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LG G2X Battery Drain Fix

Out of the box my phone was terrible on battery. It would go dead sitting idle after only 5-6hrs.
It was using over 150mA consistently just sitting idle, compared to 2-5mA now after doing a reset...something in the initial config...and maybe in the several lockups I experienced, must have done something bad.
Cycle the battery by letting it drain all the way down until you cant even turn it on.
Perform a full factory reset and let the phone charge fully before loading the phone up with 3rd party apps just to make sure you dont introduce anything new to the scenario that may drain battery life.
After the factory reset and battery cycling it works how I expect it to...glad I didnt get angry and return it right away.
*Factory Reset*
Settings-Privacy-Factory Data Reset
Few additional things I have found. since initial post...
1. I confirmed several times that qik video is a complete piece of junk and drains the battery, after factory reset dont re-configure it.
2. In settings-location & security settings DO NOT enable Use GPS satellites unless you really need to use specific GPS data for navigation...when indoors the GPS keeps looking for signal and drains the battery very quick.
3. Bluetooth seems to have an issue and is not power friendly at all...I have mine turn on at scheduled times only using an app.
Other Disclaimers:
As has been posted elsewhere the battery drivers are poor at best, you cannot trust the numbers being reported back. What I can confirm is that the factory reset gave me a useable phone for a lot longer than the 5-6 hrs I started with when the phone would physically turn off....regardless of misreporting battery status. So basically do the reset and keep the offending apps/processes off until a better version comes out, and dont trust the reported battery percentage.
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Shrug... never had an issue. When I got the phone, I let it die before charging. Charged it up to 100% and have enjoyed a battery life that exceeds my N1 by at least 100%

momentarylapseofreason said:
Shrug... never had an issue. When I got the phone, I let it die before charging. Charged it up to 100% and have enjoyed a battery life that exceeds my N1 by at least 100%
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My battery is fine also. I'm on hour 10 and just now got yellow indicator or just now at %30. This is without conditioning and without factory reset.

jink25 said:
Out of the box my phone was terrible on battery. It would go dead sitting idle after only 5-6hrs.
It was using over 150mA consistently just sitting idle, compared to 2-5mA now after doing a reset...something in the initial config...and maybe in the several lockups I experienced, must have done something bad.
Cycle the battery by letting it drain all the way down until you cant even turn it on.
Perform a full factory reset and let the phone charge fully before loading the phone up with 3rd party apps just to make sure you dont introduce anything new to the scenario that may drain battery life.
After the factory reset and battery cycling it works how I expect it to...glad I didnt get angry and return it right away.
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Nice info. I appreciate you taking the time to give a detailed report.
When first getting a phone, I always drain it and charge it up 100%. Doing a factory reset isn't a bad idea at all...

The battery drain issue doesnt seem to be an issue for many..obviously there is some sort of problem for others though...thats why I provided the documentation to show it happening.
...others also have not had the lockup/reboot issue, which I had too...maybe they are somehow related? Either way a factory reset did the trick...draining the battery to 0 was just for good measure just in case.

Yeah umm... when I downloaded that battery monitor widget its reporting a 1200 mAH battery... hmm...

runderekrun said:
Yeah umm... when I downloaded that battery monitor widget its reporting a 1200 mAH battery... hmm...
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Thats becuase you need to input your battery rating, default is 1200...The values are ESTIMATED ONLY, and were used to just graph change over time.

runderekrun said:
Yeah umm... when I downloaded that battery monitor widget its reporting a 1200 mAH battery... hmm...
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Same here.... is 1200 just the default value?

dalepa said:
Same here.... is 1200 just the default value?
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Yes default is 1200...set the value to 1500.

Yes im getting less than adequate battery life iwill try this when I get home. So far ive been having to charge twice a day just to get through the day.
Thanks for the tip.
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Ah I see. Hey btw how do I factory reset this beast?
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runderekrun said:
Ah I see. Hey btw how do I factory reset this beast?
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Settings-Privacy-Factory Data Reset

Thanks home-slice
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Going on 16Hrs now without a charge and still with 24% left.
This graph is now including a nearly 2 hr phone call, playing a video over HDMI to my TV and a bunch of texting.
Notice the steeper decline in battery during the phone call has a nearly identical slope to the pre factory reset portion of the graph...which just shows how much battery it was draining off before for no good reason.

Battery life has definitely been improving for me on the second and third charge.

Im still having drain issues... .i wonder if I need to leave it charging even after 100% like you did...

jink25 said:
The battery drain issue doesnt seem to be an issue for many..obviously there is some sort of problem for others though...thats why I provided the documentation to show it happening.
...others also have not had the lockup/reboot issue, which I had too...maybe they are somehow related? Either way a factory reset did the trick...draining the battery to 0 was just for good measure just in case.
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My G2X is working perfect without all the issues some are addressing. As for battery life, I did have some phones before where it was horrible.
My theory is: If a phone comes with a faulty battery, it may be spiking (power) and making the device go wacko ... hence, memory loss, random reboots etc...
Since my few experiences with faulty batteries, I've just always stuck with the rule: "Go with only factory OEM parts or except a higher failure rate with knock off made in china batteries..."

dalepa said:
Im still having drain issues... .i wonder if I need to leave it charging even after 100% like you did...
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The factory reset was the main factor that fixed the issue for me.
Discharging the battery fully then recharging to 100% may help in that it will calibrate the electronics and get a truly 100 percent charge.

dalepa said:
Im still having drain issues... .i wonder if I need to leave it charging even after 100% like you did...
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It's actually good to do so.
Drain the battery completely (best before you sleep) ...make sure the phone shuts off by itself from low battery. Usually I play a game or watch youtube to drain it...
Plug it in and let it charge while you sleep...
The phone will have charged* to 100% long before you awake. *The extra hours it's been plugged in til' you awake. (I've noticed that our phone charges super fast. Anyone else?)
When you wake, unplug the phone from the charger.
Then turn it off and turn it back on...refresh it..
You're good to go...
Note: It's always nice to restart your phone, after you've been using heavy apps, especially HD recording, taking pictures etc... With all my smart phones I've noticed that the phone can tweak out at times after heavy use.
Hope this helps...

