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I have no clue what is going on with my phone, but my battery is doing weird stuff.
1. Sometimes it shows its charging when its not.
2. I get a consistent low battery notification at 15%
3. And it get these weird power glitches.
Anyway if anyone could help. That word be great but I'm about to just call vzw and get a new phone.
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!!!!!!UPDATE!!!
I called Verizon on Monday who told me it was a known issue and a software update would resolve it. However I told them to send me a replacement anyway.
Now today..I plugged the phone into my USB cable connected to my computer and it started smoking!! I swear I zapped something. It still works, but now its all weird. I going to have to use the wireless process of getting it back to stock and locked..so we will see how it goes.
HeCareth said:
I have no clue what is going on with my phone, but my battery is doing weird stuff.
1. Sometimes it shows its charging when its not.
2. I get a consistent low battery notification at 15%
3. And it get these weird power glitches.
Anyway if anyone could help. That word be great but I'm about to just call vzw and get a new phone.
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We need more information.. did you do anything on your phone that might have done this? Can you confirm that battery is fine?
kyokeun1234 said:
We need more information.. did you do anything on your phone that might have done this? Can you confirm that battery is fine?
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Not that I know of, its running CM10 Euroskank.
I also noticed that when I plug it in to the charger it takes about 10 seconds for it to recognize that I plugged it in and start charging.
I had a similar issue on the GSM 4.1.1 stock ROM where the battery voltage was being misreported (using Battery Monitor Widget to check values). Sometimes the voltage didn't decrease with use; sometimes it even increased without being charged - your battery graph seems to show this too.
This problem developed literally overnight and didn't rectify itself over multiple charge/discharge cycles. I changed ROMs to see what would happen and to my relief there were no further problems.
As an option you could try clearing the battery stats in recovery.
Given that a few people in this forum have had sudden battery weirdness, and that a fresh ROM fixed it for me, I suspect there's a rare software bug at work here...
mzxx said:
I had a similar issue on the GSM 4.1.1 stock ROM where the battery voltage was being misreported (using Battery Monitor Widget to check values). Sometimes the voltage didn't decrease with use; sometimes it even increased without being charged - your battery graph seems to show this too.
This problem developed literally overnight and didn't rectify itself over multiple charge/discharge cycles. I changed ROMs to see what would happen and to my relief there were no further problems.
As an option you could try clearing the battery stats in recovery.
Given that a few people in this forum have had sudden battery weirdness, and that a fresh ROM fixed it for me, I suspect there's a rare software bug at work here...
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+1 on clearing battery stats...
kyokeun1234 said:
+1 on clearing battery stats...
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-1 on the clearing of battery stats. It has absolutely nothing to do with it. He'd get the exact same results by changing his ringtone or something else that's totally irrelevant.
Battery stats has nothing to do with the reported percentage of battery. It cannot cause power problems. And it will not affect battery life.
How is it that the wives' tale of clearing battery stats still persists despite the fact that a Google engineer has debunked the myth and that debunking has received wide publicity within the android community?
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I had a very similar problem with galaxy s2. My symptoms were that it thought it was charging when it wasn't, it thought it was usb connected when it wasn't, and my battery graph would just show one long spikey graph for as long as the phone was on. I posted it up and someone clever identified the problem straight away; a short in the usb charging area.
Have you ever spilt any liquid near the usb charging port? It's a replaceable part and I'm sure it's available from the usual place (ie. Ebay).
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UPDATE!! Let it burn!!!
I called Verizon on Monday who told me it was a known issue and a software update would resolve it. However I told them to send me a replacement anyway.
Now today..I plugged the phone into my USB cable connected to my computer and it started smoking!! I swear I zapped something. It still works, but now its all weird. I going to have to use the wireless process of getting it back to stock and locked..so we will see how it goes.
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-1 on the clearing of battery stats. It has absolutely nothing to do with it. He'd get the exact same results by changing his ringtone or something else that's totally irrelevant.
Battery stats has nothing to do with the reported percentage of battery. It cannot cause power problems. And it will not affect battery life.
How is it that the wives' tale of clearing battery stats still persists despite the fact that a Google engineer has debunked the myth and that debunking has received wide publicity within the android community?
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Also, the text file that has the "battery stats" is erased when you reboot, which is the same as manually deleting it with CWM or whatever.
