I'm talking like ten.percent in like ten minutes here. about a week ago I had the usb corrosion issue where the phone reported that it was still charging even though it was unplugged from the wall. it would blink charging constantly on the lick screen as if it was being plugged and unplugged. I took some advice and bent and cleaned out the USB port and this stopped the weird behavior, however my battery drain is horrendous now. I'm suspecting it's due to this same issue..
Any ideas?
It seems like it's time to calibrate your battery. I'm not sure which calibration method is the best in the market and I'm still testing on it. Sometimes 10% drop in 10 minutes is not strange and it could be caused by wrong calculation...
But the good thing is, at some point of time battery percentage would be increased even without recharging because it has more capacity than its calculation. It's the reason why we need the calibration. Especially battery calibration is recommended when the rom is changed.
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Ah battery calibration didn't help, I might just need to do a hard brick and get a new phone.
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Ah battery calibration didn't help, I might just need to do a hard brick and get a new phone.
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Double facepalm, for when one facepalm just isn't enough...
Sounds like you have an app that is rev'ing your cpu.
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It seems like it's time to calibrate your battery. I'm not sure which calibration method is the best in the market and I'm still testing on it. Sometimes 10% drop in 10 minutes is not strange and it could be caused by wrong calculation...
But the good thing is, at some point of time battery percentage would be increased even without recharging because it has more capacity than its calculation. It's the reason why we need the calibration. Especially battery calibration is recommended when the rom is changed.
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A Google engineer who works on Android recently said battery calibration is voodoo. She said it is just a log file and has no effect on battery life.
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Install better battery stats and see what's preventing the phone from deep sleeping.
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Or install Badass Battery Monitor. Check app sucker. It will let you know what's draining battery.
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Just take it to a Sprint service center, as long as they dont see any physical damage there is a fair chance you can get a replacement free of charge. (or $35 if you dont have TEP).
If that doesnt work, ask them if they put in a different battery to see if thats an issue.
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A Google engineer who works on Android recently said battery calibration is voodoo. She said it is just a log file and has no effect on battery life.
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No... they said that deleting that file does nothing. Not that all kinds of calibration do nothing.
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No... they said that deleting that file does nothing. Not that all kinds of calibration do nothing.
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I had the same problem and I took it to the Sprint store and got a new phone shipped to my house. No matter what I did, the charging light stayed on and my phone was destroying my battery.
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Is it on wifi?
What's your awake time compared to there rest?
What are your other settings?
How many emails syncing? If any
I a curious since I'm about to go to a sprint store and get a new unit
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Didn't change anything all settings are default with the exception of bluetooth and gps, they're turned off because I don't use them much.
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Didn't change anything all settings are default with the exception of bluetooth and gps, they're turned off because I don't use them much. View attachment 726043
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Yeah, but let's see your awake time and all that? Click on the graph
I use wifi a lot, but I had 3G on some today as well...
should i take it to a sprint store?
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should i take it to a sprint store?
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You didn't post enough info
your display time is more important. i cant gauge ppl's battery life without knowing that. i like to compare it with mine to see where i stand (+ voice calls tiime on)
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should i take it to a sprint store?
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What?
The Evo3D Killer!!!
o mine? lol
so far 8 hrs with 1hr 8 minutes on
24%
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o mine? lol
so far 8 hrs with 1hr 8 minutes on
24%
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Post a Screenie of your battery use...
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Thru xda app
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Battery life is beast.
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OK I hope someone finds this useful and/or can verify. I was one of those people getting awful battery life, meaning lucky to last 8 hours from 100% to 0%. The "Android OS" process would take hours of CPU time. Now it will take up maybe 30 min over the course of the day. Here is the only thing I did between the time it went from bad to good. I changed the wifi sleep policy. It is by default (for me at least) set to never. I changed it to "when the screen turns off" and left it there for about an hour. Then went in and changed it back to never. From the point of doing this my battery life has been great.
I know it sounds strange but it seems to have worked for me so I thought I would share.
Yeah, battery life is going to depend on services that are running on the background. It'll be different from people to people. You shouldn't exchange your phone because you're not getting the same results as someone else.
I dunno how you guys are getting that battery life. I think there must be something really messed up on my device. Stupid "Android OS"!
Screenshots show at 38% after 6.5 hours off the charger.
I'd post a link to some screenshots if I could. But my Android OS is at 27% and display is at 47%.
