I never had that much of a problem with the battery on my Desire Z. Okay, I had to charge it sometime during the day when I was browsing the web or playing for a few hours but then, that was expected.
Forward last week, where I decided to try Mimicry rom (I'm not pointing any fingers there, keep reading). Everything was going smooth except one thing, the battery was draining at least.. twice as fast as usual. I'm speaking deplugging at 7 AM, dead at 12:30 PM. And that's with practically no usage. At this point, I've tried rebooting, and, oddly, it wouldn't do the same thing as usual (not opening or opening briefly to the loading screen then closing). No, it would boot to the launcher, show me that I had 2% left. It's usually at those points that I've been able to take a screenshot.
Then, a few moments ago, if I kept rebooting. It would be back at say 36%, but kept hard dying (no "Android is shutting down" or stuff like that, just BAM, black screen) every 5 minutes.
Thinking that Mimicry would be the culprit, I went over there and asked the question, but, oddly enough, nothing in the rom could produce this effect. Weird. He was kind enough to give me some tips to try to see if it would make any difference. I've tried them.. Several time with the battery stat reset, deactivate the Google Backup in case it was in a loop. I've reflashed the rom, downgraded to the earlier version, updated to the latest. No use.
So at that point, Andromadus Beta 5 was out and decided to go back at Andromadus. At first, no problem but finally, it came back. So the culprit is not the rom, or maybe yes, I don't actually know. Today was the day I could use it the longest but.. It's unbearable. Also, I've looked into 4EXT at the battery indicator and it seems to be ****ed up too. I tried to force drain the battery with continuous permission fixing and the battery would drain from 3% to 0% in under 2 minutes, but would stay at 0% for a while.
So, what do? New battery because this one is bricked? New phone, because at the price of the battery... Or is there a way where I don't have to take my wallet out?
Thanks in advance.
Here are some screenshot I took
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Seems like no screenshot shows up on there. here's an imgur album
imgur .com/a/j9seu#0
Reupload those screenshots nothing is showing, I'd suggest trying a new battery then if that doesn't work get a replacement device.
New photo upload, to see if it finally works.
Mimicy uses Andromadus source so they could share a piece of code which could falsely report battery information. I suggest, mainly as a test, take a nandroid backup. Then plug the phone in and let it charge until you get the green LED. Leave it plugged in for an extra hour or two just to make sure that your battery is at 100 percent. Then flash the Cyanogenmod ROM then reset the battery stats. Try using Cyanogenmod for a while and see if the phone is still doing the same thing. If it is, then it could be the battery. Also if you know someone with a G2, you can always swap batteries and see if the same issue happens. If it does maybe switch to a non-ICS ROM and if that doesn't work, your phone maybe going bonkers.
i think its kinda bricked, or you could buy a portable phone charger. that could help
synthiis said:
I never had that much of a problem with the battery on my Desire Z. Okay, I had to charge it sometime during the day when I was browsing the web or playing for a few hours but then, that was expected.
Forward last week, where I decided to try Mimicry rom (I'm not pointing any fingers there, keep reading). Everything was going smooth except one thing, the battery was draining at least.. twice as fast as usual. I'm speaking deplugging at 7 AM, dead at 12:30 PM. And that's with practically no usage. At this point, I've tried rebooting, and, oddly, it wouldn't do the same thing as usual (not opening or opening briefly to the loading screen then closing). No, it would boot to the launcher, show me that I had 2% left. It's usually at those points that I've been able to take a screenshot.
Then, a few moments ago, if I kept rebooting. It would be back at say 36%, but kept hard dying (no "Android is shutting down" or stuff like that, just BAM, black screen) every 5 minutes.
Thinking that Mimicry would be the culprit, I went over there and asked the question, but, oddly enough, nothing in the rom could produce this effect. Weird. He was kind enough to give me some tips to try to see if it would make any difference. I've tried them.. Several time with the battery stat reset, deactivate the Google Backup in case it was in a loop. I've reflashed the rom, downgraded to the earlier version, updated to the latest. No use.
