Okay I have N915A (AT&T) and been having battery issues for about a year. I figured I'd wait to see if Marshmallow fixed the problem and it did not. I have bought 3 "OEM" batteries from 3 different sources and all result in similar outcomes. Initially my phone would die as early as 70% and reboot with ~2% battery life and die again. After replacing the battery, it improved to around 30-40% until same result. The third battery (current), it happens anywhere between 10-30%.
Anyone else having these issues?
Battery stats are attached for today's usage.
I have had a similar issue with the original battery and now with the replacement. Whenever I have 15% left or less, it will immediately shut down.
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Mine always died during 15%, did a cache delete, it did solve for a while, now shut down at 12%, it is said that it's a mm issue, not flashing the battery status well.
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I went through the same thing with the battery issue. I came from KitKat, upgraded to Lollipop. I was fine for couple months and got hit with the battery drain. Downgraded to KitKat and waited for Marshmallow upgrade while dealing with huge battery drain. Marshmallow came and was excited. Upgrade to Marshmallow and a month into it, battery drain showed up again. Did a complete factory reset and back to KitKat again and still dealing with battery drain, but not as bad before. I can still manage to get it drain to 15% before it starts rebooting/boot loop. This is the best I can get without buying a new battery.
And I was eagerly waiting for the Note 7 exploding fiasco to be fixed so that I can upgrade to a new safe Note 7, but that too ended quickly. There is no new phone I am that excited other than the LG V20.
I'll just keep the Note EDGE for the meantime and deal with the battery drain. I have a huge Anker 26800 Powerbank I purchased to keep the Note Edge chugging along on the road.
before I lose mine previous note 3, kit kat was great, never had any battery issue, on note edge one thing I noticed the was last 15% to 0% is quite weak like it doesn't hold any charge or something
The batteries for this phone are absolute trash. I had 2 from day one and within a year neither would hold a charge more than a few hours. I replaced both and the new ones lasted fine for a month or so, but then they started having the same issue. They discharge very quickly, and anytime the battery drops below 35% charge, it could shut down at any time. Thought the Note 7 would fix this, but now I'm back on the Edge until I can bail to something else.
Can confirm. OEM battery died in 8 months. Bought used OEM batteries, have no problems with the phone switching off as such, but very poor battery life (dies in 6 hours of little usage) and overheating. The best I could do since Samsung refuses to manufacture these batteries anymore and the cheap ripoffs are horrible. I should have stuck with my entry level Asus zenfone, a third of the price and much much much more reliable.
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Did you guys check the date of manufacturing? Gonna give anker brand battery a try when mine show signs of weakness
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Hi all,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 from work, have had it since summer. Got the Sensation XE for private recently and been having a feeling it's consuming the battery well faster. After making some searches and reading some I purchased one of those Anker 1900mAh batteries, got it yesterday and charged it up. I then had both phones lying on the table, screen off doing nothing. About 2-3h later the Samsung was at 98% whilst the HTC was at 87%!!!
I decided to at least restart the HTC and after the restart it showed 88%. I then left them over night, more or less 8 hours - right now the Samsung is at 90% and the HTC at 74%.
Now I know that batteries don't reach their top performance immediately but require a couple of charges first, but how do these numbers sound to you guys? The 13% drop within the first 2-3h was scary and ridiculous, but the overnight loss seems reasonable yet still far worse than the S2. And this is with the Anker battery, not the original.... the Samsung is rated at 1650mAh only.
I've not done this test with the original battery yet, it seems that it kept it's charge better than the Anker though - although on the other hand it had a tendency of staying at 100% for quite a while then dropping faster. Is there some procedure to calibrate/reset battery perhaps?
Cheers
//Joris
You could let the battery of XE die and recharge it back to 100% for a few times. If you are rooted be sure to clear battery stats first when you battery is fully charged before doing the above procedure.
Somehow i've been getting rather great battery life with Anker. Probably only losing around 5% when left overnight. Did you clear battery stats when trying out Anker? That may be the reason why the battery life seems poorer as compared to Galaxy S2.
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Hi m8,
cheers for the reply - I do not currently have the phone rooted and, as a matter of fact, would like to keep it that way. Was looking into the wipe battery stats/resets but all I did find related to rooted phones. Guess there's no way for a non-rooted?
It's currently down to 32%, the Samsung is at 70%. That said the HTC has had some light use whereas the Samsung has been sat in my pocket all day, doing not much more than pushing work email and some syncing.
Was thinking to plug it into charger now but better to wait till it's nearly dead? Or even till it shuts itself off?
Sense is a resource hog so that is where probably the majority of your power is going, take a look in the phones battery settings
Had it on charge over night (phone switched off), unplugged it around 7 this morning, so approx 7 hours ago. It's now at 92% with some light use, which is quite impressive - if it's "true" (I'm expecting that battery level is going to drop much faster during the day than it did this morning, when it was at 100% quite long).
Right now it's showing:
34% Screen
34% Phone idle
18% Phone inactive
10% Phonecalls
4% Camera
Not sure that's actually since last charge though, as I've no recollection of using camera at all :/
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whilst posting this and having screen active it dropped to 90%... so let's see how it is going to hold up during the day...
