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Hello,
so I got the bloated battery issue myself, and had to order another battery. I have seen many threads pop up in the last month concerning this issue, on here, androidcentral, and even the sprint forums!
There doesn't seem to be a unified thread, so I would like to try to get one going. Sprint/Samsung probably doesn't know how widespread this issue is becoming. I think its a more serious problem than we think, and isn't relagated to a few random people. Myself and my friend, who both got our phones around the same time, who both run the same build of ICS started exhibiting the following issues:
1. Insane and unpredictable battery life drops. I'm talking 88% while browsing the web, and then instant reboot and phone is down to 10%.
2. Screen flickers as if auto brightness can't make up its mind, instant reboot.
3. LOS, then reboot.
4. Any intensive apps: camera, gps, sometimes even just streaming music, causes the phone to lock up, pressing home does nothing, may even require reboot.
5. Removing battery, and then letting phone sit for 1-2 minutes, then putting it back in an powering up brings battery level back up to stable temporarily.
6. Battery Bloat, and inevitable: permadeath. Can't hold a charge.
This seems to me to be a consistent occurence along with recent builds of ICS.
I would like to get to the bottom of this. I don't plan on keeping this phone much longer (I ordered a Nexus 4, still in order limbo tho), but it could be of help to the community if we know the how's and why's.
Questions:
- Are you experience these symptoms?
- If so, when did they start, give a specific build number?
- Have you experienced battery bloat? (battery seems to be slightly expanding outward, not completely flat)
- Do you keep your phone on the charger overnight? (This may or may not be related, but maybe a recent ICS change disables something that stops the battery from overcharging)
Interesting! My wife had this exact issue on her E4GT unrooted FI27. Eventually, the phone would no longer boot. She took it back to Sprint yesterday. The battery was bad, they tried another battery and the phone still wouldn't boot. She's receiving a new phone today.
She told me when she was at the Sprint store, there was a guy there with an Evo with exactly the same problem. I told her it was just an amazing coincidence and not an Android issue... obviously I was wrong!
I am on FI27 stock rooted with a newer battery than my wife's, the only thing I have noticed is that my charge sometimes drops CONSIDERABLY after I reboot the phone... now this has me worried! Her battery was bloated. We both charge overnight.
Obviously, this is an issue that you can't ignore, because it can fry your phone (as it did my wife's).
Yes!! The insane battery dropped started happening like a month ago. That's all that was happening though. Just random battery drops. I thought it was the ROM at the time. The phone would freeze up, reboot and the battery would be 30%+ lower.
About a week ago I started experiencing the craziness. Phone rebooting, flickering screen, pretty much everything you've stated. And yes I've been using the latest modems. My battery can also spin like a top. For a very long time I might add. Some other dude with a regular Qwerty phone has a battery that can spin, but it only spins for like 3 seconds. His phone is pretty old.
My phone is about a year old and the battery spins for ever. I guess this is a good test to see how bloated your battery is, since I can't really look at it and tell.
I do charge over night since my phone would die over night. I don't think my phone will fry right now since my phone is on the charger and the battery temperature is at 66 Fahrenheit (18 Celsius). Ordered a new battery hoping for the best. And I will be using ROMs that are based on the FF18 with the new battery.
first power button broke, now battery is taking a **** upon itself, exact same issues
Check this out... as I said, after my wife had been having this issue for a couple weeks on her stock E4GT, on Thursday her phone would never boot past the boot screen. She took it into Sprint on Friday and they determined the battery was bad. They tried a new battery, still wouldn't get past the boot screen. They ordered her a new phone 'overnight' which is supposed to arrive Monday. She is going into withdrawal, so for the hell of it I plugged her phone in, booted to stock recovery and did a factory reset... reboot and the phone (apart from the bad battery) works perfectly. My wife asks why they wouldn't have done that at the Sprint store? What a bunch of idiots!
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arionfrost said:
Hello,
so I got the bloated battery issue myself, and had to order another battery. I have seen many threads pop up in the last month concerning this issue, on here, androidcentral, and even the sprint forums!
