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Ok so I'm running cyanogen mod nightlies(September update) coupled with tiamat 4.0.7 + SBC. My battery regularly overheard while charging or when my screen stays on or using certain apps suck as angry birds, music, gameboid, snesoid, etc. Any ideas why it may be doing this and how it could be fixed? I've also run the cyanogen kernel and the regular 4.0.7 tiamat kernel. I've run decks roms, synergy equipped with the freedom kernels, and salvage-mod. Every configuration I use, I have the same problem. My battery hasn't been exposed to the extreme heat of the summer and its always charging in a cool place. I'm using the original HTC charger that came with the phone. Help would definitely be appreciated because its killing my battery. Thanks guys.
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Ok so I'm running cyanogen mod nightlies(September update) coupled with tiamat 4.0.7 + SBC. My battery regularly overheard while charging or when my screen stays on or using certain apps suck as angry birds, music, gameboid, snesoid, etc. Any ideas why it may be doing this and how it could be fixed? I've also run the cyanogen kernel and the regular 4.0.7 tiamat kernel. I've run decks roms, synergy equipped with the freedom kernels, and salvage-mod. Every configuration I use, I have the same problem. My battery hasn't been exposed to the extreme heat of the summer and its always charging in a cool place. I'm using the original HTC charger that came with the phone. Help would definitely be appreciated because its killing my battery. Thanks guys.
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Are you overclocked?
Nope underclocked. Running smart-ass settings underclocked to 128 and Max is 768. Still hasn't solved the problem.
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hawke591 said:
Nope underclocked. Running smart-ass settings underclocked to 128 and Max is 768. Still hasn't solved the problem.
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So it does it, even when it's not on the charger?
You may have a bad battery or a malfunctioning phone.
It does this all the time. Right now spare parts says its at 43.8°C but before i plugged it up i left it off for 20 mins and turned it on and it was at the regular 36°C. I'm hoping its not the phone. And this was a replacement battery I received from the sprint store after my last battery drained within 2 hrs on a daily basis. I've tried calibration and it doesn't help. Battery life is slowly degrading as well.
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SBC kernels may overheat your phone.
Try a diffrent no-sbc kernel.
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It does this all the time. Right now spare parts says its at 43.8°C but before i plugged it up i left it off for 20 mins and turned it on and it was at the regular 36°C. I'm hoping its not the phone. And this was a replacement battery I received from the sprint store after my last battery drained within 2 he's on a daily basis. I've tried calibration and it doesn't help. Battery life is slowly degrading as well.
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Try returning the phone to complete stock.
If it continues to do it then you're gonna have to take it in.
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Try returning the phone to complete stock.
If it continues to do it then you're gonna have to take it in.
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I've tried without SBC. It does it either way. Read first post completely please. I left every detail I could give including the different configurations I've used.
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Well only problem with that is the fact that it did the same thing stock I got my replacement battery before I ever rooted my phone. So ill revert to stock and take it in for them to run a diagnostics test on it. Just gotta find the right location.
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hawke591 said:
Well only problem with that is the fact that it did the same thing stock I got my replacement battery before I ever rooted my phone. So ill revert to stock and take it in for them to run a diagnostics test on it. Just gotta find the right location.
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Well it sounds like either the replacement battery is bad, the charger is bad [causing the battery to be bad] or the phone itself has a problem.
Could be the charger. Half the time it registers as a USB charger but its the AC outlet charger and when it does switch over to AC it becomes even more prone to overheating. I know that when the battery overheats it can cause internal damage to the phone if it gets hot enough. Hope it hasn't done that yet.
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To unroot the unrevoked 3 method I just run the newest up to date official RUU right?
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hawke591 said:
To unroot the unrevoked 3 method I just run the newest up to date official RUU right?
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Flash this in your recovery:
http://downloads.unrevoked.com/forever/current/unrevoked-forever-son.zip
Rename this file PC36IMG.zip, put it on your SDCARD, go into your bootloader and accept the update.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MUSAURP7
Ok in that order or should s-on come last?
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Hence this is my first time un-rooting so I'm just being safe so I don't brick it.
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Ok in that order or should s-on come last?
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S-on first.
Ok thanks. You're the main one that's helped with my questions and I really appreciate it man. I've learned a lot thanks to you and the devs here at xda.
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Ok thanks. You're the main one that's helped with my questions and I really appreciate it man. I've learned a lot thanks to you and the devs here at xda.
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You are welcome, good luck.
Thanks. And I saw you're running the same setup as I am at the moment except you aren't using SBC. What's your average battery stats?
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I bought a extended battery awhile ago for my samsung fascinate. It worked great and charged just fine. Now when I try to use it in my samsung epic it works but will not charge at all says its charging for a second then stops. Any ideas. I tried google but nobody has said how they got them to work.
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It should work with no problem. Sounds like it went bad.