So at that point, Andromadus Beta 5 was out and decided to go back at Andromadus. At first, no problem but finally, it came back. So the culprit is not the rom, or maybe yes, I don't actually know. Today was the day I could use it the longest but.. It's unbearable. Also, I've looked into 4EXT at the battery indicator and it seems to be ****ed up too. I tried to force drain the battery with continuous permission fixing and the battery would drain from 3% to 0% in under 2 minutes, but would stay at 0% for a while.
So, what do? New battery because this one is bricked? New phone, because at the price of the battery... Or is there a way where I don't have to take my wallet out?
Thanks in advance.
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hi there..same problem with me too..exactly..my battery couldn't last for more than 4 hours with minimum usage...have u solved it?
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Hi, my cousin's arc is acting weird. It doesn't happen all the time so it is hard for me know what is exactly wrong.
1) When the battery was at 40%, the phone shuts down. This happened once when I was playing with it and I thought maybe I mistaken 4% for 40.
Then a few days later.
2) My cousin noticed the battery was at 40%, he left the phone in his pocket and it shuts down. So now I think last time when I was playing with it, it wasn't a mistake.
Then when the phone is pluged in, it will be low on battery e.g. 4 percent. He doesn't use the phone a lot so it should last a day or two before it need to be charged again from fully charged. But the phone just shut down at 40percent today.
So now it is hard for me to know what is wrong with it. Is it due to battery being defected? Problem with the phone itself? Or might be some apps that caused the problem?
It is running on 2.3.3 Rogers firmware. Stock, not rooted etc. He had the phone for a week and it happened 2-3 times already.
Thanks.
You could try repairing it via SEUS but you will lose all data. Make a back up.
It could be that the phone has stored incorrect limits for the battery - a factory reset should solve this.
However, it seems more likely to me that the battery is faulty.
Thanks for these suggestions. I have searched the forum quite a bit last night and there were a few others looked like the problem I am having. So going to try out those methods first. Then the suggestions in this thread.
Has he tried running the phone flat, then take out the battery and charge it with the phone off till completion. Mine used to shutdown anytime after 20% ; after doing this it never has again. Shot in the dark ... worth the effort.
Any update??
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Thanks for these suggestions. I have searched the forum quite a bit last night and there were a few others looked like the problem I am having. So going to try out those methods first. Then the suggestions in this thread.
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Was the issue resolved? What all things did you try?
Nope, the best I got is 20% then to 1% then shutdown. It is in repair centre now.
I have tried repairing, reflashing, battery widget etc, everything I can find on xda and it didn't work.
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It came back from the repair center and did not get repaired, it was phone being sent only. It still had the problem.
Then sent it again (good thing it is just 20 mins drive on highway) and left the phone and battery there.
Now got phone back, battery is replaced (since I think it was battery being faulty). Now it is at 29% percent and looking good.
I will update this thread if I got more. I am leaving this thread here so others who have this problem and tried all the suggested methods on xda and failed, it means that your battery is faulty!
My phone has been acting weird lately. Just want to see what the consensus is. phone battery drains ok until I turn on A gps program will be about 90% battery gps will be on for about 5 minutes the phone shuts off restart and battery reads 40%. Then the phone keeps dying. Any thoughts im assuming its the battery but you all might know something i dont.
P.s. The phone is stock rom tilt 2
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That sounds like battery to me, but that doesn't mean there isn't also an issue with the phone...
If any of your buddies has an EVO or another TP2 (I can't remember what other batteries would work right now...) that you could try in your phone to rule that out?
If not, batteries aren't that expensive. I wouldn't go for the absolute cheapest on ebay either, find something that's got a brand name...
Thank you, a quick add on as to why it may not be the battery. I could'nt type it all out earlier because I was on my gfs phone.
I was away from a charger so just left it off for about 4 hours. Started it out of habit now its showing 80% after no charging. I also didn't mention Ive done a hard reset on it still get the same issue, everything is fine wi-fi for extended periods talking texting but as soon as I use gps it shuts down in about 3 minutes.
This is also a new issue and I have not recently added anything to my phone.
Edit: Update again tried to make a call and it died.. Ill take the suggestions and get a new batt.
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Thank you, a quick add on as to why it may not be the battery. I could'nt type it all out earlier because I was on my gfs phone.
