Morning all , the past 3 days I have been noticing that my Excalibur just shuts down and won't restart unless I plug it into a power source and power on.
Has this happened to anyone else?
torontotytn said:
Morning all , the past 3 days I have been noticing that my Excalibur just shuts down and won't restart unless I plug it into a power source and power on.
Has this happened to anyone else?
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Sounds like you need a new battery
Thanks man - any specific one you can reccomend? Reason I am asking is cause I have seen people post different battery makes, models etc..
URL Links would be appreciated.
If that's all i have to do - it's an easy fix for a 200.00 phone!
Thank you.
torontotytn said:
Thanks man - any specific one you can reccomend? Reason I am asking is cause I have seen people post different battery makes, models etc..
URL Links would be appreciated.
If that's all i have to do - it's an easy fix for a 200.00 phone!
Thank you.
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Take a look on ebay i use a 1150mAh but go for the 2200mAh and you'll be impressed, if you do a search for battery on here you will see what people recomend.
If you are already on a spare phone, try giving your excalibur a full charge, and turn it off. Allow the battery to drain out completely. And if possible repeat this once or twice more. Complete power drain will improve the average life span, and can be done atleast every 3 months on all normal devices, so as to increase the lifespan
ccpraveen said:
If you are already on a spare phone, try giving your excalibur a full charge, and turn it off. Allow the battery to drain out completely. And if possible repeat this once or twice more. Complete power drain will improve the average life span, and can be done atleast every 3 months on all normal devices, so as to increase the lifespan
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Nice, that is good to know... Never really knew that... Plus also I wanted to ask... is it bad to charge your phone everyday when it is like at 50% of battery life...
Nice question.
Think about a tank. You fill it with wet cement. And u take the wet cement for use slowly away. Almost as soon as the tank is 20-30 percent empty, the cement is filled gently again, so as not to shakeup the cement at the bottom. After a while the cement at the bottom hardens, and u cant get it out for use. And same happens with the total amount of cement u could pour in. Earlier if u needed 25 pots to fill it up, now it gets filled with 10 pots or so.
Now think about the battery with multiple cells arranged inside. You fill it up. Then u use up the top 3-4 rows of small cells, and immediately fill those cells right back. This keeps on happening. What happens is that, the cells at the lower rows are never emptied, and the charge remains static there forever, and after a while the cells just freeze up. Meaning, it is not possible anymore to fill them up, or to use up the containing charge. So when u start filling up, the battery says charged fully pretty soon, cos there are less cells to fill up, and good enough, the charge falls dead soon too.
The above analogy was true on the days on Nickel Cadmium batteries. Now a days with Lithium polymer batteries, what they say is the charge is not stationary at one particular site and keeps on revolving all inside, so there is no question of dead cells arising. Well theoretically yes, but practically what the geeks suggest is to charge the battery only after completely draining it. Well, not really feasible with our busy lifestyles, as we cannot start a day taking the 30 percent battery with us.
This is what I have been doing, Charge it up as much as I need it during the weekdays. During weekends, when I am near a powersource, I keep it until it drains as much as empty. And once every 2-3 months, I try to make it empty fullest.
So I guess, it is more of a personal choice of ease also. Though the current dictum is that, charging the batteries at whatever level is ok, experience has shown many users to allow complete drain occasionally
thanks CC.. i will try that..give it a full die out and charge it up again.
If that doesn't work i'll get a new battery.
Appreciate it!
since you seem knowledgeable on batteries... i also wanted to ask how long do the batteries typically remain "usable" to a decent amount...
Aah not at all knowledgable. All I know is my own personal experiences plus data from a million sites that I read.
The typical duration and lifespan of a battery depends mainly on the capacity first of all, the more milliamps u have, the long lasting a battery is. Also the average life depends a lot of the number of charge cycles. Means, if u r a light user, u wnt have to charge it every now and then, the batt will slowly discharge, and then u charge it once or twice in a week.
For heavy users,at times myself included, I put it on charer more than once in a day. There the total number of chare cycles that the battery is alloted gets used up early, and the battery dies early.
A third factor is the amount of load we give to the OS. Not just playing heavy games or apps, but making calls in low reception areas as well as placing our hands over the antenna portion of the celphone while making calls, increase the load, and cause the battery to drain faster
ccpraveen said:
Aah not at all knowledgable. All I know is my own personal experiences plus data from a million sites that I read.