There doesn't seem to be a unified thread, so I would like to try to get one going. Sprint/Samsung probably doesn't know how widespread this issue is becoming. I think its a more serious problem than we think, and isn't relagated to a few random people. Myself and my friend, who both got our phones around the same time, who both run the same build of ICS started exhibiting the following issues:
1. Insane and unpredictable battery life drops. I'm talking 88% while browsing the web, and then instant reboot and phone is down to 10%.
2. Screen flickers as if auto brightness can't make up its mind, instant reboot.
3. LOS, then reboot.
4. Any intensive apps: camera, gps, sometimes even just streaming music, causes the phone to lock up, pressing home does nothing, may even require reboot.
5. Removing battery, and then letting phone sit for 1-2 minutes, then putting it back in an powering up brings battery level back up to stable temporarily.
6. Battery Bloat, and inevitable: permadeath. Can't hold a charge.
This seems to me to be a consistent occurence along with recent builds of ICS.
I would like to get to the bottom of this. I don't plan on keeping this phone much longer (I ordered a Nexus 4, still in order limbo tho), but it could be of help to the community if we know the how's and why's.
Questions:
- Are you experience these symptoms?
- If so, when did they start, give a specific build number?
- Have you experienced battery bloat? (battery seems to be slightly expanding outward, not completely flat)
- Do you keep your phone on the charger overnight? (This may or may not be related, but maybe a recent ICS change disables something that stops the battery from overcharging)
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I have the above listed problems with my SOny Xperia Arc S after I updated it to ICS.. It is kinda frustrating..coz it turns on and off by itself, or sometimes it just froze that will makes me manually take out the battery..But when I haven't updated it to ICS there are no problems like this...
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I have the above listed problems with my SOny Xperia Arc S after I updated it to ICS.. It is kinda frustrating..coz it turns on and off by itself, or sometimes it just froze that will makes me manually take out the battery..But when I haven't updated it to ICS there are no problems like this...
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Do look in what forum you are replying to before replying. This is the E4GT forum. NOT Sony!
This is a specific problem related to E4GT. I think its the characteristics of this problem that make it unique, the instantly dead battery, the battery bloating, and something to do with recent ICS updates. I am hypothesizing that it has to do with battery overcharging that somehow got introduced to recent builds of ICS that is causing this.
I just got my new battery in yesterday, and sure enough, it fixed all of these problems. It's an Anker battery, and, although I am no expert on batteries, its a really nice third party battery, and feels weightier than the stock Samsung battery. Now I'm worried that ICS will destroy this battery as well, so I am being very conservative when it comes to charging.
I was having the same issue with my last E4GT running FI27 STOCK ROOTED.
1) LOS to reboot then low battery from full
2) using apps like spotify, maps and voice search on 3g would also cause it to reboot to low battery
3) screen flickers (like cm10 flicker) and then reboots
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I don't think the issue is related to ics but rather the age of the phone, but i could be wrong.
Has anyone had their battery die after upgrading to ICS when their phone was less than 8 months old?
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Beremat said:
I don't think the issue is related to ics but rather the age of the phone, but i could be wrong.
Has anyone had their battery die after upgrading to ICS when their phone was less than 8 months old?
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Pesonally, I agree... my belief is that this is a battery age issue. Now, I won't say that the battery should age so quickly or that it should start bloating, but no one has had this issue with a newish battery have they (say, newer than 6 months)?
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Pesonally, I agree... my belief is that this is a battery age issue. Now, I won't say that the battery should age so quickly or that it should start bloating, but no one has had this issue with a newish battery have they (say, newer than 6 months)?
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I dunno man. I have had an Epic 4G, an HTC Evo, and evne HTC Hero that I kept for quite a while and their batteries never bloated and exhibited these kind of software based issues. Sure batteries degrade over time, but it's almost like the software was glitching out when it was killing my battery and causing strange reboots and lock ups, not to mention instant drain.
new battery bloating within 2 weeks
rsngfrce said:
Pesonally, I agree... my belief is that this is a battery age issue. Now, I won't say that the battery should age so quickly or that it should start bloating, but no one has had this issue with a newish battery have they (say, newer than 6 months)?
