Battery and cold weather - Honor 8 Questions & Answers

Hi All,
How does your battery feel in cold weather? I understand that drain should be faster, but I didn't expect such problems. This is my first autumn-winter with Honor 8. I bought it on Spring. We have 2-5 degrees Celsius above zero now, it isn't so cold. But during this weekends, I went outside with fully charged phone and after 5 minutes, it switched off due to the empty battery. It's extremely fast. I didn't have such problems with my LG or other phones. I don;t know, what will I do in Winter, with -15 outside.
Does anyone have the same issues?
Regards,
Pavlo

Hi, you can try to overheat by playing Radiation City on highest graphics before going outside. It might solve this temporary, but if being serious. There is good chance that your device defected, it can be problem with wire connected to battery or your phone have sealing gap. That's just my guess.

Late answer but yes I had this problem last winter and now again.

Same problem here. Huge battery drain especially during cold periods.

I have the same issue. Phone shuts down at 37% and -3° C. When the phone is inside again, it's working again.

I didin't had that issue last winter but now on latest emui the battery really drain is from 100% to 1% almost instant than it get's cold... Mby downgrading will help that?

I have no problems with mine.

I did downgrade to emui 4.1 and its normal now. So the b389 or what did i had has some issue

oh, this is interesting. I was outside working on my car for several hours, it was about -2C, using my phone as a torch. Now my phone appears to start when plugged in, but with a blank screen. If I live it for an hour or so trying to trigger a hard reset may get the boot screen, though it flickers then disappears. I still hear notification beeps though, so it appears to be working except for the screen.

Androthan said:
I have the same issue. Phone shuts down at 37% and -3° C. When the phone is inside again, it's working again.
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Adding to it. Same here. Switched off when outside was -5° C during phone call. Went inside, connected charger - immediately showed 42%
Is this a reason to submit phone to service center?

Same for me, twice this winter in Scotland.
-6° and the phone has beeped and shows a notification that battery level is 1% and that it's shutting down, which it sits immediately.
Back in the warmth, I turned the phone on again and it showed over 30% battery power remaining.
EMUI 5.0.1

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First day of a new job so I put my phone on a Work profile using PhoneWeaver (paid). Had the phone vibrate a few times telling me I had emails, and then one last time telling me the battery was almost dead, then it died. Had 6 hours of life out of it, not even joking.
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never, i recommend restoring factory settings and using it as is for a day and see if this happens again. It could be something you installed. If you have a similar experience, return your phone and get a replacement.
make sure they replace your battery incase it got fked from the overheating caused by the phone.
well, day two of work and my phone is just now at 20 percent, 14 hours later, lots of texts and emails and everything else

Battery question. Dieing when powered off

Ok I have searched and not found anything like this yet so I am going to ask. I know the phone has battery problems all around for a lot of people. Mine seems to be fine when it is on. It can sit and idle powered on all day locked and stay at full charge. It runs about 10 hours with minimal use and maybe 8 hours with some data use and a few calls and texts. Now I am experiencing a wired problem. When I go to work we cannot have cell phones. I leave my phone in my locker and power it off. After my 12 hour shift is up at work I come back to the phone with a dead battery? What could be causing this? And has anyone else noticed this issue?
defective battery? pull the battery and see if it still does it. If it does, gotta be a defective battery.. if it doesn't do it when pulled, you're not shutting off the phone maybe?
Yesterday I tried leaving the battery out. I took the battery out and let it sit 12 hours and it still had full charge when I put it back in. When I go to work I long press on the power/lock button and choose Power off then I watch it shut down and it just dies before I come back. I wish I could watch it the whole time. Today I left the phone off for around 6 hours and came back and it was fine though. Maybe it gets turned on some how at work. I have no idea. Or when I go to power it on it is just the issue where the phone isn't reading battery % correctly and it just says 0%
Seems like a battery driver issue or a defective battery? definitely call t-mobile and check if it's the battery. I've had some issues as well, but not that bad.
Weird.
So the phone powers off after you turn the screen on and it won't come back on? Try putting the phone in airplane mode.
Also, I'm assuming you are running the stock roms?
Might also want to check into a battery monitor to see if any 1 thing is pulling it down.
I think it might just be the battery driver. Sounds like the phone is in suspend so it doesn't power off properly until the screen is turned on and is revived, updating the battery % status, seeing 0%, and turning off.
CM7 fixed the wonky battery issue a few nights ago. Right now, I think a current CM based rom is the best bet as it has most of the drivers fixed. I'ved used mine pretty heavily today, unplugged at 8am and I just got a 15% battery warning at 11:30pm. It will usually last until I go to bed at midnight but I might want to play with it some more.

