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My phone has been acting really weird the last few day. I had [ROM][MTD]CyanogenMod 9.0.0-rc2 UNOFFICIAL by TeamAcid[R5][Jul-20-2012 installed on my phone. But it would crash all of the time. Afterwards when the phone rebooted the battery would go from 100% to 9%. If I dont boot the phone back up right after a crash and wait a little while. When I boot it up the battery will be around 40-45%. I used [Heimdall][One-Click] The T959V Heimdall One-Click Collection [05/20/2012] earlier today, Just to see if I continued to have the battery problem. I only had the phone crash once while on the stock rom, and the battery did drain about 50% but I also started having a problem where I would lose my data connection all together. Rebooting the phone brought it back, only to lose it again after around 30min to 1hr. It has not crashed for about 3hrs now and I have not lost my data connection either. Anyone have any ideas what might be going on here? I tried deleting the battery stats with the battery at 100% before going back to stock but that did not seem to help at all. I downloaded a batter calibrator from the market place and tried that as well. Used it when the battery was at 100%. None of this has worked. Now that im back on the stock rom its only crashed once, but the battery did still drain. Any ideas? I would really like to go back to CyanogenMod 9 but its not worth it if the phone continuously crashes and kills the battery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Try Gremlins Remover.
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So you don't waste any more time, "battery calibration" is snake oil, lithium ion batteries don't need "conditioning" (and actually suffer from both high temperatures and deep discharge cycles), but the moon is made of cheese. Ok, at least the first two are true.
As you're having problems with one of the most stable and reliable GB ROMs for this phone, I suspect that you may have one or more of:
Bad battery
Bad user-land applications
Corrupt application data
Corrupt media data (for example, music on your microSD)
Bad phone
Bad luck
A "start over" approach with a complete clean-out either using the above-mentioned one-click, or doing the equivalent by hand (wiping all partitions, flashing stock, starting with a fresh microSD), then seeing how the phone/battery behaves without any apps would be the path I would take. If it passed that, I'd slowly start adding back apps, and only restoring data/preferences where you really need them.
Im doing the gremlin remover right now. I will let you guys know how to goes. Thanks for the advise, this has been driving me crazy.
Tried the gremlin remover last night and played with my phone today. Its still crashing and then when I boot it up back the battery is pretty much dead... I think i have a bad battery. Never had these problems with the phone before. Thanks for the help guys. I guess Ill get a new battery and see if that fixes the problem.
I have this EXACT same problem. I'm on AOKP and the battery with go from having a decent charge and die. Then if I take the batt out, hold the power button for 15 secs and let the phone sit with no batt for 10 minutes or so, the phone will go back to around 50% batt life. After gremlin remover and Bryan's one click back to stock multiple times, I've finally come to the conclusion that I need a new battery.
I ordered a new battery today. I will let you know how it goes.
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Mine does the same thing... doesn't really crash often.. once in a blue moon. But if I reboot. . I get that instant battery drain ...GR didn't fix it.... I just attribute it to ageing battery.
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So I looked I to this issue more. For anyone having this problem, remove the battery and place it on a hard flat surface to see if it has swollen any, if it has then the battery is defective. My battery actually rocks a little. I could actually tell it had swollen before I even put it on my desk.
That is only for seeing whether a cell has busted. It is normal wear and tear. That is kind of like how u lose battery life after hundreds of cycles because it is just how the current li-ion battery technologies work.
I would download the one click and also reflash boot loaders and repartition your device.
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Tried that, even with bootloaders. OP also stated they used gremlin remover as well. As we we're both having the exact same problem, I was giving him a better solution that wasn't the standard "reflash, repartition, etc."
I finally got my new battery in. And all is well now. Thanks everyone for the advice and help
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thats crazy swapping you battery worked. lol, mine does it too. not so much the crashing just a simple reboot and it will be drop down from 70% to 1%. This was doing the same thing with my phone before my charging port got busted. So i had to swap out the guts from my old galaxy s with broken screen. When i put the new internals in i started with bh's one click back to stock and flashed antonx kernal. Then flashed cm9 and it still does it. i will try a new battery as well.
My thought (AFTER being solved)
Well, I don't mean to come off as rude, but come on guys! I've had this problem for a while, and as soon as it happened I knew I needed a new battery. On top of my phone being somewhat "old", the fact we all play around with it so much, and do so many battery pulls most likely does NOT help the matter. At least I screw around with my phone and try out many ROMs...