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Hi there, first post here, I was just browsing the web for help with this issue and found this thread. My galaxy s2 eg4 also had the bloated battery after ics update, it was shutting off randomly, flickering, etc. I replaced the battery first part of december 2012, and within 2 weeks it had started doing the same thing again, but not as often. Sure enough, brand new, previously flat battery was slightly bloated. It has gradually gotten worse, so I just purchased 2 new anker batteries to see if they fare better. When I changed the battery and took out my one month old battery, it was quite bloated and spun for quite a while.
Hoping it does better with the anker batteries, but only time will tell.
Batteries bloating has nothing to do with ICS or the software. Its a heat issue and weak cell walls inside the OEM batteries. The cell walls barely meet requirements to make the 1800mah cells fit in a 1500mah size housing and they don't hold up well to high temps. as the battery reaches 120°F+ the solid state chemicals used in the cells begin to expand, a normal battery's cell walls can withstand the slight increase in pressure but the thinner walls in these batteries begin to crack and/or separate from the housing and then the chemicals can mix. Once the chemicals begin to mix the reaction causes the air inside the battery to expand and swells the housing out as it has nowhere to escape.
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I have the same problem l. Even with a 3800mah battery. It will start.acting up and if it gets better it will all of sidden go up to 70% or more, and i know it takes a couple of hours to get it to 70% from being dead at 15% or less.
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Hi there, first post here, I was just browsing the web for help with this issue and found this thread. My galaxy s2 eg4 also had the bloated battery after ics update, it was shutting off randomly, flickering, etc. I replaced the battery first part of december 2012, and within 2 weeks it had started doing the same thing again, but not as often. Sure enough, brand new, previously flat battery was slightly bloated. It has gradually gotten worse, so I just purchased 2 new anker batteries to see if they fare better. When I changed the battery and took out my one month old battery, it was quite bloated and spun for quite a while.
Hoping it does better with the anker batteries, but only time will tell.
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I have been using the anker battery for over two weeks and no issues, longer battery life, etc. So far, so good. :fingers-crossed:
Most definitely a battery issue, especially when your phone is a year old or close to it, I don't know what was up with ics but that sure put hurting on the Epic Touch.
I have two Epic's and they are both 14 months old and in Dec they both got new batteries, an Anker and a original Samsung and they are both running like new again. Ones on GB and the other is on JB roms.
They both experienced the bloted battery syndrome and they also experienced ics, for a short period before going back to GB and now JB. Ics was a catalyst for the batteries to fail the way they did, not to mention that charging and discharging a battery for a year or so is going to also take a battery to its limits, especially when you plug it in overnight. At present we have no issues with our Epic's and we are just going to wait it out for the GS4 to get here before we upgrade.
EViL is on the right track even thought he likes to break stuff.
Pp.
sent from a jellybean filled epic touch.
Dear all,
Recently my Note is facing a weird problem. While my son is playing a game, the battery drops 20-30% in 10 minutes. If I shut down the tablet and re-power then the battery goes to normal again.
In the battery stats I can see a huge drop during game usage and then up again on reboot.
I performed a factory reset but the same happens....
I flashed the Kit Kat via Odin.... but the same
Any ideas?
Drain the battery down to below 5% then charge it to 100 and it should be fine. It happened to me once and after a full charge after a full drain it never did it again
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toyanucci said:
Drain the battery down to below 5% then charge it to 100 and it should be fine. It happened to me once and after a full charge after a full drain it never did it again
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This is what worries me.
I drained the battery and charged it fully powered off. It did it again. I drained the battery and charged it fully powered on. It did it again.
If I'm using it for browsing, papyrus, images etc its fine. This happens only in games and when i reboot the battery percentage is ok again.
strange....
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This is what worries me.
I drained the battery and charged it fully powered off. It did it again. I drained the battery and charged it fully powered on. It did it again.
If I'm using it for browsing, papyrus, images etc its fine. This happens only in games and when i reboot the battery percentage is ok again.
strange....
