Hi everybody,
I have a Moto G7 Power that fell screen down on the ground at 45 km/h. This was 2 years ago. At the time I just bought a new phone. Yesterday I put a new screen in my Moto G7 Power. The screen is aftermarket but seems of good quality.
I remember being able to go for almost a week on this phone with a single charge. It had a screen on time of 12+ hours, really amazing. Now it burns about 50% of the battery in 2 hours. This is still not bad, considering the phone has been stored in a box for 2 years. My question to you is, will buying a new battery fix this?
Could it be that the aftermarket screen is draining my power? I actuall highly doubt it. Would buying a new battery grant me 12+ screen-on-time once again?
Li's start to degrade as soon as they are assembled. A high charge state and high temperatures will accelerate this process.
Likely it just needs a new battery.
However any impact that can cracked the display could potentially damage the mobo. Replace the battery and see what you got.
Hi blackhawk, thank you for your response. I was about to order a new battery, when suddenly..
I first installed lineage 18.1 (had a very annoying bug) and then 17.1. I put the performance profile to Power save. Then I turned on Extreme power saver. I left the screen on for 8 hours and it went from 86% to 26%. While I would get these screen on times without power saver 3 years ago this is absolutely astonishing after all these years.
Btw, sometimes when I press the screen anywhere in the middle, the notification bar is dragged down automatically to where I touch the screen. I then have to turn off the screen and turn it back on again to fix the issue. I had this problem in all the software versions I tried so I guess this is a problem of the cheap aftermarket screen I bought. Still, very much satisfied with the result.
Anteino said:
Hi blackhawk, thank you for your response. I was about to order a new battery, when suddenly..
I first installed lineage 18.1 (had a very annoying bug) and then 17.1. I put the performance profile to Power save. Then I turned on Extreme power saver. I left the screen on for 8 hours and it went from 86% to 26%. While I would get these screen on times without power saver 3 years ago this is absolutely astonishing after all these years.
Btw, sometimes when I press the screen anywhere in the middle, the notification bar is dragged down automatically to where I touch the screen. I then have to turn off the screen and turn it back on again to fix the issue. I had this problem in all the software versions I tried so I guess this is a problem of the cheap aftermarket screen I bought. Still, very much satisfied with the result.
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You're welcome.
If the battery's capacity has diminished past 80% of its new capacity, replace it.
It's simply not worth the inconvenience and potential trouble a degraded battery will cause.
Who knows maybe the hard reset of replacing the battery will solve the notification bar issue
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Thought I would create this to see if you're happy with the battery life on your Vox and post some tips about charging and discharging for better life.
I am generally dis-satisfied with battery life on the Vox however I keep a fully charged battery in my Jeep, one in my wallet and one in my Vox to always stay connected. I switch to my 2250mAh when I know I'm doing to be using WiFi a lot.
Anyways, here is what I have found;
If you reboot your phone while charging, it will jump to a higher charged state and not properly store the charge. To combat this, I have placed a strip of electrical tape over the 2nd connector to the left on the battery which stops the battery from reporting the proper charge level. I run it down and place it on my external charger. Charges last a lot longer after I do this.
Any tips for how you use your Vox to maximize battery life?
I am happy, because I usually get through one day without any problems and then I am plugging it in over night anyway! I'd love a battery with higher capacity, but I hate those extended covers!
I'm happy with the battery life.
I find it lasts longer if I use the phone until the battery is pretty much dead and then charged until full again.
I usually get 3-4 days out of it that way.
Digi-UK said:
I'm happy with the battery life.
I find it lasts longer if I use the phone until the battery is pretty much dead and then charged until full again.
I usually get 3-4 days out of it that way.
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I am not happy at all. 3-4 days ? I bought vox few days back and I get 2 days max, with most of time on standby.
Okay so I received my 2250mAh battery cover, finally. However when using the battery, my device shuts off randomly, this only happens with the extended battery. It also seems the contact sheets are deeper and the pins have a hard time reaching them. If I slide the Vox shut hard, it will also reboot.
Any idea's?
The battery life is fine as long as you don't OC it. I manage to get 3 days with normal use.
With the CPU up to 240Mhz, it barely lasts a day. So i rather use the original 6.0 rom without OC and its still fast. WM6.1 is to slow without OC'ing for me.