Ok yeah. I factory reset and battery is a ton better! When I first saw you post that you fixed it with a factory reset I was skeptical but after trying it, yeah it works. Battery (so far!) has been much better after the reset. I wonder if it was the root that messed us up?
Jinx did you root?

[Q] [HELP] Battery gremlins

I've noticed that a bunch of people are running into battery usage issues recently and I'm one of them. I'm looking for a clean cut way to get back to great battery life. There has to be some funky crap going on that can easily be cleared with some Odin flashing, but I'm not entirely sure what to do.
I achieved great battery life last time by flashing to stock ED1 (stockrootedED1-20110517.tar) then accepted the OTA for EE4. After this, my memory gets hazy. I can't remember what I did after this, but I think I flashed some version of Altered Beast via Odin. I eventually went over to GummyCharged 1.5 and had amazing battery life.
Last week I started going a bit nuts with installing themes and updating the new ROM versions, and now my phone has crappy battery life. I tried flashing various Odin packages but I'm not having any luck getting that good battery life back.
And the fact that Odin is a flaky piece of crap doesn't help. Please do not post "use Heimdall," because I wanted to get something posted for Odin users and that would ruin the point.
Thank you in advance!
EDIT: Danalo's Odin bundle had a bad download link last night so I couldn't test that out. I'm giving that a shot now to see if that clears the battery drain issue.

Whoops, I'm probably going to get bashed for not posting this in the General forum despite the fact that his is a specific issue. Sorry in advance, imnuts.
And please, do not point me to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1132726. That thread is useless.
EDIT: Proof that my battery didn't suck:
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Nope. Just flashed the Odin bundle that danalo made and my battery dropped from 85%-84% while going through the initial setup.
This is crap. What the heck is going on?

I'm having the same experience. I've tried GC and Altered beast - different kernels.. every combo gives me terrible battery. I had to send my phone back to verizon so I was running stock EE4 for about a week and it was significantly better battery than any of the custom roms. I've tried wiping everything, battery life, cache, factory, even wiped my @$$ every time I changed anything and those gremlin bastards are still chugging my battery life.
I think this is a good section (development) for this post to see if anyone can actually figure out the problem, I've seen several posts claiming to fix the problem in the different development threads and none of them are legit.

Yeah, flashing the Odin bundle that danalo made did not help I don't understand what is causing the issue.
After flashing the Odin bundle, my batter y dropped from 85% to 84% while running through the setup process (log into Google, etc.). Ridiculous. Then I went outside for a smoke and checked out some web pages.
My battery is now at 67% and it has only been ~35minutes since I flashed the Odin bundle. How can a battery drop from 85% to 67% in that short of time?
Voodoo is disabled.

Well here is my solution
I just ordered this back pack looking thing from new egg, it looks like the old ghost busters proton pack but has mini usb port. it weighs 30lbs but now my charge can stay plugged in and make it through a 12 hour day

That'll do! Or this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14685613&postcount=459
I found one of my posts where I laid out my steps to obtain EE4 radios with custom kernels/ROMs. I'm trying this now.

You really can't judge battery life until a few days after you flash something, due to battery calibration.

I can judge it if it's dropping 1% per minute.

Ive been having this issue too, if you click on my name and click on my posts, i have posted a crap ton on this issue.
the standard response I seem to get is "you flashed wrong"
this is not my first time around the block.
however, kejar31 posted an exact method to flashing and resetting battery stats. I have reset battery stats, and did the charge up thing, but never in the order he stated. so I am going to do it exactly.
refer to this post (1105) by kejar31
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116086&page=111
I will report back once this is completed.

This was happening to my phone where it would start charged at 7 am and die by 3 pm with no use at all. What i did to fix it was install the new Cwm test.tar and then install the touchwiz 4 theme. i then installed pbj kernel (non oc) and charged it to 100% and wiped battery stats. then i let it die and recharged it and wiped battery stats again. Worked like a charm. my battery can now easily run the whole day and still have 40% by 10 pm. And the touchwiz 4 theme is really nice. gets rid of the terribly ugly brown and orange theme and you are still on stock ee4. you can use debloated if you want but custom roms always destroy the battery on this phone for now. And if you wait another day, p3droid is going to release leaked gingerbread on the team blackhat app. that will surely be amazing because on my DROID X, on froyo the battery life would be good, and it would be amazing with an undervolt. But with gingerbread, i got better battery completely stock than with undervolted froyo. Gingerbread will be amazing. here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crt5xhLWmnM

mikey6p said:
You really can't judge battery life until a few days after you flash something, due to battery calibration.
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Where are you getting this information? This sounds completely false. And it's not going to calibrate from 5 hours of idle battery time to an acceptable amount.