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I had the exact same problem as you are describing but additionally, my overall battery life wasn't lasting as long as it should either. I ended up sending it to Samsung's repair center to get fixed. I'm not sure what they did but some other people on the forums suggested it was a motherboard issue.
So the capacity of the battery seemed just fine but the readings were crazy (dropping from 50 to 5 in minutes and then on reboot back on 50).
After 2-3 full cycles of charging nothing changed. Flashed fw nothing changed. Went to Samsung service and they just informed me that they changed the battery and now performing final checks.
Hope this will solve the issue. I'm too lucky that I am in the "6 months warranty" window for battery...
How does one go about sending it into Samsung? After getting it back, did you see a significant change?
I've been debating doing this but wasn't sure how to go about it.
I haven't got it back yet. They just called me and they said that apart from the battery, they need to change another part (the telephone operator didn't know which part) and I'm going to receive it tomorrow.
So I'll let you know once I receive it.
STELIOSFAN said:
Dear all,
Recently my Note is facing a weird problem. While my son is playing a game, the battery drops 20-30% in 10 minutes. If I shut down the tablet and re-power then the battery goes to normal again.
In the battery stats I can see a huge drop during game usage and then up again on reboot.
I performed a factory reset but the same happens....
I flashed the Kit Kat via Odin.... but the same
Any ideas?
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Did you fix the problem ? I have the same problem and i don't know how to fix it. (i am with 4.3 not rooted).
Rupar4o said:
Did you fix the problem ? I have the same problem and i don't know how to fix it. (i am with 4.3 not rooted).
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After trying everything (flashing different roms via odin, factory reset, full battery cycles etc) the problem never went away.
Went to Samsung service. They checked the battery and had to replace it.... within the warranty.
Same issue here. Just got an email saying its fixed. They changed the charging port and lcd. Weird that they replaced the lcd.
Well I got it back. Seems they broke the s pen function when taking it out or putting in. The tablet thinks it's always out of its slot. I guess another 2 weeks without this thing. What a pain in the ass. Times like this makes me wish I bought an ipad where I could just walk into the store and get it fixed that day.
I had the same problem. I sent it back on Monday and got it back 7 days later. They did not say what they changed, but now everything is working fine. I even got a new usb cable and a magnetic Germany flag
I sent mine in for an overheating problem and they changed the charging port and gave me a new cable. I initially also had the random drops in battery but seems to be better now.. They said bad voltage going to charging the battery or something. Still have overheating so gotta send it in again?
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So guys did you get it fixed? I have exactly the same problem. I have sent it to fix at the sam service - they changed the charging port, but it didn't help anything. 1,5 years of normal usage and now I can pretty much throw it into the toilet. God damn POS!
Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 battery drops
Hello all,
Just wanted to inform you all that I have been experiencing these battery drops (yesterday from 93% to a mere 5% in a matter of minutes) for a very long time now. I am running under the latest 4.4.2 stock firmware.
Also, battery life is way below par (understatement !), where the Note sometimes drops to around or below 5% (the magic number below which the screen starts to dim pretty dramatically and there's no way to influence that)
Funny thing is that after the battery drops to below 5% or even 1 or 2%, it's still possible to use the tablet for quite a number of hours afterwards, which suggests it may be something with the logic estimating/determining the remaining battery capacity, rather than the battery itself....)
Now I've tried draining the battery and fully recharging it multiple times/ resetting the stats using free apps / revert to factory settings etc.
All to no avail unfortunately, this problem simply keeps coming back.
(By the way: Apart from the battery and battery life, the Note is an excellent device, and delivers as promised.
Please also note that charging it through the microUSB cable is also simple, stable and relatively fast, unless you compare it of course to my all new Samsung Galaxy Note 4, which has a superior fast charge mode and offers the highest possible battery-life at this moment and easily beats any other smartphone (including the usual suspects from that Cupertino-based firm of which I can't force my mind to remember the name of.....) in this price-quality and performance category )
As for warranty:
Battery is no longer under warranty, the device itself is.
As such, I will now get the battery replaced by a new Samsung OEM-battery first, and see if that resolves the issue.