Hi my galaxy S3 is having a problem with its charge. Sometimes when I charge it it gets really hot, but still goes to a hundred percent. But once I unplug it it changes to a lower number like 30%, then 100%, then stays at another value like 65%. anyone else have similar problems? or solution. Im using sonic R6 with trinity. Never had issues prior.
Edit: the battery is losing its charge really fast, meaning the percentage is dropping quickily
Get a new battery and try a different charger make sure you train your new battery for a couple of days
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I've had the phone for a month already, only now the problem pops up.
Have you installed any new apps, changed any settings, flashed roms radios or kernels, recently?
Have you used anything other than the charger AND cable that came with the phone?
Pull the battery. Do you see any bulges, pits or blemishes? Rub your fingers across it to feel for this stuff too. (You will feel some inconsistencies, but shouldn't be any major ones).
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So here's my problem:
About few weeks ago, my battery started to fooling with me. When I use it for Facebook, Twitter and normal web surfing, the battery goes down, fast, from 100% to 10% took only about one hour plus. Then I left it aside. Check it again after 30 minutes, the battery went up to 27%. So I think battery was miscalibrated so I tried to calibrate the battery using all the guides I can find on the net for weeks but none worked.
So what should I do? Should I change a new battery?
Did u try calibrate it properly, eg.. wait till its charged fully then wipe them. using an app from playstore is the best way. If u wipe stats when its not charged100% then it will start jumping percentages.
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Standard batteries are terrible anyway. I couldn't do without my 3600mah one now.
As wedgess said, get an app for calibration. I use 'battery calibration' (simple enough) which works perfectly for me
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wedgess said:
Did u try calibrate it properly, eg.. wait till its charged fully then wipe them. using an app from playstore is the best way. If u wipe stats when its not charged100% then it will start jumping percentages.
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Yeah I waited till 100% then I wipe the stats but still the same.
BensJammin said:
Standard batteries are terrible anyway. I couldn't do without my 3600mah one now.
As wedgess said, get an app for calibration. I use 'battery calibration' (simple enough) which works perfectly for me
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I don't plan to get new battery yet if my battery can be saved.
here you go
jeff7424 said:
So here's my problem:
About few weeks ago, my battery started to fooling with me. When I use it for Facebook, Twitter and normal web surfing, the battery goes down, fast, from 100% to 10% took only about one hour plus. Then I left it aside. Check it again after 30 minutes, the battery went up to 27%. So I think battery was miscalibrated so I tried to calibrate the battery using all the guides I can find on the net for weeks but none worked.
So what should I do? Should I change a new battery?
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PROBLEM SOLVED... this works with all xperia play models and it fits with the back cover that comes with the phone...O and it comes with the instruction on how to change the battery build prop.
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.co...xperia-x1-1800mah-extra-eros-akkumulator.html
Which means I'll need to get a new battery? No other way to save it?
Well try to underclock it and make the screen brightness lowest. Try to look at the battery stats too as you may have an app which is using a lot of resources of your phone. If you can live without your phone then switch it off completely, try to find the charger with highest mAh output (the higher the mAh output is the quicker it is charging), connect your turned off phone to the charger, make sure it's charging, leave it for 2 days charging like this and then disconnect it, boot it straight to the recovery, wipe the battery stats from recovery. If this is not going to help then I seriously have no idea what else you can do.
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olokos said:
Well try to underclock it and make the screen brightness lowest. Try to look at the battery stats too as you may have an app which is using a lot of resources of your phone. If you can live without your phone then switch it off completely, try to find the charger with highest mAh output (the higher the mAh output is the quicker it is charging), connect your turned off phone to the charger, make sure it's charging, leave it for 2 days charging like this and then disconnect it, boot it straight to the recovery, wipe the battery stats from recovery. If this is not going to help then I seriously have no idea what else you can do.
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Phone's not overclocked, brightness is always low, I used it for texting my gf for whole day, played word search for a while and my phone left 50%, no data no WiFi nothing, When I turned on WiFi and keep using it, battery drops fast. Reached 4% I left it, went back to 16%, continue using, left 4 % again, left it again went back to 10%, then I used it till 4% again, now left 6%. Using stock charger but with different cable since my stock cable is broken. Is that related? If yes I'm going to get a new charger.
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Phone's not overclocked, brightness is always low, I used it for texting my gf for whole day, played word search for a while and my phone left 50%, no data no WiFi nothing, When I turned on WiFi and keep using it, battery drops fast. Reached 4% I left it, went back to 16%, continue using, left 4 % again, left it again went back to 10%, then I used it till 4% again, now left 6%. Using stock charger but with different cable since my stock cable is broken. Is that related? If yes I'm going to get a new charger.