rami98 said:
What i did to fix it was install the new Cwm test.tar
i then installed pbj kernel (non oc)
you can use debloated if you want but custom roms always destroy the battery on this phone for now.
And if you wait another day, p3droid is going to release leaked gingerbread on the team blackhat app.
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1. Can you post a link to the CWM test.tar you're referring to?
2. Also post a link to the PBJT kernel you're referring to.
3. I was using GummyCharged after the EE4 update and had incredibly awesome battery life. I'm not exactly sure which update screwed up my battery life, but I had installed various themes and updated GC when the battery nightmares began. Since then, I've flashed various packages and have not had any luck getting back to great battery life.
4. How do you know the Gingerbread leak is coming out tomorrow?!
EDIT: I followed this post in hopes that it would clear my battery usage issue, but sadly, it did not - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14660877&postcount=1

I just followed the battery wipe instructions to a T.
I went from 98% battery to 92% battery in less than 10 min during setup and installing XDA.
This is my usage stats (tracked by me)
I was running stock EE4, no root, stock kernel.
i was getting 12 to 15 hours of battery with moderate heavy use.
I unplug my phone at 7am every day, and plug it back in at 10pm. my average battery percent at 10pm over the course of 5 days is 26%.
Using gummy, starting with 1.7 through 1.85 with the same usage, unplugging at 7am ever morning, I did not make it till 10pm without charging. not once.
I have data for 8 days using gummy, unplugging at 7am, on average I was able to make it to 1pm before getting the battery dead warning.
After reading all the posts on the "proper" flashing method, today I followed the directions exactly.
To re-cap this is what I did:
1) From a stock phone at 100% battery, I powered down the phone
2) Removed the battery
3) Removed the SD card
4) Plugged the phone into the PC, holding volume down to enter download mode
5) fired up odin 1.30
6) using odin, I pressed the PDA button, and selected "New_CWM_Recovery.tar"
7) once flashed, I removed the USB cable, replaced the battery, held "home", "volume up" and "power" to enter recovery.
8) inside recovery, i wiped user data, wiped cache, wiped davlik cache, wiped battery stats.
9) I powered down the phone, and repeated steps 7 and 8
10) I then installed ZIP "0602_charge_voodoo.zip"
11) I restarted phone and repeated steps 7 and 8
12) Installed "GummyCharged1.8.5" and booted the phone.
while typing this post (about 10 min) my phone has dropped 4% battery.
I will use the phone until the battery dies completely, I will then charge it back up to 100% and , according to every other person, this should fix my battery and the phone will run all day.
I will update shortly.

I guess I'll report my findings as well...
I received my phone yesterday and had flashed the PBJ kernel and GummyCharged before it even finished charging up for the first time. Didn't wipe battery stats or do any other battery-related tweaks. Let it finish charging last night and kept it plugged in all through the night. Got up at 7am and took it off charge at about 7:30...
It's now noon and I've got 85% left. Data connection is on (3G) with steady coverage, all other radios are off. Most of the time has been spent in my pocket or idle on my desk, but I've also downloaded/configured a few apps and used gmail and SMS. I have NoLED running but the notifications haven't had to stay on much since I'm at my work computer and the phone is sitting right next to me.
My previous phone was a Droid 2 running the Fission ROM and during a normal day's use I'd dip as low as 60% at worst... I'm guessing I might get near the bottom of the bucket with the Charge, but we'll have to see how it actually goes.
edit: 1:30pm now and at 83%...

msticlaru said:
I just followed the battery wipe instructions to a T.
I went from 98% battery to 92% battery in less than 10 min during setup and installing XDA.
After reading all the posts on the "proper" flashing method, today I followed the directions exactly.
To re-cap this is what I did:
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Haha, dude, I did the same exact thing as you earlier today and I'm in the same boat -- still having crappy battery life!

letsgophillyingeneral said:
Haha, dude, I did the same exact thing as you earlier today and I'm in the same boat -- still having crappy battery life!
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are you using the imnuts pbjt kernel ? im starting to think this may be kernel related.
also, i was discussing this in the IRC channel, and someone told me it had to do with formatting the SD card? Im not sure what he was talking about. im going to research that further.

i am posting some of the stats I have collected this far.
this is my 4 hour comparison chart.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12361411/4_hr_comps.pdf
These tests were done using the same apps and same pattern of usage. in all cases, Bluetooth was off, wi-fi was on and I am consistently in a 3g coverage area with good signal.

msticlaru said:
are you using the imnuts pbjt kernel ? im starting to think this may be kernel related.
also, i was discussing this in the IRC channel, and someone told me it had to do with formatting the SD card? Im not sure what he was talking about. im going to research that further.
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Yeah, but I was using the PBJT kernel 1-2 weeks ago when I had insanely good battery life. So I'm not so sure that it's the kernel
I just flashed the Gingerbread leak in hopes that it'll help with poor battery life.

I'm in the same boat as you guys. I was running stock rooted with imnuts' PBJT (non overclocked) kernel and getting crazy good battery life. It was the same as it was when I was completely stock. Since messing around with custom ROMs, I've had a nosedive in battery life. I used to go to work and put my phone in airplane mode when I got there due to extremely poor cell coverage in the building and would lose at most 2% over 2-3 hrs. Now, I lose 7% or more. I really enjoy GummyCharged and I don't want to go back to stock, but I don't know what to do. Like you guys, I've tried a lot of these black magic rituals of wiping/flashing orders to clear up my battery issue, but I've had no luck.
Right now, I've at 55% battery life left after 10 hrs 40 minutes, which sounds pretty great, but my phone was in airplane mode and sitting in my pocket for 7 hrs 30 minutes of that time. Its not completely awful, but its not what I was getting before. Also, when using the phone to do something light like return a few texts via Google Voice, I can watch the battery meter count down. :\ If you guys have a method to try that you want me to be a guinea pig for, let me know.