If it doesn't help, I will send it in for repair for Samsung.
I will keep you all informed on the resolution and cause.
Likewise, if there's anyone that has gotten to the root cause of this issue, please let me / let us know
Some users reported some 'magic part' OTHER than the battery itself (motherboard / charging circuit or even the lcd ??) having been replaced by Samsung after sending it in for repair.
That information could be very valuable to us all in trying to get Samsung to resolve the issue, so I would really appreciate it if someone would share this info in this thread.
Hey I know that there hasn't been much activity on this particular thread, but i too have been experiencing this problem for over a year now. I sent it into samsung twice and it still never fixed the issue and by the time i was going to send it in the 3rd time it was out of warranty. I personally removed the back cover and unplugged the battery for a while and that did not help. I have tried flashing different ROMS and kernels to no avail until last week. I flashed Temasek's Unofficial Build found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...t/lt03wifi-temaseks-unofficial-build-t2980604 and after 3 full power cycles i have not had a single random drop yet i even managed to go 3 days with 6 hours of screen on time which is a record for me with this device. Not sure if it will help everyone but this seems to have solved my problem and i am thrilled! Also (as embarrassing as it is) i played 2.5 hours of Clash of Clans straight without a single random drop either.
I am beginning to have the issue as well on my P605v. Has there been any progress with your battery replacement? @mroset
KwestJones said:
I am beginning to have the issue as well on my P605v. Has there been any progress with your battery replacement? @mroset
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Hello KwestJones,
I've successfully replaced the battery in the Note 10.1 2014, and it has improved things. With a little care, this is easy to do. Just removing the battery connector is a bit typical, you need to lift it carefully and slightly to remove it.
The result is not as drastic of an improvement as I would like to have seen, but at least the sudden drops in battery capacity percentage seem to be under control now.
I am doing a video test now, and will see how it behaves and let you know.
BR,
Maarten
Very curious to hear if replacing the battery corrected this issue. I've been experiencing this same battery drop issue for 2 or 3 months and the unit is well outside of warranty. Hoping there's a simpler fix, but willing to replace the battery if that will work since the tablet itself is still a great unit.
Complete factory reset should clear the Android Coulometer's data base or learning algorithm. Just clearing options of Battery Monitor Widget for rooted devices won't help. There are some other apps, which seem to help if the charge level never reaches 100%, a related, but not identical problem.
I have an old tablet suffering from this, with a tweaked custom rom, and i didn't want to clear and setup that completely. The algorithm or database is "learning" again, and the capacity jumps have become fewer and smaller over the last months. It should depend on how long the device was used and never reset before the incident. In my case over a year.
Itvs much like my cars fuel calculator, which won't work correctly during traffic light stops. Right after starting the engine, fuel consumption can raise several liters/h, when the car don't drive, as it uses the last sampled value(every 30 meters). And you need several kilometers to drive to have these levels drop to realistic ones again. While after a long driving distance, a traffic light stop will hardly have an influence.
So, my battery is wack... and I think it's only been acting like this since I went to a KK ROM? Maybe? Feels like it...
I've had this tablet since it was released last fall, and this behavior is very recent.
Anyways, it dies FAST. Like nose dives in a matter of 5-15 minutes. What's even weirder, is that sometimes, if I power cycle the device, it'll jump up by 30-60%. But then just dies again in another 5-15 minutes.
And there's a screenshot after I just power-cycled.
It jumped from 11% to 71%!!
Crazy!
I've also tried letting it get to 5% then charging it to 100%, done that twice. No luck. I don't know if this is related, but if I power it completely off, and plug it in, it turns on... kinda weird. My Note 3 doesn't do that, it just stays off and shows the battery charge indicator.
NaxIonz said:
So, my battery is wack... and I think it's only been acting like this since I went to a KK ROM? Maybe? Feels like it...
I've had this tablet since it was released last fall, and this behavior is very recent.
Anyways, it dies FAST. Like nose dives in a matter of 5-15 minutes. What's even weirder, is that sometimes, if I power cycle the device, it'll jump up by 30-60%. But then just dies again in another 5-15 minutes.
