Running cm 7 for a few days now. Like it more than I thought I would.
One issue though, more of an annoyance I guess, when charging,
the green led comes on for a full charge, but the battery is not fully
charged yet. Is there a fix for this, or is it something I need to learn to live with?
I think you'll have to deal with it. CM7 runs the same way for me. Once unplugged (green led) it shows 90%. I've tried clearing batt stats many times to no avail.
I've heard this is a gingerbread bug and not just specific to cm, for a fix; if you can call it a fix, you can use a kernel with fastcharge enabled. Usually when I charge my phone using chads latest kernel it'll usually only take a half hour to charge completely to 100% so I never really notice this bug tbh.
Noticed it too, just the way it is in GB.
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Great article, I've read it before and it makes total sense. However, if I watch my phone when it's charging, when the green light comes on, it is not fully charged. It comes on earlier than when it is actually charged, which is a different thing all together. Mostly just annoying as stated in my op and was just trying to find out if it was a common issue.
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However, if I watch my phone when it's charging, when the green light comes on, it is not fully charged. It comes on earlier than when it is actually charged, which is a different thing all together.
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I haven't experienced this before. If you leave it plugged in while the green light is on does it continue to charge?
Also have you ever cleared battery stats?
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Jacksonroh said:
I haven't experienced this before. If you leave it plugged in while the green light is on does it continue to charge?
Also have you ever cleared battery stats?
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When the green light comes on, it's at 85-90% charge if I look at it. I leave it charging after that and it continues to charge as normal, except the green light is on. Everything functions properly with the exception of the green light coming on too soon. I have cleared batt stats a couple of times and it makes no difference. Mostly just annoying.
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When the green light comes on, it's at 85-90% charge if I look at it. I leave it charging after that and it continues to charge as normal, except the green light is on. Everything functions properly with the exception of the green light coming on too soon. I have cleared batt stats a couple of times and it makes no difference. Mostly just annoying.
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Same thing for me too, turns green at like 90%. Didn't know it was a gingerbread thing.
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I am getting this for my son for christmas and was just wondering how long I should charge it for the first time? I believe that you are supposed to run the battery down to 0 then charge fully, but for how long? I know that we have plenty going on on christmas day and I dont want his phone dying on him and him not being able to use it because it has to charge for 9 hours.
when the light turns green it's fully charged.
if you want to do a full charge then yeah.. wait for it to say 'low battery' or die completely, then charge it till it turns green.
easy way of killing the battery fast is leaving LTE on & the screen on while letting it play a video or a game.
The run down to 0 thing is not true with lithium ions. It comes about 60% charged. I say leave it alone until Christmas eve, put it on the charger over night, and you will be good.
OK, how is battery on the device?
Do NOT let the phone die to 0%. It's best to charge it as soon and as often as possible. Letting it die completely hurts more than it helps, although it is sometimes useful to do when you want to calibrate the it (once a month max).
Mine came at 40% and I just started using it right away. They say to let it charge fully and sit for a few extra hours, but I never do.
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when the light turns green it's fully charged.
if you want to do a full charge then yeah.. wait for it to say 'low battery' or die completely, then charge it till it turns green.
easy way of killing the battery fast is leaving LTE on & the screen on while letting it play a video or a game.
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What green light are you talking about? I haven't seen any green light when charging mines.
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The run down to 0 thing is not true with lithium ions. It comes about 60% charged. I say leave it alone until Christmas eve, put it on the charger over night, and you will be good.
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Actually, the discharging/charging thing when the battery's new is a good practice, even for Lithium-Ions. Not for the battery's sake, but so that the phone battery monitoring is as accurate as possible. Helps to give better figures.
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Actually, the discharging/charging thing when the battery's new is a good practice, even for Lithium-Ions. Not for the battery's sake, but so that the phone battery monitoring is as accurate as possible. Helps to give better figures.
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you can always just wipe battery stats in clockwork recovery to recalibrate.
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What green light are you talking about? I haven't seen any green light when charging mines.
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You know, that green light... which we don't have!