But I'm glad I have confirmation that a battery swap will do the trick. It sucks that stores don't carry the t959v battery anymore... Guess I'll be ordering online tonight.
My Wife's unrooted S2 runing the stock ICS is having issues with battery charge.
She has had it for about 1 month.
The past week she can no longer charge it past 70% (this value is continually dropping). It will go to 100% if the phone is charging while off for 12+hours but then as soon as it turns on the battery drops to 75%.
I have read of pulling the battery for a while, Plug in the phone pop in the battery and power on immediately but this has done nothing.
I have not rooted and tried other roms on her phone yet since we may have to return it.
Any suggestions?
BTW... Sorry for one more battery thread. Just didn't find the solution with my searching.
Bring it in. Maybe a new battery
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Replace it under warranty, will be easier than anything else.
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Bring it in. Maybe a new battery
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That was my thought just wanted to check if there were any other magic tricks out there.
Thanks
So just as an update I tried a few things that did not work. Wiped battery stats. Charged the phone with different chargers. Tried cm10. Got a new battery. Reflashed gingerbread.
The maximum charge varied from 50% to 80%
I wiped the phone and will return it.
I am giving this update since I received a pm from the someone with the same problem
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I'm having issues of the phone rebooting by itself and consequently draining ~90% of the battery when it does so. I've tried flashing a bunch of different ROMS to see if I can stop it from happening, but to no avail. I'd like to go completely from scratch and hopefully I can get to a point where the phone works for an entire day without crashing. I've been using the HD2 instead of the SGS4G for a couple months now, so I'm a bit rusty, which is why I came here to ask for suggestions. This is what I was planning on doing:
- Flash one of these stock ROMs in order to get back to where I started.
- Format my SD card completely and let the phone convert it back to EXT4
- And then flash either Barebone or Valhalla
Do you guys think this would be sufficient enough to remove the problem that's causing these reboot & battery drains?
I would flash eollies kj6 with the blastoff v2 if your not planning on going to ics after because that's the latest gb kernel available and then flash Valhalla or barebones (then you might have to flash blastoff again can't remember right now but it should say in the op of each rom). And I'm pretty sure when you one click back to gb that will convert back ext4 so I would format SD card and reload it before you one click back. Good luck friend
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Thanks for your input! Do you think the gremlin remover is necessary, or is it overkill in the context of what I'm doing?
If you want quick and easy use my one click the other two listed is just kernels.
As for getting battery life on ICS flavored roms, well take the time using BBS and STT to figure out whats killing your battery. As long as Im not jumping between wifi and mobile data I can go around 15 hours on a battery. And I havent spent tons of time to figure out why Im not getting more battery life. But others like jeffsf has. And with that I can honestly say if your not getting battery life comparable to GB roms its YOUR fault not the rom. Most ICS roms have stuff built in that you have to use a app for. Therefore a GB rom with nothing installed will get better battery life. But once you put your stuff on and start running the battery life is not being compared properly. The reason for this is most people will keep a app just because they are use to it and not even know the ICS rom has it built in.
I personally think most of our batteries - if still using the one that came with the phone - are starting to run their course. New batteries are inexpensive on Amazon.
I think you guys are misunderstanding my issue. My problem isn't the battery draining quickly over a certain amount of time due to regular use. My problem is that once my phone crashes and reboots, the battery will literally go from whatever percentage I was at, all the way down to below 10%. I can be at 90% battery, and if my phone crashes, it will be on low battery once it powers back up. I'm not sure what's causing the crashes, which is why I'm just trying to start at step 1 and work my way from there.
To test if it was the battery simply draining out very quickly, I turned brightness to 100% and turned WiFi & GPS on, and disallowed the screen from turning off. The battery drained normally.
That happens to me... It gets fixed by shutting down and taking out the battery for 30 seconds.
Sounds like a bad battery
i had the same issue and also would get diff battery levels when booting with or without charger plugged in...i used a toool from market to calibrate battery. i cant remember exact app but will post back if i find it.
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it was "Battery Calibration"
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and i had to do it a couple of times to get it to set in.
Like thecontroller stated its a bug and you should be able to correct it by pulling the battery out and waiting a few extra seconds. If it does it still hold the power button down for a little while with the battery out.
Do this next time you have a crash on ics. Time how long it takes for the phone to restart. It is seems abnormally long you could have some scripts that are running on boot that is causing issues.
Calibrating the battery can be done manually. All you have to do is delete the batterystat.bin file. That is all those apps do. And really If you fully charge your battery it should be deleting itself.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1445698
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Originally Posted by kalel29 So,all the battery calibration tutorials are useless???????