And there's a screenshot after I just power-cycled.
It jumped from 11% to 71%!!
Crazy!
I've also tried letting it get to 5% then charging it to 100%, done that twice. No luck. I don't know if this is related, but if I power it completely off, and plug it in, it turns on... kinda weird. My Note 3 doesn't do that, it just stays off and shows the battery charge indicator.
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Hi, I have similar problem and I am with 4.3 android. I have battery loss when I play games. It drops to 2-3% really fast and after reboot it goes up to 35-40%. Once I fully depleted my battery and charge it. This time there were no battery lost. After the second charging problem persists.
If you manage to fixed it please tell us how.
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Hi, I have similar problem and I am with 4.3 android. I have battery loss when I play games. It drops to 2-3% really fast and after reboot it goes up to 35-40%. Once I fully depleted my battery and charge it. This time there were no battery lost. After the second charging problem persists.
If you manage to fixed it please tell us how.
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No fix yet... still looking for a solution
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No fix yet... still looking for a solution
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In other thread one guy says that he has the same problem and he just go to the store and they change his battery.
Rupar4o said:
In other thread one guy says that he has the same problem and he just go to the store and they change his battery.
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Well, I doubt that I can do that since I have a Custom ROM on my tablet
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same here
I have a similar problem with my p600. the tablet is new, got it since a month or less.
at first i was amazed of the battery life i use it a lot for work writing documents and sheets on excel, battery used to perfom quite well giving me more than 5 hours of screen on, but recently the battery starts to drop very fast, now i can barely get around 2 hours of screen on.
i've already done 2 cycles of full discharge and then charge it completely with the tablet turned off. but the problem stills.
also sometimes when i reboot the tablet the battery goes from i.e 20% to 40% after the reboot.
im still looking for a fix or solution, today i found a new official firmware for my model (4.4 firmware for telcel mexico). going to wait until the tablet is fully charged and then flash the new firmware. I dont know if its going to help but i got nothing to lose.
by the way, sending it to semsung is not an option because of knox 0x1
vashminted said:
I have a similar problem with my p600. the tablet is new, got it since a month or less.
at first i was amazed of the battery life i use it a lot for work writing documents and sheets on excel, battery used to perfom quite well giving me more than 5 hours of screen on, but recently the battery starts to drop very fast, now i can barely get around 2 hours of screen on.
i've already done 2 cycles of full discharge and then charge it completely with the tablet turned off. but the problem stills.
also sometimes when i reboot the tablet the battery goes from i.e 20% to 40% after the reboot.
im still looking for a fix or solution, today i found a new official firmware for my model (4.4 firmware for telcel mexico). going to wait until the tablet is fully charged and then flash the new firmware. I dont know if its going to help but i got nothing to lose.
by the way, sending it to semsung is not an option because of knox 0x1
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sorry to revive an old thread. I have this exact issue! it's driving me bonkers! Any fixes?
brett_day said:
sorry to revive an old thread. I have this exact issue! it's driving me bonkers! Any fixes?
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try this, bring life back to battery. If you use the trial version, keep exit and redo it until all cells are done.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BoshBashStudios.batterydoctorrepair
buhohitr said:
try this, bring life back to battery. If you use the trial version, keep exit and redo it until all cells are done.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BoshBashStudios.batterydoctorrepair
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perfect thanks. I will def give this a try.
brett_day said:
perfect thanks. I will def give this a try.
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Well unfortunately this has not worked....battery is still tanking. last night i played plague for 30 minutes....in 30 mins battery went from 90% to 25%. I think i will try reflashing KitKat....maybe my original update was screwy. If that does not fix it then I guess I will have to call Sammy.