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It seems like it didn't. I can pop it in my fascinate and it will charge fine
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beezie42 said:
It seems like it didn't. I can pop it in my fascinate and it will charge fine
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Supposed to be the same battery. Are the fingers in your phone bent any? Are you using the same charger for both?
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Ya I checked that the prongs were all lined up and everything. If I charge it in my fassy and put it in my epic it will work fine but it won't charge. I used the same charger and then a couple different ones but still no luck
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Does your stock battery still charge OK?
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Yes my stock still charges just fine
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I am at a loss at this point. I wonder if clearing your battery stats would help any. Are you rooted with CWM?
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Try in CWM
I wonder if you get a charging at all when the power is off? also what does it say if you are in CMW when you look it up? If that doesnt work maybe try resetting the statistics I dont think that will do anything but it might reset something we dont know that is happening in that smart battery.
Yes I'm rooted I have the latest cwm. I'm starting to wonder if its my kernal. I'm running the samuri kernal which is up to date. Eh mabey my epic just hates extended batterys. I haven't had a chance to check it threw cwm ill give that a try when I get off work in a few hours.
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Yes I'm rooted I have the latest cwm. I'm starting to wonder if its my kernal. I'm running the samuri kernal which is up to date. Eh mabey my epic just hates extended batterys. I haven't had a chance to check it threw cwm ill give that a try when I get off work in a few hours.
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Put in the battery fully charged and boot directly into CWM and go to advanced and clear battery stats.
Well I tried clearing the battery stats and still nothing. It just discharges. I look in the about phone status and it says not charging. So I guess ill just try something else. Could it be the kernal mabey the samuri kernal does not support third party batteries.
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I have had various problems with my extended in various ROMS.
beezie42 said:
Well I tried clearing the battery stats and still nothing. It just discharges. I look in the about phone status and it says not charging. So I guess ill just try something else. Could it be the kernal mabey the samuri kernal does not support third party batteries.
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Backup and Odin EC05 stock and test. It is the only way to see if it is hardware or software.
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Backup and Odin EC05 stock and test. It is the only way to see if it is hardware or software.
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well i ordered a new extended battery from ebay 2 days ago im suppose to be getting it today it was 8 bucks i believe 3500 mVa or w.e but yeah i'll you how that works out =D
On my gfs epic she's running aokp build 4 She has had the battery since the phone first came out.. She routinely leaves it on the charger every night.. everything is turned off except for wifi in the settings and gtalk has been signed out off and I have tried everything to conserve battery from rootdim which didn't do anything to build.prop tweaks in omairs thread.. The phone doesn't last at most five hours screen on with an hour and a half screen on.. Is this normal or is it time to buy a new battery
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Maybe try odin to fc09 factory and see if it makes any difference. Best advice I can give you, is to leave a womans phone alone. Just trust me.
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Maybe try odin to fc09 factory and see if it makes any difference. Best advice I can give you, is to leave a womans phone alone. Just trust me.
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She loves it though, if you only knew her.. I didn't make the decision but thanks for the response
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Change the processor to conservation, and tell her to turn off mobile data when not in use.
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It is probably time to get yourself the SGS2's 1800mah battery. It fits in our original case, snug, but fits.
Before getting the battery, odin back to FC09, boot up and synch PRL and profile. Then odin CWM and flash the current AOKP build for Jelly Bean. Only restore SMS and/or call log from backups if you must. Doing those steps will ensure you have a clean install and anything affecting your battery will either be a rogue application or the battery itself.
Gotta be careful with the Gs2 battery. The Tmobile version doesn't fit our phone. I would play it safe and get the epic touch battery.
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On my gfs epic she's running aokp build 4 She has had the battery since the phone first came out.. She routinely leaves it on the charger every night.. everything is turned off except for wifi in the settings and gtalk has been signed out off and I have tried everything to conserve battery from rootdim which didn't do anything to build.prop tweaks in omairs thread.. The phone doesn't last at most five hours screen on with an hour and a half screen on.. Is this normal or is it time to buy a new battery
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Time for a new battery.... I can routinely get more than 3 hours screen on time (even with ics and jb roms)
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Time for a new battery.... I can routinely get more than 3 hours screen on time (even with ics and jb roms)
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I think that's the right the to do.. It's running in airplane mode too
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stevie13.xo said:
I think that's the right the to do.. It's running in airplane mode too
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Lol yep definitely time for a new battery then...
Ugh, its like a vicious circle.. "Girlfriend complains about battery, refuses to go back to stock/touchwiz"
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stevie13.xo said:
Ugh, its like a vicious circle.. "Girlfriend complains about battery, refuses to go back to stock/touchwiz"
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I know that feel lol.
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Since December I've been running CM10 on my GS-III with little to no issues. I flash CM 10.1 mid January and even though it was an unstable nightly it was very stable.