In a nutshell, yes. You are only putting extra stress on your battery by "tricking" it according to various calibration guides. Batterystats.bin file is generated for a reason. Batterystats.bin is in /data partition, so after you install a new ROM that wipes your previous data, it gets wiped too. So, "Wipe battery stats after installing a new ROM", which is a cliche among those guides, is pointless. Last but not least, batterystats file is simply a logging tool that monitors your battery behavior. The "stats" part is pretty self-explanatory. The actual Power Manager lies in kernel, not in /data partition which accessible to anyone.
SBD all that info is true. But if you use the aroma installer it will backup and restore the data partition. Not sure if it will restore the batterystat.bin file or not. That is why I posted what I did. I do not believe in calibrating batteries as much as making sure they file is not storing data that is out of date.
As you guys mentioned earlier ...hard resets are the best ....I find our batteries do go bad. And when they do....they do all kinds of odd things to the device
m4127440 said:
i had the same issue and also would get diff battery levels when booting with or without charger plugged in...i used a toool from market to calibrate battery. i cant remember exact app but will post back if i find it.
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by NéMa
and i had to do it a couple of times to get it to set in.
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Battery calibrations are garbage. They do nothing. The file that any battery calibration app deletes is deleted by Android anytime you do a full charge anyway.
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lumin30 said:
I personally think most of our batteries - if still using the one that came with the phone - are starting to run their course. New batteries are inexpensive on Amazon.
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Not to mention the screen. Was in Costco last week, saw the old T959V on display and held mine up to it. Screen is faded bad I don't know if any of you else have noticed that lol
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Okay, so I formatted my SD card, and flashed Eollie's KJ6 using Heimdall. After that, I flashed Raver's Valhalla Black.
Initially, I didn't install anything extra other than updating gmail and superuser. Everything worked fine, apart from one random reboot. Once it booted back up, everything was normal. Today, I installed around 5 apps. I was using one of those apps (Reddit Is Fun), and while using it, the phone crashed. Once my phone booted back up this time, everything force closed, and log provider force closed over and over. I had someone text me, and right after they did my phone just crashed. I tried fixing permissions, but that didn't do anything.
Any suggestions?
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I just factory reset and tried reflashing Valhalla Black, but everything just force closes again even on a fresh install.
Boy I don't know what the hell you're doing but you are doing something very wrong.
Flash back to stock (complete stock). http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
Then flash AntonX http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19601810&postcount=2
Once you do that, flash a ROM.
I just went through the same issue. This was going on rarely for several weeks then got more frequent. I have a couple of extra batteries that T-Mobile sent me when I first got the phone....swapped in one and its been 10 days without a single issue. Before posting here tonight I put my old battery back in and guess what? Symptoms came back within 30 minutes....so....
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Then there's your answer, you need a new battery my friend
Just so weird, I don't see how a battery can affect the OS in that way haha. I've ordered a new battery anyway, they're only like $5 on Amazon, but I'm gonna try your steps anyway, controller. Thanks a lot guys.
I have galaxy SII SGH-I727 the battery after a full charge last 1 hour idle mode , also when I plug it to charger I get a pop up message saying "battery overheated charging disconnected"
I tried factory reset , I replaced the battery and cleaned the USB slot but none of these solved the issue, I took it to Samsung repair center, they didn't bother looking at it as they just wanted to replace the motherboard which it is as expensive as new phone.
the battery is not really hot when that message pop up.
the phone is not rooted and I rather not to get involved in it
So before I give up on this phone, does anyone know a way to fix it ?
Regards
If it was mine, I'd root it. Then get betterBatteryStats and figure out what was causing the battery drain. Something is using a massive amount of battery for it to get hot. Rooting the i727 is very easy
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jd1639 thx for your reply.
like I mentioned , the battery is not really hot when that message come up, I even replace the battery and I get same message few mins after plugging the phone to charge. as for rooting, I am not an advanced user, so I am not sure how rooting would help
There might be some dust or lint jumping the contacts. Take it apart and clean it.
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I have a strange issue with my S7582 . I was experiencing battery drain problems with my 2 year old phone since a while. Its battery started bulging out , so i thought replacing with a new one will solve the issue. The issue with the old battery was that it shutdowns immediately as it reaches 40 - 50 %. also the center home button was working only sometimes. After i replaced the battery ,i charged it and started using it. I observed that the issue was still the same previously the phone switched off at 40 % abruptly, now it shows battery level drop like 40,39,38..etc(1 % per sec) and goes off and shut downs. I gave the phone for servicing suspecting water leakage or board short circuit. But they told that its perfect, no issues with the board.