I was away from a charger so just left it off for about 4 hours. Started it out of habit now its showing 80% after no charging. I also didn't mention Ive done a hard reset on it still get the same issue, everything is fine wi-fi for extended periods talking texting but as soon as I use gps it shuts down in about 3 minutes.
This is also a new issue and I have not recently added anything to my phone.
Edit: Update again tried to make a call and it died.. Ill take the suggestions and get a new batt.
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You could also try a hard reset, flash a different ROM, etc.
Thanks for keeping on the thread, Tried the hard reset, the rom is what came with the phone never done a different one
New Battery is on the way. Something is screwy with it but we shall see.. If its not the battery I suppose Ill need to start looking for a replacement or an upgrade. Thank you for your input on the subject.
stock rooted rom
using stock everything except i added wifi tether and adblock
android version: 4.0.4
i have not taken any ota's
about 2 weeks ago i was trying to take a picture at mostly dark place, as soon as the led flashed the phone appeared to shut off, but it wouldn't turn back on.i eventually pulled the battery and was able to get phone to boot like normal. again i tried to take another pic and got the same results about 4 or 5 times. i noticed the problem seemed to be tied to using the led flash while taking a pic.
later on in the night i tried again about another 5 times to take a pic with flash and it rebooted each attempt
if i turn flash off camera worked fine.
my battery was around 17% at this time that the above happened, could have been using a generic battery
so the next day i thought i would take it to best buy for a return but i thought about how it may be easier to do a factory reset while on the road. immediately after resetting it i tried the camera with flash and it worked fine, so i went back home
after getting back home i tried to take another pic with flash and it rebooted again. wtf?
i noticed again that my battery is around 18%, i have 4 batteries and i was on the road the week end i was having trouble with flash.
below is was one of my theories: maybe a generic battery was reporting 15-20% but maybe it didn't actually have enough power to use flash and it caused some sort of power issue with the phone.
i dont think its shutting it off completely btw,
i assumed it was the battery reporting correct info and causing a under power issue so i thought the case was almost solved.
11.26.12 130am i have new info that contradicts the above theory: tonight i was attempting to take another pic with flash and
sure enough it shut off. i pulled battery and powered it back on and the battery just happen to be in that 17% range again.
i swapped the battery out with a fresh battery that reported to be 94% and i attempted to take another picture with flash and once again phone turned off.
so i rebooted and went into the camera app and hit the reset option for the camera and the symptom stopped
i changed the default storage back to external sd which is where i normally have it set and took another pic and camera with flash still worked
the pattern for the battery being in the teens when this happens could be an issue, but i want it clear that my batteries last a full day and then some every day.
i have googled this and i have come up with very little related leads, has anyone heard of this?
ok well i think i found the issue:
it was the battery.
i have four batteries and i marked the one that was suspected as being the problem
i put each battery in and all functioned as they should except the one i thought was a problem
the funny thing is that i just put it on the charger about 20 mins ago and it charged about 1% per minute wich seems suspect in itself.
out with the junk battery, thanks again ebay
Recently I posted about a problem others had as well - when under 50% ish battery, my HTC 10 would randomly reboot, and that would loop until it was plugged in.
Once plugged in and fully rebooted, the battery % reading would vary from where it was before to 1%. Also, certain apps' data or cache would be deleted. I would open, Macrodroid, for example, and it acts like it's the first time being opened after installation.
This has been exhausting, having to constantly be charging, staying above 60% - and even then it still happening. After it does, the apps whose data was cleared varied, and I wouldn't always know until I opened each.
So after this I dropped it and cracked the screen. I have fixed all of my HTCs before with various problems - M8, M7, DNA, Incredible, Max - so I decided to put in a new battery to hopefully fix the bootloop problem.
After watching a few disassembly videos, it seemed best to replace the screen when I opened it for the battery. So I ordered a screen, and waited more, constantly charging, restoring data to apps like Macrodroid and initializing apps all over again.
I finally have the new battery and screen. I have a few hours. I get out all my tools.
A few hours later, I have put it back together. It's like Medusa inside this thing! I was really being risky doing this last night, because I have a ton of work to do today, yet here I am typing this on my backup nexus 5x - so slow!