[Q] Battery stuck at 100% | 1 hour no charger still 100% | cannot charge battery now

The Problem
As the title mentioned in the title my Battery is stuck at 100%, I've left it for an hour without the charger and it's still stuck at 100%. I plug the charger back in and the phone thinks it's fully charged so it doesn't charge.
I've turned my phone off and am awaiting instructions on a fix because if my battery goes flat I won't be able to charge it and my phone will be useless.
When it happened
I don't know when it happened exactly but I was getting S-OFF using the JUOPUNUTBEAR method as I had a H-BOOT of 1.27.0000 which revolutionary.io couldn't S-OFF.
Once I got S-OFF I installed LeeDroid ROM and then I noticed my battery was stuck at 100%.
What I've tried
Using a different battery (I have OEM and Anker)
Changing ROM to Android Revolution HD
Extra Information
While changing Roms I installed 4EXT Touch Recovery which in Recovery mode it has it's own Battery Meter, they also said the battery was full (though I didn't unplug it for long)
I have the same 100% stuck problem with Android Revolution HD, I'm starting to get worried and yes I have waited an hour without the charger connected and still have this problem.

Does it do this with all Rom? Have you tried to calibrate, possiably app might allow you to change the configuration? I'm just guessing here, hopefully you will find a fix. I've never heard of this before, this is a new one. Perhaps someone with more knowledge can help! Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G

Have you tried using it heavily for 30 minutes like playing a game or something?

I experienced this issue but its only with some roms. I left my phone on overnight not charging (8pm-11am) when I last use the phone and it still said 100%.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA

try wiping battery stats first
use battery monitor widget or battery calibration app or from recovery(4EXT ->wipe|format->wipe battery stats )
then if it still didnt fix the issue
try another ROM or reflash the same rom...but before doing that ...
i want you to wipe everything using inbuilt 4EXT wipe feature not superwipe
(4EXT-> wipe|format ->format all partitions except sdcard)
then flash the rom
if its still fix the issue
flash an RUU (this will cleanup everything)

ganeshp said:
try wiping battery stats first
use battery monitor widget or battery calibration app or from recovery(4EXT ->wipe|format->wipe battery stats )
then if it still didnt fix the issue
try another ROM or reflash the same rom...but before doing that ...
i want you to wipe everything using inbuilt 4EXT wipe feature not superwipe
(4EXT-> wipe|format ->format all partitions except sdcard)
then flash the rom
if its still fix the issue
flash an RUU (this will cleanup everything)
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I wiped battery stats from 4EXT recovery which hasn't fixed this issue.
I will re-flash Android Revolution using your instructions tomorrow.
If my battery goes flat during an ROM install what's the worst that could happen, could I completely brick my phone or could I still access recovery to restore my ROM Backup, or re-install ARHD ROM from 4EXT.
If all that fails what would be a good RUU to flash? would I then have to make my phone S-OFF again?
Thanks for your time, it's much appreciated.

dmk0 said:
I wiped battery stats from 4EXT recovery which hasn't fixed this issue.
I will re-flash Android Revolution using your instructions tomorrow.
If my battery goes flat during an ROM install what's the worst that could happen, could I completely brick my phone or could I still access recovery to restore my ROM Backup, or re-install ARHD ROM from 4EXT.
If all that fails what would be a good RUU to flash? would I then have to make my phone S-OFF again?
Thanks for your time, it's much appreciated.
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If the battery runs out just leave it to charge for a while. You'll still be able to get into recovery so it doesn't really matter I think
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA

ganeshp said:
try wiping battery stats first
use battery monitor widget or battery calibration app or from recovery(4EXT ->wipe|format->wipe battery stats )
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Before I seen your post I wiped batterystats.bin with the BatteryCalibration App from the android market and didn't do anything. As I explain below I got it to work with 4EXT recovery wiping battery stats, but I thought the Battery Calibration app did the same thing. In that case I think taking the battery out and in for a second time may have worked.
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I wiped battery stats from 4EXT recovery which hasn't fixed this issue.
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Actually I waited a little longer and my phone went down to 98%. I left it on overnight and now it's 63%. It looks like it's working again.
But with further checking I noticed a couple of other weird things.
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If you look at my pictures above, here it says "Status: not charging (0mins)" & "Status: not charging (19mins)".
When I took them screenshots I hadn't had my phone on charge for over 10 hours. Oddly for very small intervals it's charging itself. At one stage I think I check it it was 75% then I checked again and it was 76%.
Something else that looks a bit odd is my phone temperature, in my screenshots you can see it says it's "11.9" & "11.6" degrees. It's over 14 degrees here in Australia how could my phone be colder than the temperature outside. I remember my phone used to be "26" degrees often. "11.6" dosen't seem right.
Do these two issues seem familiar to anyone. I know there not big problems but it would be nice to have them corrected.
EDIT: I decided to do a Backup in 4EXT and my phone was saying 55% battery and in 4EXT my phone says it was 62% why the difference? Could this be a problem? which one would you think is the correct one.
EDIT2: It did go down to 55% pretty quick while doing the backup, prehaps it needed time to work out battery life.
EDIT3: Now m phone battery says it's 72%, then it quickly went down to 69%. It never used to do this before I rooted. Could this case any problems, like the battery to go too flat to the point it's unrecoverable.
Sorry for all the edits and questions, I just like to understand my phone and be sure I don't break anything

Battery percentage fluctuations are common when you just change a rom.. Even after reboot if the battery percentage goes up then within few minutes the percentage goes to its actual.. The battery requires some time to settle so when you change the rom or kernel these fluctuations do happen(remember these fluctions are in numbers only the battery charge doesn't increase Actually)
Once you use a same rom for like a week or so.. The battery stats sync up with your usage.. So no worries
Also regarding the temperature it seems like the battery you have doesn't have temperature sensors (anker doesn't have sensors too so always temperature is 11C for me)
Sent from my pyramid.. Through blazing fast sonic waves

Anker does not have a proper thermistor.