I am using wifi and 3g data on a daily basis and this phone gives me back up only half a day. I have only minimum no. of apps installed- (whatsapp,imo,uc mini lite ..).
Can anyone help me out.
Calibrate the battery!
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I have a strange issue with my S7582 . I was experiencing battery drain problems with my 2 year old phone since a while. Its battery started bulging out , so i thought replacing with a new one will solve the issue. The issue with the old battery was that it shutdowns immediately as it reaches 40 - 50 %. also the center home button was working only sometimes. After i replaced the battery ,i charged it and started using it. I observed that the issue was still the same previously the phone switched off at 40 % abruptly, now it shows battery level drop like 40,39,38..etc(1 % per sec) and goes off and shut downs. I gave the phone for servicing suspecting water leakage or board short circuit. But they told that its perfect, no issues with the board.
I am using wifi and 3g data on a daily basis and this phone gives me back up only half a day. I have only minimum no. of apps installed- (whatsapp,imo,uc mini lite ..).
Can anyone help me out.
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Hi, I think your phone is sticking to your old battery's 'batterystats.bin' file. If you are rooted, download this small application from playstore ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en ). Install it and grant the root permisssions for it. And keep it for charging, and then wait till 100% charge. And then tap on calibrate. It shows 'Calibration Succeed' . Done. Hit Thanks if helped! :good:
Same issue here
I'm having the exact same issue, tried calibrating, didn't help. Bought a new battery (the previous became really fat), no changes. I'm about to try a -supossedly- long lasting non original battery, hoping that turns the phone useful again.
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jay965 said:
Hi, I think your phone is sticking to your old battery's 'batterystats.bin' file. If you are rooted, download this small application from playstore ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en ). Install it and grant the root permisssions for it. And keep it for charging, and then wait till 100% charge. And then tap on calibrate. It shows 'Calibration Succeed' . Done. Hit Thanks if helped! :good:
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I googled that a lot, and even thought many people mentioned it, that file seems to be there for a different purpose than keeping the battery callibration. It is used to store actual "battery stats", which are shown on the "battery" section at "Settings". I'm pretty that calibration must be the solution, but haven't found any way to do it properly.
Try this!
nhermosilla14 said:
I'm having the exact same issue, tried calibrating, didn't help. Bought a new battery (the previous became really fat), no changes. I'm about to try a -supossedly- long lasting non original battery, hoping that turns the phone useful again.
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I googled that a lot, and even thought many people mentioned it, that file seems to be there for a different purpose than keeping the battery callibration. It is used to store actual "battery stats", which are shown on the "battery" section at "Settings". I'm pretty that calibration must be the solution, but haven't found any way to do it properly.
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Try re-installing your ROM or give a hard reset. I suggest you take a backup of all your current data somewhere safe.
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Try re-installing your ROM or give a hard reset. I suggest you take a backup of all your current data somewhere safe.
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I have hard rest my phone many times and also had installed different rom but in cm12.1 this problem is not so major try it
mee tooo
Punit Gurnani said:
I have hard rest my phone many times and also had installed different rom but in cm12.1 this problem is not so major try it
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i have this same problem
Install the latest cm12.1 the 21 feb build it fixes this prob
when i put my phone to lock and see after sme time it off, cant on it, but when remove battry nd put it again only it can be switched on, please help me
Hi !! I too have same problem with my battery. I bought non-original battery ( ERD battery) for my duos 2. Using it since one week. Working fine ?
same problem with me. how to solve it?
same problem with me. how to solve it?
QUOTE=ajeshvv;64860247]I have a strange issue with my S7582 . I was experiencing battery drain problems with my 2 year old phone since a while. Its battery started bulging out , so i thought replacing with a new one will solve the issue. The issue with the old battery was that it shutdowns immediately as it reaches 40 - 50 %. also the center home button was working only sometimes. After i replaced the battery ,i charged it and started using it. I observed that the issue was still the same previously the phone switched off at 40 % abruptly, now it shows battery level drop like 40,39,38..etc(1 % per sec) and goes off and shut downs. I gave the phone for servicing suspecting water leakage or board short circuit. But they told that its perfect, no issues with the board.
I am using wifi and 3g data on a daily basis and this phone gives me back up only half a day. I have only minimum no. of apps installed- (whatsapp,imo,uc mini lite ..).
Can anyone help me out.[/QUOTE]