So the result? Success for the screen replacement, and the battery as well. But, now, it is bootlooping still! I plug it in, and two things:
Plugging it in does not stop the bootloop.
The charging LED does not light up.
So I am hoping someone may have some insight as to what I may not have connected properly. I can post pictures later, I'm not home right now.
I looked and looked and looked and cannot find where I went wrong. I am going to take it apart and put it back together if I can't find the error. Any ideas? Any other places I should post this?
I guess when I get home, assuming it has completely drained itself, I can plug it in, and see if it gets a charge, and if the LED illuminates. I am thinking: charging port is not properly connected back + the new battery did not fix the bootloop / battery issue.
Thoughts?
Bootloops/shutdowns are going to corrupt your data. I would RUU the thing before looking for hardware trouble, which you've likely sorted out by replacing the battery (of course, we're assuming the new battery is good).
BUT before that, is there a memory test in the bootloader or recovery? If so, I would run that very first thing.
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Recently I posted about a problem others had as well - when under 50% ish battery, my HTC 10 would randomly reboot, and that would loop until it was plugged in.
Once plugged in and fully rebooted, the battery % reading would vary from where it was before to 1%. Also, certain apps' data or cache would be deleted. I would open, Macrodroid, for example, and it acts like it's the first time being opened after installation.
This has been exhausting, having to constantly be charging, staying above 60% - and even then it still happening. After it does, the apps whose data was cleared varied, and I wouldn't always know until I opened each.
So after this I dropped it and cracked the screen. I have fixed all of my HTCs before with various problems - M8, M7, DNA, Incredible, Max - so I decided to put in a new battery to hopefully fix the bootloop problem.
After watching a few disassembly videos, it seemed best to replace the screen when I opened it for the battery. So I ordered a screen, and waited more, constantly charging, restoring data to apps like Macrodroid and initializing apps all over again.
I finally have the new battery and screen. I have a few hours. I get out all my tools.
A few hours later, I have put it back together. It's like Medusa inside this thing! I was really being risky doing this last night, because I have a ton of work to do today, yet here I am typing this on my backup nexus 5x - so slow!
So the result? Success for the screen replacement, and the battery as well. But, now, it is bootlooping still! I plug it in, and two things:
Plugging it in does not stop the bootloop.
The charging LED does not light up.
So I am hoping someone may have some insight as to what I may not have connected properly. I can post pictures later, I'm not home right now.
I looked and looked and looked and cannot find where I went wrong. I am going to take it apart and put it back together if I can't find the error. Any ideas? Any other places I should post this?
I guess when I get home, assuming it has completely drained itself, I can plug it in, and see if it gets a charge, and if the LED illuminates. I am thinking: charging port is not properly connected back + the new battery did not fix the bootloop / battery issue.
Thoughts?
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Whatever happened to your phone? I have the exact same problem. Infinite boot loop, no illuminated LED, and no way of getting into recovery or anything else with it bootlooping. It occurred after I made the mistake of trying to restart it at 25%. I have the new battery and screen. i'm going to attempt to open this Pandora's box. Seriously going to have to turn my back on HTC. The 10 is so full of software issue problems regarding the batteries that they never bothered to address.
I did the exact same thing a few days ago and my phone won't charge or boot, but I do think the problem is with the button strip, that's what i think, because i tried turning it on before re assembling it and it did turn on successfully and was charging normally but when i re Assemble it, the phone got this problem, now i think when i turned it on before assembling i pressed the power button with a screw driver because i couldn't press it with my fingers, I think there i messed it up, any advice how to fix the button strip and remove a slip nut would be very much appreciated
I had the exact same issue as you(shutting down at 50%), have you found any solution to it?
edit: I THINK clean flashing oreo firmware then latest RUU then twrp then lineage fixed my issue, charging to full rn will drain it over the next day and report back if its gone for good
Hi,
I bought M8 because I liked good old M7 so much.
So that phone and it's battery are quite new, about a two months old. But I'm bit pissed because there's that same damn battery problem that we have with M7. Phone shutdowns suddenly with random % while batt is below 40% or below 30%.
After that when I restart the phone it shows there's only 2% left. So something with batt calibration is badly wrong.
I've read about it and internet is full of complains and questions but there's no working solution.