Flashing the nightlies as they became available with no issues at all.
Then today my phone starts slowing down and froze up.
Keep in mind that I hadn't flashed a nightly in like a day or 2 do I had been using the past nightly as a daily driver.
When my phone decided to freeze I rebooted it and it booted just fine.
About 2 minutes in the screen goes black. Holding the power button it's unresponsive.
Now my phone is completely unresponsive to all button presses. I've tried the 3 button combos for recovery and download mode with no luck. I've even held the buttons for a full minute but nothing is working.
Is my phone dead or is there a possibility of resurrecting it?
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Are you positive the battery hasn't died. That would be the first thing I would check. Even if it showed it was charging doesn't mean the battery is good. I'm not trying to be insulting either by asking this. I'm a equipment tech at a large semiconductor company and you wouldn't believe the number of times the fix was as simple as turning a breaker back on when another tech wanted to replace something major. #1 rule of troubleshooting: Is there power. #2 rule: Double check rule #1. Sounds silly, but it is the easiest thing to overlook. Good luck and I hope it's as simple as a battery.
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Are you positive the battery hasn't died. That would be the first thing I would check. Even if it showed it was charging doesn't mean the battery is good. I'm not trying to be insulting either by asking this. I'm a equipment tech at a large semiconductor company and you wouldn't believe the number of times the fix was as simple as turning a breaker back on when another tech wanted to replace something major. #1 rule of troubleshooting: Is there power. #2 rule: Double check rule #1. Sounds silly, but it is the easiest thing to overlook. Good luck and I hope it's as simple as a battery.
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No you're not insulting by asking that. I use to record music and when something wasn't wasn't working that's the first thing we asked and re asked.
Unfortunately I do believe I checked that out. When I plug in a charger it doesn't even show me a battery charging logo.
I have noticed that when I pull out the battery and connect the charger the led turns red.
I'll see if i can't swap batteries with one of my friends and see if that helps.
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Can adb on your pc detect your phone by any chance ? I do not want to scare you but hopefully your not having a motherboard failure or a sudden death :/
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Can adb on your pc detect your phone by any chance ? I do not want to scare you but hopefully your not having a motherboard failure or a sudden death :/
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I'm checking that right now
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Well unfortunately there's no response from adb or phone.
However the computer does make a usb device connected sound.
Not sure if that's just a standard sound from the computer or if the phone is triggering it.
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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This.
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Android_Monsters said:
Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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This.
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I have tried the 3 button combos for T-Mobiles variant of the GS-III with no luck either.... I even tried making a jig and didn't have much luck....
Next step is to buy a jig and see if that works
Thankfully I got a replacement GS-III from insurance. So I'm content... Also since I get to keep the other GS-III as well it feels even nicer.
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I have tried the 3 button combos for T-Mobiles variant of the GS-III with no luck either.... I even tried making a jig and didn't have much luck....
Next step is to buy a jig and see if that works
Thankfully I got a replacement GS-III from insurance. So I'm content... Also since I get to keep the other GS-III as well it feels even nicer.
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A usb jig should do it most of the time it do work and if it doesn't oh well you could sell it out for parts i guess ?
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You would probably make most of your back if you sold it for spare parts and may only have to pay $50 for a replacement. Good luck!
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I'm not sure I understand how a jig is going to help him when the phone won't turn on.
I would try another battery first. You said you were going to try this but I don't see where you confirmed that it wasn't the issue.
Hmm you could have ran into that now infamous mb crash and burn error although I'm not sure how since you were running aosp. Anyone else want to chime in?
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If the battery truly died plugging it in won't be any help
Try another battery, I'm betting that's the issue. T-Mobile will have one or two on hand in store so you can try
Hopefully I will be able to get my hands on a spare battery to test this with as soon as I'm off work.
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Yeah first of lets make sure its not the battery and the jig forces the phone to boot into download mode if im not mistaken.. It is intended for users having similar issues / unresponsive devices...
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Yeah first of lets make sure its not the battery and the jig forces the phone to boot into download mode if im not mistaken.. It is intended for users having similar issues / unresponsive devices...
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Well unfortunately the spare battery i used on my phone was no good in getting the phone to respond.
Now my next step is to attempt to hope that the jig will do something for my phone.
If not i guess that i will have a nice paper weight of luxury lol
Either that or i can sell it to someone.
So far those are the only options that i think i have at the moment.
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Flash STOCK or different ROM (Don't forget kernel too) think the issue is with the Cyanogenmod, mine did something similar, when screen went dark it took literally 5-10 Power button presses to wake the phone up, sometimes it wouldn't respond, other soft keys only would light up, Make backup, Wipe, install, check everything, that what I would do
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Flash STOCK or different ROM (Don't forget kernel too) think the issue is with the Cyanogenmod, mine did something similar, when screen went dark it took literally 5-10 Power button presses to wake the phone up, sometimes it wouldn't respond, other soft keys only would light up, Make backup, Wipe, install, check everything, that what I would do
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He cannot flash anything his phone doesn't answer to anything i don't see how he could do that..