Yeah no indicator or what so ever. Just text on lock screen says charged means its full. If you charge it while phone is off lightly tap power button it will show big battery icon on the middle of the screen
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How long does it take to get a full charge?
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How long does it take to get a full charge?
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From 0 to full charge it takes a couple of hours for my phone.
Two hours here on AC.
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What green light are you talking about? I haven't seen any green light when charging mines.
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If you install Light Flow you should be able to set it up so the light lets you know when its charged....though personally i have light flow turn off the notification light when its charging...i dont like extra lights flashing when im sleeping
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And speaking of battery, does anyone know good calibrating procedures? Would it be the same as i would do for my Charge?
I'm on FB17 and my phone is getting really hot while charging is stuck at 99%. It's been like this for a couple hours. anyone know what's up?
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Is something running? When you're plugged in, you're still running off the battery. Mine only goes 100% if it's in standby while plugged in.
Nothings running at all
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Turn off the phone and let it charge.
If that doesn't work, pull the battery and let it sit for 2 minutes
Yeah, I'm having the same issue. Also read a few others were as well. I'm going to try and recalibratey battery. Ill keep you posted.
+1 to Nibrs' comment. I would shutdown the phone completely, let it take a full charge WITHOUT the android OS running, unplug the charger, remove the battery for a few minutes then boot the phone back up. After it's been up and running and settled in, plug the charger back in once again. It could take 30-45 minutes to finish this last trickle charge.
I've had this issue since cm9 alpha 1. Don't really care.
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I've had this issue since cm9 alpha 1. Don't really care.
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Thanks for your non-contribution to this thread.
Alright, are calibrating didn't work ( might of helped battery life tho) it charges to 100% only when my phone is off. As soon as I turn it on, its at 99%. I miss my blue led.
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Mine will be stuck on 99% for a long time also but mine will eventually say 100%. It has to do with how the battery is charged. Once it gets to a certain point it only does a slow trickle charge to maintain the battery level. So for the 99% part it's supposed to do that but you shouldn't have those heat issues. Did you flash a new ROM recently by chance?
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Mine will be stuck on 99% for a long time also but mine will eventually say 100%. It has to do with how the battery is charged. Once it gets to a certain point it only does a slow trickle charge to maintain the battery level. So for the 99% part it's supposed to do that but you shouldn't have those heat issues. Did you flash a new ROM recently by chance?
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Since GB my phone has done this same thing. I just figured its an ICS thing...really if u think about it, ur phone is at 100% while charged...u unplug it and it is using battery so you're at 99.999 percent off the bat...seems like the phone just doesn't round less than whole numbers.
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Since GB my phone has done this same thing. I just figured its an ICS thing...really if u think about it, ur phone is at 100% while charged...u unplug it and it is using battery so you're at 99.999 percent off the bat...seems like the phone just doesn't round less than whole numbers.
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You're not actually fully charged when you unplug it. It would be in the 90% area because it doesn't constantly charge the battery. It stops once it gets to a certain point and then will start charging again once the battery hits a certain minimum level.
Well, took almost 12hrs of charging but finally got to a 100%. Btw. I'm on blu kuban rom. Not sure if its a ics bug or a battery issue. Never had this happen in stock.
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I think it is supposed to float between 95% - 100% to avoid damaging the battery.
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Don't know if this a factor but had this happen today on ff09. Battery jumped from 54% to 10% on one reboot (phone was hot)... Rebooted again and back up to 26%.
Got home, plugged in on LG cord to 99%. Changed to Sammy charger, finished 2 hrs later.
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+1 to Nibrs' comment. I would shutdown the phone completely, let it take a full charge WITHOUT the android OS running, unplug the charger, remove the battery for a few minutes then boot the phone back up. After it's been up and running and settled in, plug the charger back in once again. It could take 30-45 minutes to finish this last trickle charge.
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That's awesome info, I'll have to try that. Thanks!
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How many cycles have you gone since flashing? I have been on blu kuban for over a month now. I update the instant I see an update. Most times it takes around 3 full battery cycles before I see decent life. This last update seemed to take longer than usual to see normal battery behavior. First I would try draining battery to 5%, run battery calibration script in the updater then fully charge and calibrate again. If it continues I would recommend the standard restore to stock and reinstall.