Man i ha e exactly the same problem. I calibrated it some months ago and it seemed to work fine. Now the problem is back.... Dont know what to do... I have tried several apps, though i read google doesn't recomend to use any app to fix the battery... we really need help here
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vashminted said:
I have a similar problem with my p600. the tablet is new, got it since a month or less.
at first i was amazed of the battery life i use it a lot for work writing documents and sheets on excel, battery used to perfom quite well giving me more than 5 hours of screen on, but recently the battery starts to drop very fast, now i can barely get around 2 hours of screen on.
i've already done 2 cycles of full discharge and then charge it completely with the tablet turned off. but the problem stills.
also sometimes when i reboot the tablet the battery goes from i.e 20% to 40% after the reboot.
im still looking for a fix or solution, today i found a new official firmware for my model (4.4 firmware for telcel mexico). going to wait until the tablet is fully charged and then flash the new firmware. I dont know if its going to help but i got nothing to lose.
by the way, sending it to semsung is not an option because of knox 0x1
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Bumping up I have the same exact problem... any fixes?
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Sorry to bump this, has anyone found a solution yet.
I've replaced the battery 3 times in about 9 months, but had this issue about a yr, was sent back to Samsung who changed the battery and supposedly updated the fw 4.4.2, I have since replaced the battery another 3 times every 3 months, each time either factory resetting or flashing a new rom, currently on official Smp600 5.1.1 BTU rom, today my battery was on 47%, I plugged in charger and was watching/streaming a movie on it, about 80 minutes later the tablet shut off, which was odd it's never powered off while on charge, powered it back on and battery said 19%, my previous issues has been the same as others, it can be on 100%, play a game, or stream a movie,or watch youtube etc and it will nosedive dramatically 20/30% at a time, sometimes within 10 mins it's gone from 100% to less than 30%, it's clear there's some sort of issue if others have it, I was wondering if a thread should be made to list ppl with this issue to see how many there are and go from there.
reeps said:
Sorry to bump this, has anyone found a solution yet.
I've replaced the battery 3 times in about 9 months, but had this issue about a yr, was sent back to Samsung who changed the battery and supposedly updated the fw 4.4.2, I have since replaced the battery another 3 times every 3 months, each time either factory resetting or flashing a new rom, currently on official Smp600 5.1.1 BTU rom, today my battery was on 47%, I plugged in charger and was watching/streaming a movie on it, about 80 minutes later the tablet shut off, which was odd it's never powered off while on charge, powered it back on and battery said 19%, my previous issues has been the same as others, it can be on 100%, play a game, or stream a movie,or watch youtube etc and it will nosedive dramatically 20/30% at a time, sometimes within 10 mins it's gone from 100% to less than 30%, it's clear there's some sort of issue if others have it, I was wondering if a thread should be made to list ppl with this issue to see how many there are and go from there.
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I've been having the same issue for some time now. Calibrating the battery does help, I don't experience the problem nearly as much after calibrating it. But it'll still nosedive on occasion, maybe once a week. This is the app I use to calibrate it https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration
Hi Folks
i'm really hoping someone can help me on this, i have a note2 that ive had for about 2 years, its been rooted for around 8 months but still on the stock ROM, the past month i have had a strange problem with the battery, when the battery runs out or gets low and i turn the phone off to charge it the large green battery icon comes up on the screen, but even though the battery is dead or just about, the large battery icon says its got about 75%?, it charges up and i wait until it reaches 100% before unplugging it.
But i know that it used to show the correct amount of charge in the battery and then gradually build up, i have tried various battery calibration apps but none seem to make any difference, i didnt think they would having read up on them but thought it was worth a try.
Do you think its the battery itself?, i just dont know what to try next
Thanks
Pete
The battery charging doesnt work properley on modded bootloaders as far as I know. You need to charge while phone is booted.
aah, but it does charge when its powered down, and this problem only started about a month ago, yet the phone has been rooted a lot longer than that?
Thanks for replying
Pete
I also have same problem anyone knows solution for this???
Ever since I upgraded to Marshmallow, the phone is shutting off at 35%.
If I plug it into a fast charger it'll start back up. Non fast charger forget it. Battery shows 35% when I plug it in to charge.
Took it to Best Buy after speaking to an AT&T tech. The Samsung rep at BB, said he ran some recovery software to check for missing or corrupted files associated with the upgrade. It appeared that they just reinstalled the 6.01 update.