I just replaced the original battery that came with my phone in October 2010. The battery would drain 2% per minute while reading a book on the Kindle app. Actually any screen usage would do the same. It would also go down to 10% then shutoff then I would leave it alone for a few hours, reboot and the battery went to 50% with no charging. Then I would plug it in and it would go to 100% in a few minutes. Impossible. With very little use the battery would last 10 hours.
I put in a new HTC OEM battery that I bought of Amazon for like $6. It's been running for over a day with very heavy use and I am having trouble draining the battery to calibrate the phone. It's friggin AWESOME.
I think the old batteries are having some kind of problem or just getting old. It seemed like a heat problem where the longer the battery was used the faster it would drain and then stop completely. Then left alone it would show the correct charge.
Other people in various threads were having the same problem. Hopefully someone can figure something out.
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I just replaced the original battery that came with my phone in October 2010. The battery would drain 2% per minute while reading a book on the Kindle app. Actually any screen usage would do the same. It would also go down to 10% then shutoff then I would leave it alone for a few hours, reboot and the battery went to 50% with no charging. Then I would plug it in and it would go to 100% in a few minutes. Impossible. With very little use the battery would last 10 hours.
I put in a new HTC OEM battery that I bought of Amazon for like $6. It's been running for over a day with very heavy use and I am having trouble draining the battery to calibrate the phone. It's friggin AWESOME.
I think the old batteries are having some kind of problem or just getting old. It seemed like a heat problem where the longer the battery was used the faster it would drain and then stop completely. Then left alone it would show the correct charge.
Other people in various threads were having the same problem. Hopefully someone can figure something out.
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Do you have a link to the battery you ordered?
ziggy34 said:
Do you have a link to the battery you ordered?
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I ordered this one http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004QJB3E8/ref=pe_175190_21431760_M2C_SC_3p_dp_1. Not sure if it's the best or cheapest, it's just the one I chose.
succorso said:
I just replaced the original battery that came with my phone in October 2010. The battery would drain 2% per minute while reading a book on the Kindle app. Actually any screen usage would do the same. It would also go down to 10% then shutoff then I would leave it alone for a few hours, reboot and the battery went to 50% with no charging. Then I would plug it in and it would go to 100% in a few minutes. Impossible. With very little use the battery would last 10 hours.
I put in a new HTC OEM battery that I bought of Amazon for like $6. It's been running for over a day with very heavy use and I am having trouble draining the battery to calibrate the phone. It's friggin AWESOME.
I think the old batteries are having some kind of problem or just getting old. It seemed like a heat problem where the longer the battery was used the faster it would drain and then stop completely. Then left alone it would show the correct charge.
Other people in various threads were having the same problem. Hopefully someone can figure something out.
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It could be newer battery technology. I mean, the MT4G is nearly two years old at this point. Can you post a screenshot of your battery use? It seems that the standard for judging a battery is screen on time. How much are you getting? For $6 I would gladly invest in a new battery if we can get some numbers to back this up.
The batteries are just old. I bought a $6 battery and it's working great. Let's see how long it lasts
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It could be newer battery technology. I mean, the MT4G is nearly two years old at this point. Can you post a screenshot of your battery use? It seems that the standard for judging a battery is screen on time. How much are you getting? For $6 I would gladly invest in a new battery if we can get some numbers to back this up.
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I just started using the battery so I don't have real good stats yet. However, the charging is also taking a lot less time. My old battery took about 6 hours to charged from 5%. This should be done in about 2-3 hours.
nope - no issues on my OE battery here... last me for a day 1/2 with minimal activity (checking emails, fb). Guess i'm just lucky?
I have to agree, check your batteries. I just checked mine and it is turning oval like. Time for a new one
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nope - no issues on my OE battery here... last me for a day 1/2 with minimal activity (checking emails, fb). Guess i'm just lucky?
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may i also add that i've had my device for almost a year now using an OE batt and still going strong.
Lithium Ion batteries begin to degrade as soon as they're manufactured. They only have a few years shelf life. Poor charging habits will shorten them I already replaced mine months ago.
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I have to agree, check your batteries. I just checked mine and it is turning oval like. Time for a new one
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I see - i'm very critical of overcharging my phone. I have clocked mine the other day to see how fast it'll charge up from 30% to 90% and it took an hour and 15 mins almost... to me that's respectable.
I recommend buying the Anker battery for this phone. It really improved my battery life. Before I would only get 1.5-2 hours of screen on time before needing to charge my phone. http://www.amazon.com/Anker-1550mAh...d=1341178398&sr=8-1&keywords=anker+mytouch+4g
Got a new battery and life is better, much better
From past 1 month I'm having a hard time with my 1+1, I started experience heavy battery drain during stand by around 35-45% over night (aprox7-8hrs) I thought the battery has come to end of its life so I ordered a new battery for 1+1 and replaced it myself. But guess what I'm still facing the same issue overnight the battery drains 35-45% even when the phone is completely turned off. What's happening I don't really understand. I also tried charging the battery to 100% and removed it from 1+1 and left it for a day and when I popped it back in it was holding the battery very well it was 99%. It is only draining when I connect it to the phone the battery starts draining again. Is there anybody who can help me with this issue.? I really like this phone that I don't want to buy any other phone right now.