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The phone is dead. My friend's gs3 died suddenly one day while I just happen to be using it. I plugged in an otg plug and few minutes later the screen just went black. I was sure it was dead when I plug in a charger and there was no sign of life from the phone.
I don't know if you have to pay a deductible but Samsung is supposedly replacing galaxy s3 for free because there is a known defect which cause the motherboard to go bad. My friend's was a Verizon model and they just replaced it free.
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It doesn't seem to matter what rom I'm on my phone randomly just shuts down about five times a day. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Thanks!
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What roms have you tried and what are you using now? You did a clean installation right? Factory reset, wipe cache, and dalvik cache?
What did you do before this happened?
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Yes I always do a clean install system wipe, factory reset, clear cache etc. I've used about every Rom I think... the only one I can remember not having this issue was darthstalker x1. Right now I'm on stockaroma version 2 and it happens all the time. I even odined back to stock and reflashed and it still happens. I like multi window a lot so I hate to go backwards.
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Have you tried to Odin back to stock and NOT flash a Rom?
If not, give it a shot and let us know.
Also, it could be your battery has finally given its last. If you don't know someone with an s3 go to a T-Mobile store and they should have one you can test with.
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Now that I think of it, I'd get the battery checked before flashing anything else.
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Yes when I was on stock it actually shut down during the first boot. I did notice that after flashing cyanogenmod 10.1 I charged it all night and it was at 100% charge but as soon as I unplugged it then it instantly dropped to like 10% that only happened once though. I guess maybe my battery it's jacked...
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Are they able to check batteries at T-Mobile? I'd hate to buy a new one they're pricy if that's the case I might as well pick up a gs4.
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They should have a known good one you can try. Plug it in and see if the reboots quit. No idea if they'd let you borrow it for a day, but I don't see why not.
If it dropped that quick though, I'm pretty confident that it's related.
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Yes when I was on stock it actually shut down during the first boot. I did notice that after flashing cyanogenmod 10.1 I charged it all night and it was at 100% charge but as soon as I unplugged it then it instantly dropped to like 10% that only happened once though. I guess maybe my battery it's jacked...
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it could also be that you need to clear the battery stats, my brother in law has had that issue many times after flashing CM on several different devices, but it could still be a jacked battery, am a licensed electrician and i can tell you while it does happen often for me because we buy so many products (obviously) that we get bad items directly from the manufacturer.
How can I clear the battery stats? I used to do this all the time under advance in clockwork recovery but I don't see it there on this phone. Thanks!
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MotoDefier said:
we get bad items directly from the manufacturer.
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This happens way too often. Not just electronics, either.
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How can I clear the battery stats? I used to do this all the time under advance in clockwork recovery but I don't see it there on this phone. Thanks!
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Try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ignisoft.battery.calibration
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Well I charged my phone to 100% and calibrated the battery and not two minutes later it shut off for like the eighth time today... I'm going to go ahead and order a battery on eBay and if it keeps doing it I'm getting a gs4 and my s3 will be for sale lol.
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Metalman1020468 said:
Well I charged my phone to 100% and calibrated the battery and not two minutes later it shut off for like the eighth time today... I'm going to go ahead and order a battery on eBay and if it keeps doing it I'm getting a gs4 and my s3 will be for sale lol.
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Is it a new phone?
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No it's a year old.
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Just since I calibrated my battery last night my phone has already shut down five times. That's so frustrating... Hopefully slapping a new battery in it solves my issues.
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Metalman1020468 said:
Just since I calibrated my battery last night my phone has already shut down five times. That's so frustrating... Hopefully slapping a new battery in it solves my issues.
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dont worry it should, if not i know its been a year but tmo should replace it under faulty equipment, i have had phones replaced for faulty equip. two and three years later, dont forget to go back to stock and reset binary and flash counter.
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dont worry it should, if not i know its been a year but tmo should replace it under faulty equipment, i have had phones replaced for faulty equip. two and three years later, dont forget to go back to stock and reset binary and flash counter.
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So the battery didn't help at all. Just for fun I flashed darthstalker X1 again and it seems to be working fine now. Weird... I'll try to get to the bottom of this but I'm boggled.
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One more thing it was doing was when I'd turn the screen off it would always come back on. It would do that two or the times before it would stay off then half the time the phone crashed. It's not doing that now either and I had that trouble on several different roms.
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Nevermind it's still doing it my phone must be jacked....
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Metalman1020468 said:
Nevermind it's still doing it my phone must be jacked....
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I had those same issues on my motorola defy when I was over clocked and running the v6 supercharger script at the same time.
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