So after 6 months of use i finaly found my settings wich i like. And makes the battery life OK for me
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Okay so I received my 2250mAh battery cover, finally. However when using the battery, my device shuts off randomly, this only happens with the extended battery. It also seems the contact sheets are deeper and the pins have a hard time reaching them. If I slide the Vox shut hard, it will also reboot.
Any idea's?
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I got this too when I just received the battery, but after something like 2 weeks these problems disappeared
I'm happy with battery life...
I get up to 2 days with heavy voice, email, and text -- some bluetooth, very little WiFi or Internet. Personally, I've never had a problem with a phone as long as I get a full day and can charge at night. Even if I got 6 days on a battery, I don't want to have to remember to plug my phone in at some point during the day when the battery is about to go. Much easier to plug in every night.
Battery life is exceptional!
I was having problems with my original battery; the phone would simply power down even though it showed that it was charged; and did not have long battery life.
I bought a new battery now I get 3 even 4 days of use with some Bluetooth and WiFi use (not much though). The new battery also seems to have solved my power down problem; had it for 4 weeks, not one power down. I am using the LeFab VoxRomWM6.1XIP20202_v1.0. Quite fast on it's own; I do not over clock.
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.
Once I got to the car to charge it and head home, the phone went into the display where the battery icon shows up and the phone is off, but flashed a yellow warning triangle with a red thermometer next to it on the right side of the battery. Wish I had a camera on me to take a picture, but I immediately pulled the battery door off and placed it on an A/C vent on the car, and the phone died again since it wasn't connected to the charger anymore.
When I finally got the phone home and charging, I went to the battery status screen to see what was draining the battery, and even though it was showing what was going on since the power cycle, it showed the Display was accountable for 94% - still not convinced, I went to my PhoneWeaver settings to see if the Work profile had Wifi or GPS on the whole day, and it didn't have anything out of the ordinary. Only thing I can come up with is that when the emails and texts came in and I didn't check them, my phone unlocked in my pocket and left the screen on the whole day.
Has anyone else seen the overheating / temp warning screen on the battery status level display when the phone is off? What caused it in your situation? I have a hard time believing that if I wear heavy khaki shorts as I've been doing since I got the phone on the 19th, the phone won't unlock and in turn won't overheat, but when I wear dress pants on my first day of work at a new job, the phone unlocks, runs the display all day, and my lightweight slacks make the phone overheat????
sorry for the long narrative, I just wanted to give all the details of what happened in case anyone has any advice or similar experiences.... thanks in advance!
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
I don't get it. This morning on my way to school, I'm using my Nexus, sending a couple of texts and listening to music, yeah. So then when I get to class I power my Nexus S 4G off, I'm talking about holding power and pressing power off, off.
I turned it off next hour and my battery literally drained itself from a good 95% charge this morning to a 63%. The hell happened here? The phone wasn't even on!
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I've seen this a couple of times, vampire drain so long as the battery is attached (phone on/off irrelevant). Never got down to the root of the problem, i believe everyone who has had it ended up calling up samsung to get this sorted as it would be a hardware issue no doubt.
However, do test it again, as follows.
Control Test:
-Take battery out of phone, noting charge
-Sleep
-Put battery back into phone, noting charge
Vampire Test:
-Turn phone off, noting charge
-Take out battery, wait 2 minutes, replace battery
-Leave phone off and sleep (for the same amount of time preferably )
-Put battery back into phone, noting charge
No touching the charger 1 hour prior and before turning on. If there is a noticeable difference between the two tests, call samsung ASAP. Hopefully you're still under warranty.
Definitely a hardware fault
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I've seen this a couple of times, vampire drain so long as the battery is attached (phone on/off irrelevant). Never got down to the root of the problem, i believe everyone who has had it ended up calling up samsung to get this sorted as it would be a hardware issue no doubt
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I have exactly the same problem and proved it to be hardware thanks to your vampire test. (This was only after scrubbing through new apps I had installed to see if they were the cause, scrutinizing battery stats, installing a couple of different ROMs, and complete factory resets and everything - nothing solved it.)
My phone was working fine, then one day, a few weeks ago now, I noticed a sudden battery drain and instead of a day's worth of moderate use, it wouldn't last 5 hrs. Finally did the vampire test after seeing this post and discovered that with the phone completely powered off the battery would drain to nothing in < 6hrs. I verified this behavior with two batteries. The phone gets quite toasty as well, so it's got to be some sort of hardware short circuit causing a constant load on the battery.
