I have now had this problem twice this week. I have read other posts that sound similar but the issue seems different.
Twice I have shut down my phone at night. With FULL battery. The next morning, I could not turn the phone on. It would vibrate when I hit power button but not come on at all.
Both times I plugged it in and saw that the battery was COMPLETELY drained. I have seen threads where people post about some battery drain overnight, but this was an entire drain, with the phone off.
This is a major issue obviously as both times the next morning I was on the go and had zero battery life.
Any ideas of what this can be? Does it sound like a physical battery issue? Is the phone maybe not actually shutting down and getting caught in some battery draining process?
Help please.
The best way to test the shutdown issue is pulling the battery after it seems to shut down. Try pulling it for a few seconds and replacing it, but leaving the device off. If that produces the same result, try leaving the battery out overnight.
This seems to only be happening if I leave the battery in the phone.
It happened again last night. Complete drain.
Im not sure but I feel like there may have been a buzz as it turned itself off (not sure if its always there need to experiment further). I picked it up and hit buttons to make sure it wasnt just in standby. It wasnt. it was OFF.
Next morning, no battery.
Any ideas? Id love some help as this is becoming a pretty big problem for me.
Have you ruled out a hardware issue already? If not then call the carrier.
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lirong said:
This seems to only be happening if I leave the battery in the phone.
It happened again last night. Complete drain.
Im not sure but I feel like there may have been a buzz as it turned itself off (not sure if its always there need to experiment further). I picked it up and hit buttons to make sure it wasnt just in standby. It wasnt. it was OFF.
Next morning, no battery.
Any ideas? Id love some help as this is becoming a pretty big problem for me.
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This actually happened to me a night before last as well - twas the first night running Smooth Ice 5.1. Are you on that by chance? Not knowledgeable enough to really comment on whether or not that could be it, but it'd be something to eliminate.
I switched to the new leak last night and the battery life has been excellent off charger all day, for what it's worth.
I am on stock everything.
I am still trying to diagnose the problem.
It seems that when I Power Off, occasionally at the end of the power done I will get a Vibrate. When that happens, I think it is draining while switched off.
When the Power Down happens and I dont feel the vibrate, so far I have not experienced the drain.
Does that perhaps give anyone ideas about what might be happening? Some kind of locked in Process or App? Any likely culprits? Any diagnostics that can show, if it does drain, what drained it?
In the past when it drained I plugged it in to charge and checked battery stats, but it showed Display as the largest consumer. Does the About Battery stats reset each time you plug in and start charging?
lirong said:
I am on stock everything.
I am still trying to diagnose the problem.
It seems that when I Power Off, occasionally at the end of the power done I will get a Vibrate. When that happens, I think it is draining while switched off.
When the Power Down happens and I dont feel the vibrate, so far I have not experienced the drain.
Does that perhaps give anyone ideas about what might be happening? Some kind of locked in Process or App? Any likely culprits? Any diagnostics that can show, if it does drain, what drained it?
In the past when it drained I plugged it in to charge and checked battery stats, but it showed Display as the largest consumer. Does the About Battery stats reset each time you plug in and start charging?
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It always vibrates when you power off, at least mine does.
The battery stats reset after a full charge has been achieved.
I have no idea what would be discharging it while off besides a bad battery.
Put the BetterBatteryStats application on there. The stock Battery Use GUI interface that is built into the firmware will not show you details enough, it will just show what application used the cpu for X amount and caused the battery to go down X amount.
Put BetterBatteryStats on there to find out what is causing the phone to get drained so quickly. Seems like its not going in deep sleep mode and there is some partial wakelock that is keeping the phone from going into deep sleep. That app will tell you what service or application is holding the largest wakelocks and amount of time it does it for. This helps to determine the issue. Without this, you are just speculating on the problem with the built in Battery Use stats/graph in the Status screen.
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dixit said:
Put the BetterBatteryStats application on there. The stock Battery Use GUI interface that is built into the firmware will not show you details enough, it will just show what application used the cpu for X amount and caused the battery to go down X amount.
Put BetterBatteryStats on there to find out what is causing the phone to get drained so quickly. Seems like its not going in deep sleep mode and there is some partial wakelock that is keeping the phone from going into deep sleep. That app will tell you what service or application is holding the largest wakelocks and amount of time it does it for. This helps to determine the issue. Without this, you are just speculating on the problem with the built in Battery Use stats/graph in the Status screen.
Dixit
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He is talking about when his phone is powered off.
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He is talking about when his phone is powered off.
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Damn, then disregard my post. Thanks for clarifying it.
Dixit
Something else I noticed...
Over the last few data, sometimes when I power down the phone, it goes through the powering down process usual, but as soon as its done, the phone vibrates and powers right back on...