Z3 Dual battery levels jumps arround..

Hello everyone,
I've bought an used Z3 dual couple days ago,and after having it for some days now I noticed that the battery jumps around,for example from 88% to 50% then 32% then goes back to 88%..
That usually happens when I'm running heavy apps,like camera which caused a phone overheating as far as I noticed.
Anyways,Yestrday I fully charged the phone and when I plug it from the charger it does down to 50%,it stayed at that level for almost 24hours.Few hours ago the phone suddenly the phone turn off (while the battery was still 50%).But After putting the phone in the charger,the phone keep showing "charging icon" and turning off.It was like this for 30min and it is not charging at all..
Have anyone been in the same situation before ? What could be the problem ? and how would I solve it ?
Waiting your kind replies..
That sounds like the phone battery is literally dying.
Don't think that it is a software problem you could solve on your own.
You could try this though, doesn't hurt if you do the Method 1:
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As of maybe a couple of months, my phone shuts off almost immediately after getting to 20% it turns off and when plugged starts charging from 16% or so. Any idea what may be causing this and how to fix it?
I have the same issue mate. It happened twice for me. Was using Snapchat and the battery drained down to 19% and then it suddenly showed 0% and the phone shut down. And then after I charged it for a bit, it showed around 20%
I have same problem here, guess factory reset might helps.
Same issue on my friend's Honor 8.
Mine turns off at random percentages. Sometimes it happens at 20%, 10% and most recently 67%. I'm wondering if changing the battery would fix the issue
same issue here disappeared for like 2 months and it happened today
This suddenly happened to me today, I was using Snapchat and I took a pic, was writing a caption to send to my friends and all of a sudden it dropped to 0% and shut off, even though it was already at low battery I know It still had enough life for me to be able to send the snap and listen to music. What sucks is that I didn't look at the battery percentage before It turned off but when I turned it back on it was at 13%, even though when I tried turning it on from before it kept telling me 0% and shutting off repeatedly
i noticed that when i plugged in the charger and checked the recents all the apps opened were showing up.....looks like its doing soft reboot but cant complete the reboot......smh!!!
Same problem here
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This phones are rooted or no?
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Rooted stock
I realize that it happens when it's really cold outside. It happened to me a second time today when I was outside in the cold, so I guess the phone turns off to prevent anything from happening internally, because it shut off at around 50% of battery and when I turned it back on it wasn't 0% like it had told me
I'm switching out the battery today I'll let you guys know if it fixes the issue
No root till now fully stock.
Well replacing the battery fixed the issue. I also deleted battery stats once it was charged to 100%
Same issue here. My device goes from 20% to 1% in about 2 seconds. And then when i charge the phone, it shows charging from 19%. It happens all the time.
Hi, had same but my first time died when I was flying drone with it, it was at 17% of bat. I was so nervous that I lose my drone that I forgot to check what was the problem with bat. Now when I was trying to film my daughter skiing after 2min outside of my pocket it turned off although bat. was at 78% and tem. outside was -3*C. Yesterday I've send it on warranty, I let you know what they say (if anything). Mine H8 is stock no root.
Wander is there any app than can check number of cycles of battery, this way I will know for sure if Service replaced battery or only told that it was replaced
erraz said:
Well replacing the battery fixed the issue. I also deleted battery stats once it was charged to 100%
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Did you guys need root to delete the battery stats?
biniek said:
Hi, had same but my first time died when I was flying drone with it, it was at 17% of bat. I was so nervous that I lose my drone that I forgot to check what was the problem with bat. Now when I was trying to film my daughter skiing after 2min outside of my pocket it turned off although bat. was at 78% and tem. outside was -3*C. Yesterday I've send it on warranty, I let you know what they say (if anything). Mine H8 is stock no root.
Wander is there any app than can check number of cycles of battery, this way I will know for sure if Service replaced battery or only told that it was replaced
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Did the service center fix the issue?
Yes, they replaced battery, screen and frame, actually they only left old back panel and MB. Screen was replaced because of dead pixels (but I didn't saw any before). After a year, I think I have same issue with battery again but this time no warranty anymore ;(

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