Good day everyone, I've been using CM9 for awhile now and its been an awesome ride so far. Everythings been working almost perfectly. Recently, my batteries(stock one) percentage level's been Jumping up and down...a lot. For instance, I woke up to it (while off) having 100% on the indicator, turned it on, and it dropped to 51%, re-booted it to see if that'd help but it dropped again to 12%. This kindof things been happening for awhile and still with Alpha 2. Should I just get a replacement from sprint? Or is there a workaround.
Also, Music's apparently been taking up to as much as 40% of my battery usage even though If don't even have it activated at the moment. I've tried deleting the apk but it appears com.android..., I may just be being a noob, but any help?
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Jump" is typical when you don't power off completely and then power back on no work around other than turn it off leave the battery out for like 3 or 4 minutes and power it back up
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Try an app called bloat freezer or paid version of Titanium Backup and freeze music.
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Have you tried calibrating ur battery? Give that a try and see if that doesn't stop it completely.
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Have you tried calibrating ur battery? Give that a try and see if that doesn't stop it completely.
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Apparently calibrating the battery according to some Android Engineer does nothing. The percentage you have left is directly related to the voltage of the battery. So if you are at 3.95 volts, that roughly corresponds to 50% with a range of 3.7 to 4.2 Volts on the battery. What the OP saw is the bbb...battery boot bug. If you are rebooting and you are lower than 70% do it while plugged into something. If it does happen as Biggie stated, simply remove the battery for a couple of minutes and reboot. It is a false report to the phone.
This has almost always been a issue for me when I flash anything new. It stays that way for until I deplete the battery, connect and leave connected til 100%, deplete the battery and follow the same process for about 3 full cycles and then all is well! Leaving battery out for a breather sometimes helps but I installed an app that has a widget and it keeps the regulating kinda monitered so I can be a little more at ease. Will post directly after this. But I also noticed that there have been times when the readout was a very low battery red [but I knew couldn't be true] and after I put it in airplane mode and didn't bother it for 5-10 minutes when I looked back again, battery would be yellow almost back to showing good and my battery stats show the levels increased. I think cm9 can't handle too much at one time anyways
Edit: that app I think is called battery info. Its pretty simple =) hope it helps! L8rz
Edit2: that app is listed in market as battery widget not battery info
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I've noticed that the screen on my Nitro HD seems to use a ridiculous amount of battery, even at ~20% brightness.
With the screen off most of the time, I can get pretty decent battery life:
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However, with the screen on, the battery seems to drain at a rate of 1% every ~1-2 minutes, even at low brightness settings. You can actually see it in the screenshot above...the sharp downward sloping sections are when the screen was on.
Is anyone else experiencing similar battery drain from the screen, or is my particular screen defective in some way?
It is a consequence of using of hi quality ips display in this phone...
My phone is being abnormally horrible today.. This is absolutely ridiculous,i can see the battery bar just draining by looking at it. I took screen shots but for some reason it says incorrect file extension,i don't usually have any problems.
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The problem is the ICS rom your using, which im assuming is CM9. Thats one of the problems everybody is having with it, and it will eventually go away as bugs are fixed and updates are released.
I'm expecting it to be fixed CM9 RC1, it may not be, but i dont see why RC would release a non-nightly with such a huge widespread problem.
I'm in stock..
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My battery is draining like insane. I can see with my eyes how its draining. Does anyone know how to fix this. I had all the galaxy s2's and other phones none of them did this.
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I've seen this aswell
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Man nobody buying this phones? This place is empty
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Yeah I've had bad battery life with this phone too. Especially after flashing a new rom or with the stock rom but I have noticed that the battery life was great with ho!no!'s first rom. Now with cm9 and the nightlies I can't judge it because I'm always flashing the new update. I've noticed that roms need to "settle in" and that after a few days the battery is better.
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I don't know when I start using the phone it gets hot and battery drains. I got the phone today. I really like the hardware better then samsang but this battery is crap. Its all stock no root or anything.
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I don't know when I start using the phone it gets hot and battery drains. I got the phone today. I really like the hardware better then samsang but this battery is crap. Its all stock no root or anything.
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It gets better if you remove the crapware and remove the LG launcher and use a different one.
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It gets better if you remove the crapware and remove the LG launcher and use a different one.