Anyone experience this or an idea why that would happen?
Just a thought; If I'm charging my phone with a generic charger (500 mA) and shut it off, it will reboot.
If I'm charging with either the factory wall charger or a 12 volt that triggers AC charge it won't.
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The reboot happens when I shut down and am not plugged in to a charger at all....
My galaxy S has been doing this too lately (loses all charge when off overnight). It always buzzes on shutdown.
One thing that mine has is a problem with the usb port, it slowly stopped working and now I can't charge it anymore through the port. I'm wondering if there is a physical short there that is causing the battery to drain. Possibly you have something similar going on, or a short elsewhere in the system.
I've noticed that you cannot shut the phone down when charging from certain chargers too, especially in the car. Very annoying.
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Hey guys,
Im still having this issue and wanted to hear if there is a known fix or solution?
Honestly, the severity of battery drain you're describing sounds lije more of a hardware issue than anything else. I would contact yoir carrier as mentioned above. Beyond that, trying out a custom ics like sky or embryo might be your best bet if you prefer the tw interface. Im on embryo 5.1 right now and am experiencing better battery health and longevity than ever before with the skyrocket. But the issue does sound like a bad battery.
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Same exact issue, but I have the t-mobile version.
Very weird!
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Same exact issue, but I have the t-mobile version.
Very weird!
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This happened to me on one of my i777s.
The phone would even not boot up. It will just vibrate. Turns out the battery was bad. Changed the battery. It was still the same.
Then tried another charger, same thing happened.
So then I changed the whole charging port part in the phone.
Voila! Phone worked like a charm.
So if you have warranty change the phone. If not change the charging port. At least in my case.
I came to a conclusion that even the battery went bad because of the bad charging. Might be a coincidence too.
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This happened to me on one of my i777s.
The phone would even not boot up. It will just vibrate. Turns out the battery was bad. Changed the battery. It was still the same.
Then tried another charger, same thing happened.
So then I changed the whole charging port part in the phone.
Voila! Phone worked like a charm.
So if you have warranty change the phone. If not change the charging port. At least in my case.
I came to a conclusion that even the battery went bad because of the bad charging. Might be a coincidence too.
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I have 3 S2 phones that I bought as defect and played around with. Two I could fix but I could not resolve the battery issue on the third phone like by buying a brandnew USB charger part (and trying the ones from the other 2 phones. It has nothing to do with the ROM or anything software either. I narrowed it down to be an issue on the actual mainboard. The weird thing is that the battery discharges way faster when the phone is turned off than when it's in use.
Hi. I searched for an answer to this weird problem but couldn't seem to find a similar issue. So here it goes.
When my phone is off and I plug it to recharge the battery, after a due amount of time (or even the whole night) the indicator shows a full green battery and states 100%: fine. But ... as soon as I turn the phone on, the percentage indicator in the top right every time shows a figure between 82-84%. So I need to plug the charger back on again (this time while the phone is on) and after a while I get the 100% on the indicator.
This has happened since I bought the device and with both my (new) batteries. Pointless to say, I did try to reset the battery stats a number of times to correct the issue. No joy.
Am I the only one experiencing this? Any clue on how to fix this discrepancy? Granted it's not a big deal, but still a little annoying.
Thanks
Mike
wallace108 said:
Hi. I searched for an answer to this weird problem but couldn't seem to find a similar issue. So here it goes.
When my phone is off and I plug it to recharge the battery, after a due amount of time (or even the whole night) the indicator shows a full green battery and states 100%: fine. But ... as soon as I turn the phone on, the percentage indicator in the top right every time shows a figure between 82-84%. So I need to plug the charger back on again (this time while the phone is on) and after a while I get the 100% on the indicator.
This has happened since I bought the device and with both my (new) batteries. Pointless to say, I did try to reset the battery stats a number of times to correct the issue. No joy.
Am I the only one experiencing this? Any clue on how to fix this discrepancy? Granted it's not a big deal, but still a little annoying.
Thanks
Mike
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What might be happening is that your device uses a lot of power in order to boot up. 16% of battery life seems a bit strange though.
The other thing that might occur is that the threshold for the green light to be lit is at about 84-86% (meaning: if the battery is more than 84% or something charged, show the green light).
What I suggest doing is just leave your phone on all the time and perhaps reboot it only when necessary.
As far as I know, there aren't really any solutions, but maybe you should try contacting support from the manufacturer of your device. Perhaps they know more about the subject.
Thanks exenia121,
It's definitely a weird thing. And i was more curious to know if I was the only one to report this. There must be probably a strange surge on boot up. In fact after the recharge of the phone (while being on) was completed (100%) I turned it off. But when I powered it after a couple of hours I was back at 84%. Hmmm ....