Anyways it did nothing and the Samsung tech said I could try doing a factory reset or maybe try a new battery. He then said that if the problem started after the the MM update, then that's the issue. He mumbled something about the phone just wasn't able to handle MM blah blah blah.
ATT offered to ship me a new phone with a working upgrade.
Before I go that route or try a factory reset, I thought I'd check here for other ideas.
Not happy with the phone since the MM upgrade. Along with the phone shutting off issue, it's shutting off while charging on my wireless charger, phone screen is screwed up in landscape mode and doesn't show any of the buttons that show in portrait mode.
Is there a battery calibration app that will run on this without root?
I'm a computer tech, with a VZW N4. I popped over here to see if I could help a friend with the ATT N4. Looks like he's stuck without root, but saw your post and decided to reply.
I always recommend installing 'Battery Left Widget' from the Play Store and use it on the main screen. If you want to test the battery... do the following. But I'd recommend getting a new battery. It's most likely the cause of your problem.
Go to the settings and change the 'Discharging Widget Man Text' to "Estimated Battery %". The other settings can be as you wish, but I prefer the 2nd to be time remaining and 3rd to be time dead. Do the same for the charging options.
Let it calibrate for a few days. If you see a big discrepancy between the system battery (in the top right) and the widget, you've got a dying battery. Buy a new one. My Verizon version of the Note 4 started dying at 22% and rebooting. Dying battery was the cause. I knew this because it would read 72% in the top, but 42% in Battery Left Widget. And when it would get to 5% in the widget, it would start rebooting. The other battery at the top was reading much higher. A new battery fixed my woes. However the OTA upgrade to MM did a job on the battery too.
One word of advice ... turn off Fast Charging. It probably killed your battery in the first place. The original Samsung chargers will still charge it to full in a couple hours, but Fast Charging does something bad to the batteries, and they don't last as long. I know, I've had a Note 4 since day one, and I'm on my 4th battery.
A note about MM upgrade. I have to say, I wasn't a fan either. My battery didn't last as long on MM as it did on LP. The tricks about doing a full wipe didn't help. The only fix was to get my VZW model rooted and I regained control. Now I have a MM rom that actually works well and gives me 15 hours a day of usage, 3+ hours of on screen time.
What rom you are using anyway. I have changed my battery and switched to miui 8. But problem remains same with an extended battery life... But mine won't charge more than 67% and shut down @ 12% with a SOT of 3 hours and above.
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What rom you are using anyway. I have changed my battery and switched to miui 8. But problem remains same with an extended battery life... But mine won't charge more than 67% and shut down @ 12% with a SOT of 3 hours and above.
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I would try your battery in another device, just as a test.
Well ... mine is a VZW Note 4, not AT&T. I've used multiple roms over the past few months. I don't know what type of extended battery you are using, but if it's the ZeroLemon, it may need a better kernel to work with it. The phone doesn't know about extended batteries without additional instructions, so charging and time to empty can vary.
I just know I will NEVER buy another Samsung battery from anywhere. I think 99% of them are fake. I went with an Anker brand and it's been perfect.
Currently, I'm running MODest v5 ROM. I just installed Nseven on a 2nd device as a test. As for the MODest ROM, after only a couple of days of testing, it looks like I'll get even better battery life than I did with PaulPizz v2 (over 16 hours of heavy use compared to the 13 with PaulPizz)
Thanks for your quick reply... Im using samsung original Stock battery and there is sticker of smart care and it is from a samsung showroom
So no idea its original or not.. Should have been original... My note 4 SM 910S SK tel korian version so the rom options are very limited. Do not have any warranty period left so im confused whether i should go for a hardware checkup... Anyway im pissed of since the marshmallow arrives....the problem started right after that update.. Since then i have changed rom changed battery.. So now i guess i have to change the phone finally... Anyway thanks for your reply..
I have the same problem with charging to only 67%
If you take out the battery it will continue charging to 100%.
All this cr*p started when updated to MM
Going back to stock 5.0.1 and doing the #*0228# reset should help.
And samsung batteries are a disaster, even the genuines ones.