Why would you even complain when you have such great battery life? That's pretty strange
Sent from my HTC Sensation using XDA

I think I have a similar problem with yours. The issue with my sensation is that it charges up to 100% and after I unplug it the LED stays lit up green until around 85%. Once it goes lower than that, the battery icon shows that its charging and the LED stays lit red but the battery percentage is decreasing and it continues to do so until around 60% remaining. Then when it gets to 59% the LED turns off then that is only the time that the time in the battery stats starts to record how long its been on battery for me. Sometimes at full charge when I start to use the phone for heavy usage such as games, the LED starts to change to red even if its around 95% and unplugged from the charger. There are times that when the LED light is red and I plug the charger to the phones USB port and not connect it to an outlet, the LED light turns off. I don't know what caused this since I just got my Sensation from another person. Still all features are working great and am able to flash ROMs normally. Kinda a flashaholic if its even called like that. No other issues other than this. I haven't tried to use a different battery since I don't have the extra cash yet. Please bear with my long post. Thanks.

This is not a problem. This is normal.
I go to work at 100% and dont use the phone much. Several hours later it still shows 100%.
Relax. Its not a bad thing. The battery is not draining rapidly and lying to you about it.
Sent from a rebel ship by storing the message in an R2 unit. (Help me, XDA. You're my only hope)

It takes a few cycles to with right. I can use my phone for up to an hour, plug it in and the light is green. No big deal, as the phone doesn't want to overcharge the battery. As so as the percentage drops, it charges. It gets better as you use it more.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA

Weird battery issue

For the past little while my battery has been draining very quickly. It turns out that my power button wasn't grounded and stopped working soon after the battery issues started. I got the power button replaced and ordered a new battery, but now the battery is acting even weirder and I'm not sure if it's a issue with the new battery or with my phone.
The battery will drain fairly slowly (six hours to go from 90% to 50%), but will then drop from 50% to 30% in a matter of minutes and then to 13% even quicker before the phone will shut down completely. I've tried wrong the battery stats but it doesn't seem to have helped.
I'm guessing that it's a problem with the new battery, but I was wondering if anyone had experienced any similar issues? I'm going to switch back to the old battery and see how long it lets as a test but I would like to figure this out soon. Thanks
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Hi,
Maybe u can post ur battery stats to help us understand what ur using during the battery drain.
What ROM/kernel are u using?
Is the drainage during WiFi or data usage. If its data, how strong is ur signal?
There is so much that can be causing this so the more info, the better.
Oh, and is the new battery a knock-off? If so that can also be an issue.
Where did u buy it?
Thx
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vidaljs said:
Hi,
Maybe u can post ur battery stats to help us understand what ur using during the battery drain.
What ROM/kernel are u using?
Is the drainage during WiFi or data usage. If its data, how strong is ur signal?
There is so much that can be causing this so the more info, the better.
Oh, and is the new battery a knock-off? If so that can also be an issue.
Where did u buy it?
Thx
Vs Nexus S4G using tapatalk2
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My battery stats from last night were mainly screen and maps. I turned off automatic updating in maps though. I can edit this post after I use my phone a bit.
I'm on stock everything but rooted.
I always leave WiFi on, but the battery has gone from 50 to 30 to dead when I wasn't connected to a network. My signal without WiFi is normally three to four bars, and WiFi is about the same.
The new battery is more than likely a knockoff. I ordered a $10 battery from eBay (my bad).
Sorry about not paying more info. I wasn't sure what else to post. Please let me know if there's anything else you need to know. Thanks
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hoponpop said:
My battery stats from last night were mainly screen and maps. I turned off automatic updating in maps though. I can edit this post after I use my phone a bit.
I'm on stock everything but rooted.
I always leave WiFi on, but the battery has gone from 50 to 30 to dead when I wasn't connected to a network. My signal without WiFi is normally three to four bars, and WiFi is about the same.
The new battery is more than likely a knockoff. I ordered a $10 battery from eBay (my bad).
Sorry about not paying more info. I wasn't sure what else to post. Please let me know if there's anything else you need to know. Thanks
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Well if you're stock(I assume you rooted but kept the same ROM) then maybe you can change kernels
or
Look for a ROM that has the stock feel but has tweaks that can save your battery life. There are a few out there.
But you'll get arguments that stock is not always the best ROM for great battery life.
Its a personal choice so look at the ROMs and pick one after you've read the thread to see similar issues/wants from it.
Good luck