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went to a different launcher and now the battery is definetly lasting longer.
used to go from 7am to 6pm with just using phone, txt, and e-mail -> %5 left
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from 7am to 8pm with phone, txt, e-mail, games, surfing -> %15 to %20 left
can't wait to root and remove crud
Just got my s3 like a week or so. I made a mistake and not charge it initially (thought it was a myth). I used my battery all the way to 17%. Now my battery only average up to 2 hours screen on. My sister who also got the phone as the same time has about right hour screen on time. Did I screw up or it's just my battery being defective
EDIT: attached is the battery stats
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What's brightness set to, and what are you doing while the screen is on? You on WiFi most of the time?
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What's brightness set to, and what are you doing while the screen is on? You on WiFi most of the time?
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Well, when I'm in door, I use low brightness most of the time. Only when I'm outside I would use auto brightness. Since I'm in wifi zone most of the time, yes I do have wifi on. I mostly use my phone for twitter, web browsing, and youtube, nothing heavy like gaming or benchmark.
Hard to say if its defective but I've definitely seen a lot better battery. It might not hurt to try and get a new one.
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you should calibrate your battery a couple times once you get the phone. do it a couple times and it will fix itself. also check all your syncing settings. this phone will deplete a battery in 5-6 hours if fully charged and phone brightness is up all the way while watching videos.
Calibrating batteries is a myth from the days of older battery technology. Draining your battery to 0 on purpose is actually killing your battery faster because you just used up one cycle.
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Calibrating batteries is a myth from the days of older battery technology. Draining your battery to 0 on purpose is actually killing your battery faster because you just used up one cycle.
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I think you're right
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There's a bug on stock that makes cell standby much higher than it really is. So I wouldn't worry too much about that.
Also, Google Chrome is a huge battery killer for some reason. Consider switching to a different browser?
Still having the original battery in my vibrant and getting 8-9 hour charges while killing the battery 100% and charging it up once a week does nothing? Same thing for my g2x. I get about 10-11 hours on the thing daily original battery as well. If anything and you're not rooted to delete battery stats, its a good thing to do a couple times. I don't think I have hurt the battery at all, and if anything they still last very long...
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Time to replace a battery, or is something wrong here?
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Using android is like changing a new phone every month!
Better check you apps behaviour and syncs with BetterBatteryStatts and cpu spy for deep sleep. No way a battery drains that fast normaly.
Interesting thing is, I just did a full wipe/factory restore, couldn't be an issue with my apps, could it? Gonna go log my battery in the mean while
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Could it be due to this process "audioOut_2"?
Dont have vibes installed though, yet somehow this is preventing phone from sleeping.
Will try with second handset to see if this is an issue with rebooting phone on silent mode
Using android is like changing a new phone every month!
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Time to replace a battery, or is something wrong here?
Using android is like changing a new phone every month!
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how many screen time? have you put you phone in a hot zone? have yoy been playing while charging for a long time? i say it because it is known that some samsung batteries inflate themselves and decrease the battery life to like about 15 minutes so look if the battery is normal or a bit rounded (fat battery)
hope it helped,
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how many screen time? have you put you phone in a hot zone? have yoy been playing while charging for a long time? i say it because it is known that some samsung batteries inflate themselves and decrease the battery life to like about 15 minutes so look if the battery is normal or a bit rounded (fat battery)
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Hot zone meaning? I haven't been abusing my phone, but when I play some games/surf the Web, the battery seems to die at almost twice the speed it did before.
If buying a new battery would solve this issue, then I would buy without hesitation! I'm just scared that the battery condition is not the main issue with this drain.
Currently doing a full drain/charge to recalibrate the battery
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Hot zone meaning? I haven't been abusing my phone, but when I play some games/surf the Web, the battery seems to die at almost twice the speed it did before.
If buying a new battery would solve this issue, then I would buy without hesitation! I'm just scared that the battery condition is not the main issue with this drain.
Currently doing a full drain/charge to recalibrate the battery
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by hot zone I mean let the phone in the sun or somewhere when the temperature is high. I recommend you to check your battery physically, I mean open the back of the phone and see if the battery is in the same condition as when you received it. As I said before the main problem could be that your battery have been inflated if is this you must replace it not only because the bad performance but also because it is really dangerous(there are acids in there and if it explote..)
However it seems more like a continous draining try calibrating as you said with battery calibration or similars. If the battery starts to decrease its life (i mean today lasts 5h., tomorrow 3h.) it is almost sure what i said about the battery.
hope i helped you somehow
Bests
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