Samsung said "send it in for repair" - I haven't done that yet, need to find out what that might cost compared to a new phone. (I'm using a company supplied phone meanwhile.)
Too bad, because I loved my Nexus S - perfect size and shape compared to all the new mini tablet phones out there.
My phone is discharging even when is turned off!
Besides it have high battery drain compared to my BravoC, which in stand by last for days.
This Inspire 4G last max 15 hours, changed the radio, and flashed it to reach that, before it lasted ~9 hours max. I'm talking in stand by, not even using it nor data/wifi/gps turned on. I have checked the processor use and it was in deepsleep most of the time.
Yesterday I fully charged it and inmediately turned it off. Today I tried to turn it on but is dead, completely drained. The battery is new and it does have the sufficient capacity, i mean is not a battery failure (checked it with a hobby charger).
I bought the phone on ebay, it has the volume up button dead, so I dissasembly it to if it can be fixed easily and found out that the phone was previously open. Also the screen seems to be a replacemente (a crappy one) since the light bleed in the dark state is high, alsio the light bleed at high angles. This would explain the high drain using it, but not the drain when is turned off.
Anyone have any idea of what it may be? maybe something not connected properly when it was repaired before or a short circuit anywhere?? or is a deeper failure and there's nothing that can be done?
I'm saving for a One X in the meanwhile but i'd like to fox this in the meanwhile since i won't be buying it anytime soon
Recently changed my battery for no real reason but the fact that I had another fully charged and couldn't be bothered plugging phone in.
So off for the rest of the day I went, noticed instantly that battery was lasting longer. At 60 percent I had exactly 2 hours screen on and by the end I had gotten well over 4 hours. My old battery used to get that but after update to 4.3 I was getting less (approximately 3 hours). Getting less battery time after the update was normal to me as not many people know that from 4.2.2 to 4.3 samsung removed the brightness reduction profile used in specific apps like chrome/browser to conserve battery (80% of full brightness setting). This was done to get battery life points at release date.
On top of that I noticed the phone was cooler and more faster, this however was not major just a more stable sense of feel.
Now the point of this post is to find out why, now I know there are issues with batches of battery's but unsure of its implication.
Another possible theory is faulty battery causing higher heat output and power loss which could also have at times caused throttling of phones performance to prevent damage (which we all know it does, quick example is using phone heavily while charging)
What you people think
Battery Very HOT!
I am pissed at Samsung. My phone nearly burned a hole in my pocket and lost its juice inless then 30 minutes when it approached 30% battery. I went to the battey tab and took a screenshot of its discharging curve! No surprise! The battery was hot and lost nearly all of its power in less than 15 minutes. I have yet to take it to Samsung to get a new battery before it catches fire!
Any recommendation on how to prevent that from happenening?
Michael Ceitlin
SG4-I9505 4.3
MCEITLIN said:
I am pissed at Samsung. My phone nearly burned a hole in my pocket and lost its juice inless then 30 minutes when it approached 30% battery. I went to the battey tab and took a screenshot of its discharging curve! No surprise! The battery was hot and lost nearly all of its power in less than 15 minutes. I have yet to take it to Samsung to get a new battery before it catches fire!
Any recommendation on how to prevent that from happenening?
Michael Ceitlin
SG4-I9505 4.3
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Buy a other battery, you can get one cheap on ebay (Don't buy one that is really cheap, they are mostly ****ed up) :highfive:
MCEITLIN said:
I am pissed at Samsung. My phone nearly burned a hole in my pocket and lost its juice inless then 30 minutes when it approached 30% battery. I went to the battey tab and took a screenshot of its discharging curve! No surprise! The battery was hot and lost nearly all of its power in less than 15 minutes. I have yet to take it to Samsung to get a new battery before it catches fire!
Any recommendation on how to prevent that from happenening?
Michael Ceitlin
SG4-I9505 4.3
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That isn't the battery's fault; there is something on the phone that is using up 100% CPU (explaining the heat and rapid battery drain).
yuuuuuuuu said:
That isn't the battery's fault; there is something on the phone that is using up 100% CPU (explaining the heat and rapid battery drain).
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Agreed. Although, the battery could be the start. My phone gets extremely hot. I check the CPU usage and it's being occupied no matter how many times I clear the RAM.
If I'd be you, I would start from the battery callback... I would look if my battery is not swollen, if its serial is starting with BD...
but, it is me. I have a strange behaviour to start from looking if similar problem occurred for someone here in the past...