If you are on Jellybean Stock then you should seriously consider using a custom ROM because Google hasn't yet released the perfect Jellybean like they released the perfect ICS in 4.0.4 update..
Secondly, you should try cyanogenmod based ROMs whichever have been great when talking about battery life (There are really awesome ROMs out there).
And follow the below mentioned steps and observe for a full 100-0% cycle drain times and get screenshots of battery stats with screentime and post here..
1. Turn the Screen Brightness to minimum; the tolerable value for you.
2. Remove any unwanted apps.
3. Keep WiFi switched off when not in use.
4. Set the multitask value by Going to Settings -> Developer options -> Background process limit -> At most 4 processes
5. Use minimum widgets and minimum home screens if possible
6. Uncheck the location services in settings. You can switch them ON when required very easily.
7. Clear Running Apps from Settings -> Apps -> RUNNING & also by long pressing Home button.
8. Clear cache at regular intervals and always use back button rather than using Home button
If above steps make a difference then it will become your style or else change the battery and get something like from OEM.
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I took some of dark's advice, although I had already been doing a lot of that stuff. I'm not complaining about the battery life on the stock rom (I have already accepted that it's not the best), but rather the issue of having my battery drop from 50% to dead within 20 minutes, even without use (not at all normal for me). Does anyone know what could be causing that issue?

hoponpop said:
I took some of dark's advice, although I had already been doing a lot of that stuff. I'm not complaining about the battery life on the stock rom (I have already accepted that it's not the best), but rather the issue of having my battery drop from 50% to dead within 20 minutes, even without use (not at all normal for me). Does anyone know what could be causing that issue?
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How about a screen shot of ur battery stats?
There could be an app or the OS hogging up ur battery.
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vidaljs said:
How about a screen shot of ur battery stats?
There could be an app or the OS hogging up ur battery.
Vs Nexus S4G using tapatalk2
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My battery seems to be holding strong. I'm worried about what will happen when it hits 50% though.
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edit: i'm sort of wondering if my phone is reading the battery correctly. it kind of seems like six hours is a lot of uptime just to get to 50%, so the rapid drop to zero might just be because the phone isn't correctly reporting the battery's charge.
edit #2: my phone got down to ~30% battery no problem before it shut off completely. upon plugging it in to get the phone turned on, the battery had dropped to 20% and then dropped to 17% with the screen off and the phone plugged in

Clear Battery Stats
hoponpop said:
My battery seems to be holding strong. I'm worried about what will happen when it hits 50% though. View attachment 1386251View attachment 1386253
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edit: i'm sort of wondering if my phone is reading the battery correctly. it kind of seems like six hours is a lot of uptime just to get to 50%, so the rapid drop to zero might just be because the phone isn't correctly reporting the battery's charge.
edit #2: my phone got down to ~30% battery no problem before it shut off completely. upon plugging it in to get the phone turned on, the battery had dropped to 20% and then dropped to 17% with the screen off and the phone plugged in
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Your battery seems to be good enough to withstand the usage. There is one thing you can still try;
Let the battery drain completely and let the phone get switched off.
1. Now plug in the charger and on the phone go to your recovery. Here I suppose you have the latest CWM recovery.
2. Go to Advanced -> Clear Battery Stats -> Confirm by scrolling. Then reboot the phone and avoid using it before it's charged completely.
3. Now let the battery charge 100% and only after that you unplug it and don't interrupt the charge cycle.
4. Observe the changes in discharge timings. And also paste a screenshot of Screen Usage time by tapping on Settings -> Battery -> Screen (The Time on details...)

darkmentor25 said:
Your battery seems to be good enough to withstand the usage. There is one thing you can still try;
Let the battery drain completely and let the phone get switched off.
1. Now plug in the charger and on the phone go to your recovery. Here I suppose you have the latest CWM recovery.
2. Go to Advanced -> Clear Battery Stats -> Confirm by scrolling. Then reboot the phone and avoid using it before it's charged completely.
3. Now let the battery charge 100% and only after that you unplug it and don't interrupt the charge cycle.
4. Observe the changes in discharge timings. And also paste a screenshot of Screen Usage time by tapping on Settings -> Battery -> Screen (The Time on details...)
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I'll try that later. I thought you were supposed to reset battery stats when your battery was completely charged so that's how I did it the first time thanks
edit: i'm just about to reset the battery stats again. my phone decided to show 40% battery as I was walking home, but then shut off and shows 0% battery now that i'm home and have access to a charger. i'll let you know what happens once the phone is fully charged. additionally, my phone will say charged while plugged in when my battery monitor thing says that it's only at ~89%, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. thanks again

Everything seems to be going well today. I'm about 8.5 hours on battery now so I figure I'll let my phone charge a bit. Thanks again, dark. Hopefully this time it'll stick.
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Every battery exhibits different discharge curves vs voltage. The os estimates battery level based on voltage. It is possible that the batteries discharge curve is just very flat throughout with a steep drop in voltage near the end which would produce the results you are experiencing. Wiping battery stats has no bearing on this issue, google cleared up what battery stats really does over a year ago. Best suggestion is to drain the battery fully, charge to 100% and repeat the process several times. This will help both the batteries discharge curve and the os's estimation based on voltage. If the problem persists, buy another battery (preferably not a knockoff) and test again. If you are still having problems after that, you may have a hardware issue with the phone. Does not seem to be a Rom issue, otherwise the drain would be happening constantly, not just after 50%.
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[Help] (XT1032) Erratic Battery Life & Extremely Long Charging Time