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Your best jut getting a new battery by the sounds of it I had a similar problem buy just got a new battery and it fixed it
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ILikeTheWayYouMove2 said:
Your best jut getting a new battery by the sounds of it I had a similar problem buy just got a new battery and it fixed it
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Sigh okay. Thanks everyone.
Odp: [Q] Battery Issue
Any news?
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Hi All,
So recently I have been having problems with my battery life. It's not lasting as long as it should. However, I do not know whether or not its my data cable, the device that plugs into the wall, my battery, or the charging port in my phone.
I got my phone from best buy, but it was more than 30 days ago, and I have no insurance on it, so I cannot get a replacement without sending it away for at least $100.
Any tips?
Well what battery life are you getting? Get into the Phone settings and then battery settings and post a snapshot of the graph here. Additionally you can also install Batterystat it will give you a full analysis of what's using up your battery power.
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bushako said:
Well what battery life are you getting? Get into the Phone settings and then battery settings and post a snapshot of the graph here. Additionally you can also install Batterystat it will give you a full analysis of what's using up your battery power.
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I think I may have narrowed it down to the battery itself? I have some battery apps that tell me the health is "good," but what does that really mean? My charging cable is iffy, because sometimes it works perfectly, charging to 100 just fine. However, other times it charges 20 percent in 9 hours. When I used my friend's Note II charger, it worked perfectly every-time. But the fact of the matter is, when my phone does charge to 100 from my cable, I still get not the best battery life, which leads me to believe it's my battery's fault. I am going to test out charging my phone to 100% with my friend's cable tonight, and see what happens tomorrow. I will also get batterystat and report back.
Also, this may be important. When I first got my phone, battery life was AMAZING, really quite astounding. It's just kind of dropped down, like a slope. Not a sudden, dramatic drop, but incrementally.
As for the battery info below, here is what went on today. I unplugged my phone from 100% at around 7am. It is now 6pm. Today, my phone was barely used, just sitting in my pocket with wi-fi on. When I did use it, I sent two very quick emails, played scramble with friends for about 45 minutes total, took a few photos, listened to music from the music player for about 15 minutes, and that is really all I did. I feel that my percentage should be much higher than what it is listed as.
Here's mine as you can see I'm getting almost twice your battery life. I have a few apps that i use everyday which are basically whatsapp, xda, chrome. I don't have many apps that would wake the phone constantly and if there is then I disable them from starting up when the phone is not in use. The best tool you can use for something like this would be rom toolbox pro. It's multiple system tools in one and it works great. I'm currently on Omega V10 with perseus kernel. Also I don't connect to wifi much and network here is weak and on 2G but even though I still get this battery life. In areas with good signal I get more battery life. Also I've dropped my phone twice with impact points on the corner, and just minor scuffs but that didn't effect the phones performance or battery life so I doubt it has affected yours.
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Also I've overclocked, my processor to 1.8ghz and undervolted between - 50 and -100. So i get minimal power wastage from heat build up. Also you can set a black wall paper with a dark theme.
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bushako said:
Also I've overclocked, my processor to 1.8ghz and undervolted between - 50 and -100. So i get minimal power wastage from heat build up. Also you can set a black wall paper with a dark theme.
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Unfortunately, I am not rooted, and haven't planned on doing so ever. Is there anything else I can do to fix my problem? I did download batterystats, and am waiting a few days though to see what it tells me.
Also, I used a different charger just to see what would happen today, and even though its been off the charger for 2 hours, it's already down to 94 percent. So I am thinking that there is either something wrong with the battery, the charging port, or could there be a bug in the phone's software?
I am thinking of getting a new battery, and seeing if that fixes my problem. I'm just so irritated because battery life used to be amazing, and I don't know what happened.
Maybe try a factory reset. Maybe something else has been using your battery.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Maybe try a factory reset. Maybe something else has been using your battery.
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That's what I was thinking. I will probably do that and report back, before going out and buying a battery or something. Is it possible that, although not reported in the battery info, that an app could be rogue or something or taking up battery? I don't want to do a factory reset and redownload a bad app.
Update: I tried a factory reset. It seems to either be worse or just the same. It's been an hour and has dropped to 97 percent, but I have made a couple of phone calls. But compared to before I did a factory reset, it dropped to 96 percent in two hours while not doing anything.
Keep your phone on charging over night.