The typical duration and lifespan of a battery depends mainly on the capacity first of all, the more milliamps u have, the long lasting a battery is. Also the average life depends a lot of the number of charge cycles. Means, if u r a light user, u wnt have to charge it every now and then, the batt will slowly discharge, and then u charge it once or twice in a week.
For heavy users,at times myself included, I put it on charer more than once in a day. There the total number of chare cycles that the battery is alloted gets used up early, and the battery dies early.
A third factor is the amount of load we give to the OS. Not just playing heavy games or apps, but making calls in low reception areas as well as placing our hands over the antenna portion of the celphone while making calls, increase the load, and cause the battery to drain faster
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Thanks for that information man...
i have the same problem with my phone just shutting off after about an hour on, only turning back on when plugged into a power source.
i've got a 2200ma battery on the way and i can't effing wait for it to get here.... i really hope it solves the problem cuz i already reinstalled the kavana rom thinking it was a software bug. reinstalling gave it a breath of fresh air nonetheless, while its on. lol
renegadedj said:
i have the same problem with my phone just shutting off after about an hour on, only turning back on when plugged into a power source.
i've got a 2200ma battery on the way and i can't effing wait for it to get here.... i really hope it solves the problem cuz i already reinstalled the kavana rom thinking it was a software bug. reinstalling gave it a breath of fresh air nonetheless, while its on. lol
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Yah you will love your new battery for sure...
Same thing is (has been) happening to me. Thanks for the info as I was getting quite annoyed.
renegadedj said:
i have the same problem with my phone just shutting off after about an hour on, only turning back on when plugged into a power source.
i've got a 2200ma battery on the way and i can't effing wait for it to get here.... i really hope it solves the problem cuz i already reinstalled the kavana rom thinking it was a software bug. reinstalling gave it a breath of fresh air nonetheless, while its on. lol
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Hey man - please reply on this post when you get the battery replacement to let us know if that helped solve the issue. If not i'll have to jump in the market for a new smartphone.
Theres nothing worse than being on a business call and you loose the call - and your phone usability with no power source around.
Please keep us posted.
torontotytn said:
Hey man - please reply on this post when you get the battery replacement to let us know if that helped solve the issue. If not i'll have to jump in the market for a new smartphone.
Theres nothing worse than being on a business call and you loose the call - and your phone usability with no power source around.
Please keep us posted.
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yea i can deal with a call being dropped. but when the whole phone shuts off and when it wakes up ive got a message or a voicemail. thats the worst.
i have an old ericsson phone. maybe i'll throw that against the wall to take out my frustrations >=o lmao
just got 2200 battery in the mail. phones turned off and im charging the battery now.
now i need to find taht post wehre jdoggrz had a lengthy conversation about batteries and usages and drainages and whatnot....hmmmm... where is it...
just got 200 battery please advise
renegadedj said:
just got 2200 battery in the mail. phones turned off and im charging the battery now.
now i need to find taht post wehre jdoggrz had a lengthy conversation about batteries and usages and drainages and whatnot....hmmmm... where is it...
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lol it was in this thread! ahahah
so please advise or tell me if im wrong. the 2200ma came with a 3/4 charge on it. i should use it until dead. then recharge. then tell dead, then recharge, and finally do taht a third time, before i even charge it while it still has a charge right?
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lol it was in this thread! ahahah
so please advise or tell me if im wrong. the 2200ma came with a 3/4 charge on it. i should use it until dead. then recharge. then tell dead, then recharge, and finally do taht a third time, before i even charge it while it still has a charge right?
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Yah you should do that... let it die 3 times and charge it fully, also do this about once every 2 weeks I would recommend okay... or whenever you can...
jdoggraz said:
Yah you should do that... let it die 3 times and charge it fully, also do this about once every 2 weeks I would recommend okay... or whenever you can...
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thank you kindly for all the help
i dont know why it happens , but when my dash is fully charged and i turn on wifi just after two minutes of browsing the phone turns off and the battery is DEAD . If i dont use wifi the battery gives me time of atleast one whole day with normal sms/calls. What can be the issue?
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i dont know why it happens , but when my dash is fully charged and i turn on wifi just after two minutes of browsing the phone turns off and the battery is DEAD . If i dont use wifi the battery gives me time of atleast one whole day with normal sms/calls. What can be the issue?
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Please respect the rules "no double posts" http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3862230&postcount=271
orb3000 answered you and same goes.
Flash a different ROM but to be honest sounds like battery issue.
You may have a bad battery. Your WiFi setting may be set for best proformance. Your battery meter read-out may be wrong. Try doing a search; you may find your answer. I know what it like to post a problem and have it looked on but not answered for days. That being said you shouldn't double-post.