Hello everyone and thanks in advance for your time.
I will try to explain as short as posible what my problem here is and what I've tryed:
Problem: Ok, so this started after I flashed my XT1032 and updated to the latest build of CM12, had some errors while flashing and had to flash a stock 4.4.4 rom, later flashed a CM11 rom to afterwards flash the current CM12 rom.
After about an hour of using the phone my battery jumped from 39% to 1% and my phone switched off , after this happened I could not turn my phone on and It did charge ither so I proceded to check around the web for a solution and the only one I found that actually worked was holding the Power key (not for 2 minutes, but for over 5 minutes) after this the phone turned on and showed 1% battery so I just left it there charging for about 2 hours, but when I came back to get my phone It had only charged 6%, this charging rates and times have changed since this problem started , sometimes charging the phone in 45 minutes, 3 hours, 26 hours and 15 hour which is the charging time im currently seeing. Besides this, I continue to get the same error where sometimes my battery is at 60% and it drops all the way down to 1% or in some situations my phone is somewhere around 20% but if I restart it (not a soft restart, an actual restart) my phone show 100% battery life, I have searched around the web and tried multiple solutions which I will list.
Solutions Tried:
-Flashing my phone once again.
-Waiting for a full charge and then wipeing battery stats.
-Full wipe.
-Cache and Dalvik wipe.
-Charging 100%, drain battery, charge to 100% and then drain battery again.
-Using different chargers (0.5a, 0.7a, 1a)
-Using the original moto g charger.
-Charge using PC.
None of this have worked or shown any type o progress.
I did have a water damage problem with the phone about 2 months ago but the phone was not affected by it in any way.
If anyone can manage to help me with this issue or give me some feedback I would be really greatful.
Update:
Phone seemed to charge properlly with a 2A charger, took about 45 minutes to charge but afterwards it discharged in under 30 minutes and Im back at 17 to fully charge.

No one else running across this problem?
It seems that I am the only one currently having this problem, has anyone else ever encountered this?

Sorry to keep on posting here, but I really want to know if im the only one running across this problem...

Iggyavendano said:
Hello everyone and thanks in advance for your time.
I will try to explain as short as posible what my problem here is and what I've tryed:
Problem: Ok, so this started after I flashed my XT1032 and updated to the latest build of CM12, had some errors while flashing and had to flash a stock 4.4.4 rom, later flashed a CM11 rom to afterwards flash the current CM12 rom.
After about an hour of using the phone my battery jumped from 39% to 1% and my phone switched off , after this happened I could not turn my phone on and It did charge ither so I proceded to check around the web for a solution and the only one I found that actually worked was holding the Power key (not for 2 minutes, but for over 5 minutes) after this the phone turned on and showed 1% battery so I just left it there charging for about 2 hours, but when I came back to get my phone It had only charged 6%, this charging rates and times have changed since this problem started , sometimes charging the phone in 45 minutes, 3 hours, 26 hours and 15 hour which is the charging time im currently seeing. Besides this, I continue to get the same error where sometimes my battery is at 60% and it drops all the way down to 1% or in some situations my phone is somewhere around 20% but if I restart it (not a soft restart, an actual restart) my phone show 100% battery life, I have searched around the web and tried multiple solutions which I will list.
Solutions Tried:
-Flashing my phone once again.
-Waiting for a full charge and then wipeing battery stats.
-Full wipe.
-Cache and Dalvik wipe.
-Charging 100%, drain battery, charge to 100% and then drain battery again.
-Using different chargers (0.5a, 0.7a, 1a)
-Using the original moto g charger.
-Charge using PC.
None of this have worked or shown any type o progress.
I did have a water damage problem with the phone about 2 months ago but the phone was not affected by it in any way.
If anyone can manage to help me with this issue or give me some feedback I would be really greatful.
Update:
Phone seemed to charge properlly with a 2A charger, took about 45 minutes to charge but afterwards it discharged in under 30 minutes and Im back at 17 to fully charge.
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try to reset the bettry turn on the phone then charge it for 8 hours then unplug it turn it off charge it for 1 hour and turn it on and charge it for 1 hour then wipe everything and flash system image again it should solove bettry problems

You try a stock rom flash? That sounds a kernel problem, you should try changing the governor :/

Iggyavendano said:
Hello everyone and thanks in advance for your time.
I will try to explain as short as posible what my problem here is and what I've tryed:
Problem: Ok, so this started after I flashed my XT1032 and updated to the latest build of CM12, had some errors while flashing and had to flash a stock 4.4.4 rom, later flashed a CM11 rom to afterwards flash the current CM12 rom.
After about an hour of using the phone my battery jumped from 39% to 1% and my phone switched off , after this happened I could not turn my phone on and It did charge ither so I proceded to check around the web for a solution and the only one I found that actually worked was holding the Power key (not for 2 minutes, but for over 5 minutes) after this the phone turned on and showed 1% battery so I just left it there charging for about 2 hours, but when I came back to get my phone It had only charged 6%, this charging rates and times have changed since this problem started , sometimes charging the phone in 45 minutes, 3 hours, 26 hours and 15 hour which is the charging time im currently seeing. Besides this, I continue to get the same error where sometimes my battery is at 60% and it drops all the way down to 1% or in some situations my phone is somewhere around 20% but if I restart it (not a soft restart, an actual restart) my phone show 100% battery life, I have searched around the web and tried multiple solutions which I will list.
Solutions Tried:
-Flashing my phone once again.
-Waiting for a full charge and then wipeing battery stats.
-Full wipe.
-Cache and Dalvik wipe.
-Charging 100%, drain battery, charge to 100% and then drain battery again.
-Using different chargers (0.5a, 0.7a, 1a)
-Using the original moto g charger.
-Charge using PC.
None of this have worked or shown any type o progress.
I did have a water damage problem with the phone about 2 months ago but the phone was not affected by it in any way.
If anyone can manage to help me with this issue or give me some feedback I would be really greatful.
Update:
Phone seemed to charge properlly with a 2A charger, took about 45 minutes to charge but afterwards it discharged in under 30 minutes and Im back at 17 to fully charge.
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Well, it's really interesting to see that you made, almost, the EXACTLY same mistakes I did. I tried to flash cm12 wrongly, as well, had to go back to stock kit kat, and flashed cm11 afterwards. I'm experiencing some battery issues too, yet not so severe. My cellphone is getting really warmed up (like 39 - 42°C) and my battery seems to be draining a lot (battery lasts half of what it used to last under medium usage, mostly Facebook and WhatsApp).
I would be really interested in some sort of solution too, if you reached it.