Then let it drain to zero no matter what.
Do this 3 to 4 times and then
Leave it for charging overnight.
Then while it is already charging use battery calibration.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Keep your phone on charging over night.
Then let it drain to zero no matter what.
Do this 3 to 4 times and then
Leave it for charging overnight.
Then while it is already charging use battery calibration.
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Quick Update:
I did another factory reset after I said the initial one didn't help. It looks like it may have helped, although I still have not gotten the battery life I used to have.
I found an application here called betterybatterystats, and have downloaded that. I will use my phone throughout today, and will post sceenshots.
If need be, I will take your advice about charging and draining and charging, and then do the battery calibration.
Here are my most reset battery stats. Screenshots are from the battery setting area, and betterbatterystats
Maybe I am just being paranoid and nothing is wrong? I can't make any sense out of these readings, but I hope someone else can.
first of all change you cable if you are having that kind of issues. Mine in my galaxy ace was having that problem, it was like connect/disconnect without any reason and it didnt charged my phone at all. I noticed it when it was too late, the continous on/off kill my battery. When I say kill i mean it just lasts 15 min in 3g with screen on and it happened to me in 2 official batteries.
good luck!
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Hi all,
My SGS3 suddenly since last night has not been able to recharge, battery critically low. I have tried a few chargers, and rebooted several times.
Can a battery go bad this fast, because looks like it was charging and running fine the day before.
Thanks
Heeter
Heeter said:
Hi all,
My SGS3 suddenly since last night has not been able to recharge, battery critically low. I have tried a few chargers, and rebooted several times.
Can a battery go bad this fast, because looks like it was charging and running fine the day before.
Thanks
Heeter
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Have you tried loading a stock ROM on there just to be sure it's not software causing harm to your battery? Not sure if your provider will warranty your battery if it is indeed your battery.
Good luck!
Hi, thanks for your response
It actually is stock rom, sorry forgot to mention it. It is rooted, but I never replaced the rom, just put in CWM recovery. I just moved from rogers to virgin mobile last night, just changed sim card. But the multiple reboots killed a maybe already weak battery?
Thanks
Heeter
You should download and install better battery stats, it may help you find out if its being kept awake and draining quickly that way
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Thanks for your response, necrowakker.
I guess that I forgot to mention as well that the phone was shut off during a recharge, and upon powering up, it still it complaining to plug it into a wall charger.
Like it was never plugged in.
Heeter
When you rooted your phone was the kernel changed? .. I've had experience with some custom kernels not reading the battery correctly when off, and only after switching it on it still States its low til a little while later it actually looks like its charging .. ( like the battery level goes up over time) while being off the charger.
If thats not the case, try charging your phone again, but while its on after you know its definitely discharged and not just a ROM memory issue. If you turn it off to keep from getting calls during the night switch on airplane mode to keep that from happening. And check if your battery does on fact charge correctly. ...
After 3 full charges and discharges your battery still gives you bother. Then you can either look into what process it was when you rooted,
if it did change anything more than just giving you more access, or see about a hardware replacement, if it is under warranty, and you can take the flash counter back down to zero (if it counted up) and unroot it.
Also using unsupported chargers over the recommended charge rate for your phone, could have done it damage but that's a long shot with today's safety measures on phones.
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Don't forget to install better battery stats too, just for checking and reporting. Stable ROMs should be able to handle over 300 hours up time before needing a reboot. So using airplane mode should not bother your phone too much
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Thanks for all that info.
The phone has been rooted for at least 6 months now. It has been running very good until this morning. No kernel was changed for the rooting. I just wanted titanium backup to work.
I am still presuming that maybe the battery was weak, and when I was changing out the sim card of the service providers, I did reboot about 15 - 20 times to try to get all the services running, maybe that was enough to kill a battery.
Heeter
I've don't some silly **** with powering and charging and pulling batteries for every reason, I can't see Samsung giving you a bad battery if its worked fine for 6 months, you'd probably know within the first 6 weeks if it was faulty. ...
It may easily be a software memory issue with the battery that's confused it. If you are using cwm as a recovery it may have the erase battery stats option on it, if so give it go,
charge your battery to 100, allow it to drop to zero, or til it shuts down, plug in, power it on allow to boot, and leave to charge to 100,
once that full discharge and recharge is done, your battery has its full stats. If it gives you hassle after this point, think about buying a registered Samsung replacement for your phone.
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Great, thanks will try that.
Heeter