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So, my battery will charge to 100% and when I unplug it, it stays at 100%. Thing is, with the battery still showing 100%, when I plug it back in, it drops down to 99% and keeps charging. I've switched batteries, pulled batteries, deleted stats, etc. and it still happens. Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks
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Why would you plug it back in anyways if its already at 100%? Does it affect your overall battery life? If not don't worry about it.
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Because when I'm sitting at my desk at work I leave it charging. And yes, my battery life is pretty ****ty lately.
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When the phone is charged at 100% it obviosly stops charging but it still displays full charge, so when you unplug its actually discharged a little since it hit 100%.
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Right, but it drops to 99% when I plug it back in. That shouldn't happen. It has never happened before, even when GB had charging glitches.
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maybe its the wire
It did it to me too, just a bug
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Theory:
When your phone is unplugged it uses the upper register during the battery drain until it meets a point where it changes to the next number. So after you unplug and your phone is draining battery it will still read 100% even though it is really going 99.9...99.8...99.7... until it reaches the defined lower register (any chosen spot not necessarily the next whole number) and then shows 99%.
When you plug your phone back in it uses the lower end and counts up. So even though when you unplug for just a moment and the charge is at 99.999% it reads 99% to let you know it isn't fully charged. It is charging that little bit.
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Theory:
When your phone is unplugged it uses the upper register during the battery drain until it meets a point where it changes to the next number. So after you unplug and your phone is draining battery it will still read 100% even though it is really going 99.9...99.8...99.7... until it reaches the defined lower register (any chosen spot not necessarily the next whole number) and then shows 99%.
When you plug your phone back in it uses the lower end and counts up. So even though when you unplug for just a moment and the charge is at 99.999% it reads 99% to let you know it isn't fully charged. It is charging that little bit.
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Thank you, that's entirely reasonable.
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I am used to having my phone charge to 100% over night, and then when I unplug it it goes immediately to 99% This morning I had the blue LED notification to let me know I had a full charge. But when i took it off it said 60%, my first impression was whoa thats not right.
tbh im only running stock FF13 not even rooted.
Where is that 40% difference coming from?
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I am used to having my phone charge to 100% over night, and then when I unplug it it goes immediately to 99% This morning I had the blue LED notification to let me know I had a full charge. But when i took it off it said 60%, my first impression was whoa thats not right.
tbh im only running stock FF13 not even rooted.
Where is that 40% difference coming from?
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maybe bad battery. is it bulged?
I dont think so, its a extended life battery. I was more looking to see if anybody else had an issue similar.
for the past week i've been having battery issues where the charging LED lights up, but the phone does NOT charge. or the phone says charging, then the light turns blue saying 100% but as soon as i remove the plug, the % drops to whatever the battery truely is at.
even when I go into about phone>battery, the time spent charging does not show that it has been charging. Also better battery stats does not seem to even show any processes being run...as if theres no battery stats to read from. also Gsam battery wont even calculate the average time left
my usb port works fine. i've used all different usb cables/chargers. i've wiped battery stats numerous times. ive done clean installs of ics and even tried going back to gb roms. issue reappears on BOTH oem batteries i have.
That's just one of those pesky ICS bugs that affects some phones and not others. I ran one Epic on the official ICS update for 4days and went back to gb before any bugs occurred, so I guess I was lucky not to have any aftereffects. It may clear with a custom Rom , you need to research the threads.
Good luck.
Pp.
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The green light indicating a fully charged battery goes on for me at about ~90% battery charge. This is super annoying. Is this a known bug or am i doing something wrong? Any way to fix it? I tried calibrating the battery but no luck.
What ROM?
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The green light indicating a fully charged battery goes on for me at about ~90% battery charge. This is super annoying. Is this a known bug or am i doing something wrong? Any way to fix it? I tried calibrating the battery but no luck.
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Green doesn't mean fully charge its by % of charge ie: 90%-98% green
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I think the aosp roms show green at 90%, while stock doesn't do it until 100%