Hi, I am having a weird problem with my HTC Sensation XE, after some time, my phone stops showing correct battery life. For example, first the battery is 100% charged, and in a few minutes it is 25% charged. After some time the phone believes the battery is empty and shuts down itself. After that, I wait a while and reboot and it has like 80% again. This doesn't happen all the time, but when it does it is quite annoying. It isn't ROM related, as I have tried lots of ROMs and flashed stock multiple times, but it didn't solve the problem. I have also formatted the battery properly lots of times. What do you think could be the cause of my problem? I am suspecting it's the battery, but I am also afraid it could be something worse. Thanks in advance for your help
P:S. Oh and I didn't mention, sometimes also fastboot, recovery, and ROM show different battery usage. IDK if this was important but still
superiska123 said:
Hi, I am having a weird problem with my HTC Sensation XE, after some time, my phone stops showing correct battery life. For example, first the battery is 100% charged, and in a few minutes it is 25% charged. After some time the phone believes the battery is empty and shuts down itself. After that, I wait a while and reboot and it has like 80% again. This doesn't happen all the time, but when it does it is quite annoying. It isn't ROM related, as I have tried lots of ROMs and flashed stock multiple times, but it didn't solve the problem. I have also formatted the battery properly lots of times. What do you think could be the cause of my problem? I am suspecting it's the battery, but I am also afraid it could be something worse. Thanks in advance for your help
P:S. Oh and I didn't mention, sometimes also fastboot, recovery, and ROM show different battery usage. IDK if this was important but still
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I had the same problem both on my stock and 1900 mAh Anker batteries and I partially solved it by thickening the battery on the "slim" side with a layer of paper and 2 of adhesive tape :laugh: I said partially because sometimes this issues strikes back...
Try also to remove battery and to re-insert it without charging it when the phone shuts down till phone doesn't boot anymore (it helped me a lot!) and also to fully charge your battery (all night long for example) and then to wipe battery stats via recovery
All of a sudden my phone started to turn off when it read that there was still battery life left on device. But it will not boot up until I plug it into a charger. Once I do, there are times it reads 100% charge, random %, or completely dead. Since the first time there hasn't been a time it has properly drain the battery with a proper shut down. I have done numerous factory resets and complete wipe/fresh ROM flash. Currently I am on CM snapshot M6. If anyone could please me that would be great. It is starting to become pain in my side.
Thanks.
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All of a sudden my phone started to turn off when it read that there was still battery life left on device. But it will not boot up until I plug it into a charger. Once I do, there are times it reads 100% charge, random %, or completely dead. Since the first time there hasn't been a time it has properly drain the battery with a proper shut down. I have done numerous factory resets and complete wipe/fresh ROM flash.
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same here (d802 variant)...
i know it's been 5 years since your issue, but did you found a solution for this? was it a battery, motherboard or something else...
i hope you remember if you solved it
Hi,
I'm running CM11 and within the last couple of days I've noticed my status LED is stuck in the green charging state. I should post a pic of my battery usage graph - it looks pretty stupid. The battery level is going up while it says it's on battery and it thinks it's been charging for the last 8 hours or so while it's been unplugged. Has anyone else seen this? I have one of those huge MPJ brick batteries that comes with a bigger battery cover. Hardware problem? Software problem? Or maybe I just wipe my battery stats and it's fine. I'm kind of hoping I actually unlocked God Mode for my phone and the battery won't ever run out.
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Hi,
I'm running CM11 and within the last couple of days I've noticed my status LED is stuck in the green charging state. I should post a pic of my battery usage graph - it looks pretty stupid. The battery level is going up while it says it's on battery and it thinks it's been charging for the last 8 hours or so while it's been unplugged. Has anyone else seen this? I have one of those huge MPJ brick batteries that comes with a bigger battery cover. Hardware problem? Software problem? Or maybe I just wipe my battery stats and it's fine. I'm kind of hoping I actually unlocked God Mode for my phone and the battery won't ever run out.
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I have seen this on older cm builds. Its definitely a rom thing. Usually a full reboot fixes this...till next time. And if I remember correctly it won't happen everytime. I hope this helps you.
Huh, haven't seen that issue in a while. In my experience, simply plugging it in and removing the plug a couple of times will reset the LED. A full reboot would fix it as well.
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Huh, haven't seen that issue in a while. In my experience, simply plugging it in and removing the plug a couple of times will reset the LED. A full reboot would fix it as well.
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I rebooted last night and that seemed to do the trick.... for now. I think it eventually started happening again the last time I fixed it by rebooting. We'll see.