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From past 1 month I'm having a hard time with my 1+1, I started experience heavy battery drain during stand by around 35-45% over night (aprox7-8hrs) I thought the battery has come to end of its life so I ordered a new battery for 1+1 and replaced it myself. But guess what I'm still facing the same issue overnight the battery drains 35-45% even when the phone is completely turned off. What's happening I don't really understand. I also tried charging the battery to 100% and removed it from 1+1 and left it for a day and when I popped it back in it was holding the battery very well it was 99%. It is only draining when I connect it to the phone the battery starts draining again. Is there anybody who can help me with this issue.? I really like this phone that I don't want to buy any other phone right now.
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Sounds like a hardware issue. RMA it back to OnePlus.
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Sounds like a hardware issue. RMA it back to OnePlus.
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Ya but I cant I purchased it last year around June even before it was launched in my Country. So have to try to fix it myself
Hey hello..
I pity you.. Btw even I have similar problem.. I know how it feels.. The battery used to last 2 days easily and now merely pulls a day.. Same 35% battery drop even when I have it switched off.. I have tried almost all ROM's in vain.. Only thing I can tel you is, try charging the phone overnight and discharge completely before charging it again.. repeat this for 3 to 4 times.. This trick worked out of nowhere for me.. But again now after 10 days, it has gone to the state of not holding juice longer.. I am at a loss to understand what is wrong..
PS.. Do lemme know if you find a way out of this..
OK, so I've had my SM-P900 for about year now.
Suddenly just this week I am noticing my battery is draining considerably faster than usual and is also taking longer to charge. I was using a custom rom but have now switched back to the default 5.02 version that I installed via Kies.
So after a year do I really need to purchase a new battery?
I keep most everything off all the time and really haven't changed anything or how I use it in quite a few months so was wondering if I actually have to break down and purchase a new battery already.
Cheers
Read the threat : Flickering screen to see how to adjust the tip of battery cable closer in order to make better contact before replace a new battery, within one year the battery should still be good.
If you see the same thing with new battery, probably the battery connector has cracked solder joints and needs to be re soldered, common problem of Samsung tablets, not just only this model.
Lithium-Ion batteries generally last between 300-500 full charge cycles before they start losing power. A year is.. way too soon.
Does it also take longer to charge when the device is turned off completely?
In general a drain increase is caused by a software issue, mobile data or a bug. (or heat/cold.) (The difference between mobile data on and off with a 4G connection is 100-0% in deep sleep in 2 days with LTE, and 80 days in airplane mode.)
Signs of a dying battery include random discharges (it suddenly loses 30-70%, it's at 100 when you unplug and suddenly drops to 30%, or it's dead, you plug it in and turn it back on and it suddenly has 50% charge), random reboots and the device just not turning on at all for no apparent reason.
While it'll loose capacity eventually, that usually doesn't negatively affect the charging speed. (If anything it charges faster because it reaches 100% sooner.)
So assuming that I have a dead battery, is there a good replacement battery out there?
I have tried replacement batteries in the past and have found only subpar batteries on the market.
I bought a new battery on Amazon : 26$
This one is an original battery so at this price you should order one.
And about flickering issue, yes you should resolder connectors or changing the battery might solve this issue too (it worked for me)
Hi, I installed the S3 update over the air to my Korean S2 a couple of days ago. Everything seems fine except for issues with the battery. I Can take the watch of the charger after an overnight charge and wear it all day, powering it off before i go to bed in the evening. When i shut it down the charge can be over 50% but when i power it back on in the morning the charge is just over 10%. If i leave it powered on but not on charge the percentage will increase over the next couple of hours back to just under 50%. The problem is i can never be sure what the true state of charge is, so i am unsure whether it will last the day.
Anyone else having this issue or know how to fix it?
I have problem with battery. Battery is discharging really fast.
That's weird. My battery life seems pretty good. My watch has been off the charger for 5 hrs and I'm still at 94%
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Yeah, it looks like that first 2-3 charging cycles were not good, but today I have really good battery life. ... So my problem is solved.
On the old firmware I could wear it 16 hours and put it back on the charger with over 60% left. Since the update I am down to 20% in four hours. I've done 2 hard and one soft reset to no avail. The battery thing on the phone app says its my watchface and I should use a dark one but I am. This, frankly, is a show stopper. I can't recharge 2 or 3 times a day. Any idea how to reinstall the R734XXU2DPG1 firmware? That worked.
Apparently a couple of recharges fixes the battery issue. Don't know why but it does. So far at least.
Hi
I just updated my gear s2 classic yesterday with the new ota, my battery doesn't even last for 2 hours now, before it gave me 1_1.5 days. In battery usage it shows 22% usage by contacts and 19% watchface even though I'm using the stock with no customization and even the background is same as default for menus.
I've denied the permission for gear plug in for contacts even then the drain is too fast.
How can we fix this, any ideas.