esd316 said:
You try a stock rom flash? That sounds a kernel problem, you should try changing the governor :/
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I will try this solution with a 4.4.4 Stock rom right away and tell you how that goes...
I do have a question, im kind of new to this, what exactly is the governor?
Stormeagle said:
Well, it's really interesting to see that you made, almost, the EXACTLY same mistakes I did. I tried to flash cm12 wrongly, as well, had to go back to stock kit kat, and flashed cm11 afterwards. I'm experiencing some battery issues too, yet not so severe. My cellphone is getting really warmed up (like 39 - 42°C) and my battery seems to be draining a lot (battery lasts half of what it used to last under medium usage, mostly Facebook and WhatsApp).
I would be really interested in some sort of solution too, if you reached it.
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My problem did start a bit like yours, my phone warmed up alot when charging and then the more servere problems started.
As of now I am going to try to flash stock rom as it was recommended and I will update you on how that went.

Iggyavendano said:
I will try this solution with a 4.4.4 Stock rom right away and tell you how that goes...
I do have a question, im kind of new to this, what exactly is the governor?
My problem did start a bit like yours, my phone warmed up alot when charging and then the more servere problems started.
As of now I am going to try to flash stock rom as it was recommended and I will update you on how that went.
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It didn't improve much for me. I flashed stock ROM (Brazilian retail xt1033 rom) and now I'm running lollipop (5.0.3). I hope it solves your problem once and for all!
Looking forward to seeing your results.

Stormeagle said:
It didn't improve much for me. I flashed stock ROM (Brazilian retail xt1033 rom) and now I'm running lollipop (5.0.3). I hope it solves your problem once and for all!
Looking forward to seeing your results.
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Ok so I went ahead and flashed a stock 4.4.4 rom using Fastboot, but the problem seems to persist, I did access the test menu
Code:
*#*#4636#*#*
And the battery info is the following:
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"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
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How ever I did not find any default battery stats so im not sure if this is what it should be like.

I wonder if there is any flashable zip we could use to remake the battery scripts. But this kind of thing is way out of my league when it comes to Android. Recently, I noticed that what is really wasting my battery are the "android system" apps. Dunno if there is anything we could do about it though.

Can I ask for a favor? Is there any way you could check your battery info by going into the test menu and then getting a screenshot of it so I can compair them to mine?

Iggyavendano said:
Can I ask for a favor? Is there any way you could check your battery info by going into the test menu and then getting a screenshot of it so I can compair them to mine?
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Sure, where is this test menu? Developer options?

Stormeagle said:
Sure, where is this test menu? Developer options?
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Thanks, you have to go to your dialer and input the following:
Code:
*#*#4636#*#*
In that menu the should be a "Battery Information" option, if you could get a screenshot of that I would be really grateful

Cool stuff haha!! It is in Portuguese but I can translate to you:
Battery status: not charging
Power: disconnected
Battery lvl: 100
Battery scale: 100
Battery integrity : good
Voltage : 4250mV
Temp: 29.5 (don't know how it dropped)
Couldn't upload pictures, I'm still newbie here in xda

Stormeagle said:
Cool stuff haha!! It is in Portuguese but I can translate to you:
Battery status: not charging
Power: disconnected
Battery lvl: 100
Battery scale: 100
Battery integrity : good
Voltage : 4250mV
Temp: 29.5 (don't know how it dropped)
Couldn't upload pictures, I'm still newbie here in xda
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Ok so the main difference seem to be my voltage, mine shows up as 3701mV and maybe that has something to do with my charging problems, and also my temperature dropped to 29.7 after the stock flash and that is a big leap since with cm12 it was at 34.2 ussually.

Iggyavendano said:
Ok so the main difference seem to be my voltage, mine shows up as 3701mV and maybe that has something to do with my charging problems, and also my temperature dropped to 29.7 after the stock flash and that is a big leap since with cm12 it was at 34.2 ussually.
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After re flashing stock, I flashed ehndroix V, and it kind of solved the overheating problem. I don't know if it is a solution though.

Stormeagle said:
After re flashing stock, I flashed ehndroix V, and it kind of solved the overheating problem. I don't know if it is a solution though.
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At this point im willing to try ant solution that my may help (If it dosen't end up permabricking my device...) So is there any way you could send me a link to this rom?

There is a thread for the rom. It is in "moto G android development". I can't send you a link yet. Need to wait 10 posts until they allow me. Anyway, it's not hard to find, and you can always look Ehndroix V on Google.
Search for the rom developed to our device: "falcon"
Iggyavendano said:
At this point im willing to try ant solution that my may help (If it dosen't end up permabricking my device...) So is there any way you could send me a link to this rom?
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Stormeagle said:
There is a thread for the rom. It is in "moto G android development". I can't send you a link yet. Need to wait 10 posts until they allow me. Anyway, it's not hard to find, and you can always look Ehndroix V on Google.
Search for the rom developed to our device: "falcon"
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Ok thanks, I will check it out and update you if anything works.

Update
Ok so using the stock rom and a 1500am charger my battery seems to be charging a bit quicker, as for now it takes about 7 hours to completely charge, but I can get that done during the night so it is not such a big problem now, I am still looking for a way to completely fix this issue.