a new one?

rzr86 said:
since you are completely stock then the only thing i can tell you is to check your battery if it fits correctly
also how old is it?
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please see attached screenshots
what do u think , is this battery or some hardware etc fault??

Dies at 20 percent, charge for 5 mins, turns on again is 29%

So my Moto X dies at ~20% charge, which is bad, but not entirely surprising for an 18 month old phone (despite the fact that I rarely use it, which is disappointing and continues to reiterate my point that Motorola QA, before or after Lenovo, sucks). The strange thing is that if I plug it in then, the charging screen on the screen off shows 1%, then 2%. If i turn it on then, the boot is normal, then on lock screen, it shows 25-29%. Any fixes?

try calibrate battery, it happend to me a lot of times and after calibrate doesnt happend, only when i change rom

Update, phone is now being very wonky. See graph for details:

I have the same issue

Same problem here. Xt1097, started 3 months ago. Already wiped battery, delete files, completed charged and discharged. Nothing works. I was running stock when first happened, I changed to custom and the problem persists.

Mine does the same, except at around 14%. XT1095

Same here (xt1097), around 10%. Already tried to calibrate without any success.
Any thoughs on this ?

Same issue here at about 15%. Pretty annoying. Is there any way to adjust the kernel to adjust shutoff voltage or adjust battery so is shows 15% as 0%?

Reporting on the same problem, I'm running CM13

Try this app.
Battery Repair.

Cleiton COUT said:
Try this app.
Battery Repair.
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Does someone tried it?

The battery is dying.
Usually iphones and samsung phones have the same issue.
Change the battery. Is the only solution(99% of the time).
i work as smartphone technician. Trust me

albatros_1994 said:
The battery is dying.
Usually iphones and samsung phones have the same issue.
Change the battery. Is the only solution(99% of the time).
i work as smartphone technician. Trust me
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I am afraid you are right... I also have this problem, but not allways and it is very annoying. Do you know where to get a new reliable battery? I also live in italy. In the pass I bought a cheap battery for moto x 2013, but it doesn't charge

niciolaux said:
I am afraid you are right... I also have this problem, but not allways and it is very annoying. Do you know where to get a new reliable battery? I also live in italy. In the pass I bought a cheap battery for moto x 2013, but it doesn't charge
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Guardalo su eBay http://www.ebay.it/itm/172111017544
Look for original bulk xt1092 batteries

The battery is dying. There's no software capable of fixing this. Replace it.

I solved the problem with a clean instal of stock rom and take the OTAs. I used the phone without root for some days and I completely discharge it, when it shut down I recharged the phone keeping it powered off , when it was charged I turned on the phone and then rebooted it, then I unplugged the phone (I did a battery calibration). After some days I rooted again (latest supersu in systemless mode) and flashed xposed (systemless version 86.2), but I didn't restore all my xposed and rooted crap. Battery life is still quite poor, but the phone didn't shut down at random percentage... I don't know if the issue was caused by some app or root method, maybe restoring stock rom helped, before doing all this stuff I tried just to calibrate battery but didn't solve the problem.

I know it's not really a solution, but I found that activating the system battery saver around 20% helps getting down to 10% without the thing turning off. I haven't tested below that yet.

glauberlima said:
The battery is dying. There's no software capable of fixing this. Replace it.
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I don't think so, I recently send my moto x to Motorola because it was damaged and they send a brand new moto x and it has exactly the same problem.

cpvm said:
I don't think so, I recently send my moto x to Motorola because it was damaged and they send a brand new moto x and it has exactly the same problem.
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That's sad to hear.

Battery dying fix
1. Shut down Moto
2. Hold volume down and power button
3. Clear dalvik cache
4. Let it charge to 100%