So my question is, have anybody found why it's doing that and is there any solution/fix that REALLY works? Or is everybody just living with that fact that HTC only allows to use 60% of phone's battery?
Now it's bit frustrating to use the phone because SOT is at most 2.5h even with light use and if gaming.. well you got the point.
Phone is fully unlocked and rooted with newest twrp. I have had stock MM rom, RR oreo rom, XenonHD oreo rom, ICE 8.2.2 MM rom and now I'll have AOKP nougat rom but same thing with all roms with couple weeks test period so it's not rom depending.
I have searched this forum, other forums etc and tried to find solution.
I have tested official two minutes power+up+down and also that alternative "at least six restarts with power+up+down and then use it empty" - method without any help.
I have tried wiping caches and I have flashed rom/did factory reset while batt is 100%.
I have drained the phone from 100% to as low as it goes(and shutdowns) and then charged back to 100% with phone on and also with phone off.
I have also tried that while it shows it's 100% wait till it drops to 99%, then shutdown the phone and charge again to 100% (because while I plug charger again it shows something between 90% and 99% while shutdown).
I also tried some batt calibration tool from market even I don't believe on them and read that google worker story about these calibrations.
But about that question, any solution? Any help? Anything else to try? It's very good phone and pity there's that problem in such a good phone. But I just don't believe it's faulty battery because it's so common problem.
Flashing a ROM with the default wipe (data, cache, Dalvik) will normally wipe battery stats and recalibrate the battery meter, in my experience. Then reset the high/low flags by charging to 100%, then drain to close to shutdown (10-20%) and that should be it. Intentionally draining to shutdown is not advised nor necessary. But in your case, may be unavoidable as it may be shutting down even as you try to get "close".
The button combo (power+vol up+vol down) to recalibrate the meter doesn't hurt either. But it looks like you've tried all these things, to no avail.
Make sure your firmware is up to date (MM). But I'm guessing that is already the case, as you probably wouldn't able to flash or run the ROMs mentioned, with outdated firmware.
Only other thing I can think, is to flash stock RUU (if your version has one) to return to full "factory" baseline and start over again (then TWRP, ROM of your choice, etc.). But I don't suspect this will help much over what you've already tried. More of a "doesn't hurt to try" suggestion, as long as you have to time/energy to do so.
Thanks for your reply. Stock rom is MM so I think firmware etc should be fine.
And yes, think I've tried almost "everything" but now after I've tested few weeks I noticed something. It seems it's maybe somehow kernel thing. Not sure but if I use stock MM rom batt works just fine. If I use Revolution HD 53.1 MM rom with stock base(?) kernel, batt works quite fine. But right after I flash elementalX to those or use some other MM/Nougat/Oreo rom with other than stock base kernel batt shut down randomly below 40% and shows wrong %. Weird. I think I just stick with Revolution HD and stock kernel since it seems to work and is much better than stock rom.
Mine sometimes shutdown @60
I jst got another one 2days ago
So I sud be expecting same problem?
I noticed this problem after I flashed RR ROM last December, maybe I sud nt use custom ROM @All on this new one
But I am in love wit lineage 16 ROM
Advice pls
I had the same problem over a year ago. Phone would randomly die once the battery went below 30%. I tried every piece of battery recalibration voodoo posted on this and other sites –including ones that were supposedly official HTC recommended ones.
Nothing worked.
In the end, I bought a replacement battery off eBay and fitted it. I think it was about £17 and I haven't had any random shutdowns since. My battery can run right down to 1% now without the phone switching off. I think, at the end of the day, a new battery is the only solution
BTW –the battery I bought looked OEM. Same markings, holograms, etc. But was a fraction of a mm thicker than the old one, so that it was quite a squeeze fitting the phone back together again and I've still got a slight ridge around the edge of the screen where it's not quite sitting flush with the backplate. But, given the HTC One M8 isn't designed to be taken apart in the first place and I pretty much mangled the speaker covers trying to persuade them to come off, using a hot air gun, that's just one more minor cosmetic detail. My phone may look like it's done a couple of rounds with Mike Tyson now. But for £17 it's been given a new lease of life and [hopefully] I'll get another couple of years out of it.