Hi all, first post.
My Desire is new to me so I'm playing with it constantly, which is obviously killing the already marginal battery rather quickly. On previous 'regular' phones I've always tried to run the battery as low as possible before doing a full recharge, but this isn't possible at the minute as I find myself running low mid-afternoon, so need a top up to make sure I get home without it going flat.
Will this harm the battery in any way? I know battery tech has come a long way in recent years, but I don't want to kill it prematurely by just putting an extra 20-30% in it now and then.
Thanks in advance,
Andy.
Not good dude, the desire use a li-on battery so a deep discharge is one if the worst things you can do to it. Jump into google and have a read of the wikipedia article on it
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I really am close to killing myself due to sadness and disappointment because of my phone's battery life. lol. I have a Galaxy Note 2(4.1.1 ver) and my battery lasts for 12-16 hours. I use it mostly for Facebook, Google, Viber and YouTube. I have other typical social networking/comm apps (YM,Skype, Instagram,Twitter) but I dont use them often. I have less than 10 games (Temple Run2, Angry Birds, Diamond Dash) but I dont play for more than 15 mins. I have observed that when my phone is NOT in use, it decreases by 7-10% per hour (sometimes 1% per minute on idle) during the day. At night, before I go to sleep, it is a fully charged phone and when I wake up, 25% of the battery's life is gone within 8hrs of not touching it even to check the time. I dont know if its the normal draining rate of the battery, if its a factory defect on the battery or the phone itself, or if it is the app or android system. They say you need to turn off the location or something but I couldn't seem to find it. My phone is just 4 days old, or maybe 5. Im hoping when the phone turns a week old, things will be better. Or should I try to kill myself now? Any possible solutions???
PS. Please try to use "simple" instructions or terms. I really am not good about technology.
I used to have this exact same problem (Everything you said exactly happened to me) Heres what i recommend you to do:
1)First off are you rooted?
2) Get Better battery stats from the playstore or get the XDA Edition (Look it up) This will give you whats draining your battery (Apps)
3)There might me a wake lock thats stopping your phone from sleeping (I used better battery stats to fix this too) I was in school and i left my phone in the car it had 95 % and it drained to 21 % which definitlely sucked alot. Because there was an app that stopped the phone from going to sleep (it basically stayed awake while the screen is off..i hope it makes sense)
Also the battery drain in idle is normal it also happens to me mine drains maybe 2 or 3% in around 5 hours.
Bottom line, get better battery stats. I will be glad to help you out as much as I can. Good luck!
There must be something wrong because if you read around the forum you will find people are reverting back to 4.1.1 because it has the best battery life !
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But my battery was reduced by 25% on an 8hr idle time and you have only 2-3% in 5hrs? thats freaking amazing! you need to teach me how its done!!!!
Please don't post multiple times for a problem. Aside from making it confusing for people who may want to help or follow if they have the same problem, it's extra noise. :/
If you mispost in the wrong forum, just pm a moderator to move it. And suicide, really? Just a tad over dramatic.
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Please don't post multiple times for a problem. Aside from making it confusing for people who may want to help or follow if they have the same problem, it's extra noise. :/
If you mispost in the wrong forum, just pm a moderator to move it. And suicide, really? Just a tad over dramatic.
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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sorry about the posts and the drama. you know how girls are. now what i did is reset my phone and installed betterbattery. hope things will get better.
Elai012488 said:
But my battery was reduced by 25% on an 8hr idle time and you have only 2-3% in 5hrs? thats freaking amazing! you need to teach me how its done!!!!
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Mine only drop 2% within 6 hours in sleeping mode.
Just fyi, im on pheonix rom V5.0.
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Yeah. That's the problem. Its been 3 days in a row that i leave my phone at 100% and I always get a 75% bat when i wake up after 7-8hrs. I have no problem on my battery getting drained WHILE IN USE. But while sleeping? I think that's not normal.
Elai012488 said:
Yeah. That's the problem. Its been 3 days in a row that i leave my phone at 100% and I always get a 75% bat when i wake up after 7-8hrs. I have no problem on my battery getting drained WHILE IN USE. But while sleeping? I think that's not normal.
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Your idle drain is not normal. Something runs in the background whether it is location services or some app. Like others have said install betterbatterystats and see what drains the battery and prevents it from going to deep sleep.
The other night my phone lost 3% in 9 hours sleep. Around 1% each third hour. 3G on and all.