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Wondering if anyone else has had any battery issues? I went to sleep last night with about 85% or more battery, and 5.5 hours later my phone was dead....when i plugged it in for like 5 minutes to call my work and tell them i was going to be late...when i got to work my phone said 45% phone idle and 45% cell standby for battery use
none here - took phone off charger about midnight, this morning after alarm rang for the full 10 minutes, it still showed 100%
i've been watching it and am really impressed with battery life - is it possible you've got a program running in the background? - i had Startup Auditor to stop apps in the background but had that from before, on my Vibrant
on the vibrant,running a predominantly black wallpaper, screen brightness at 13%, putting phone in "airplane mode" when i sleep, keeping GPS off, data sync off etc, it'd be down to 17-22% at end of day before going back on charger
this G2, running live wallpaper (thunderstorm), no efficiency moves (ie GPS off, etc), screen brightness at 50%, phone still had 34% last night before going back on the charger - and the battery has not "conditioned" - i noticed on the past 2 phones batteries life got better after the first few weeks of use.
Nothing different than my nexus...and i was thinking maybe it was a game but that should have been killed automatically and i dont think it would say phone standby and cell idle if it was an app would it?
tonite you might try putting the phone in airplane mode when you go to bed, and turn off GPS
see what happens to battery drain overnite - if it diminishes then i'd look at what apps you've installed. there was an article on engadget not too long ago that some researchers had analyzed the 358 most popular apps, and found 30 were reporting data to their "mothership" that had not declared it or asked for permission to report data.
hope that helps
well another weird thing is, that when i bought the phone and brought it home, usually it comes with half battery and thats what it showed but i had to charge it quick with no apps really installed on it yet...Im charging now and will test to see what happens with battery...i just removed off alot of my apps.... to see whats up
I'm getting about 10 hours with regular usage though I wish I knew why Photobucket keeps starting everytime i kill it.
I hope you guys charged the phone fully before you used it first. That can play a big role in battery life.
I got my phone yesterday and haven't done any calibrations yet. I've been playing with it like you normally would if you buy a new smartphone. I took it off the charger around 9pm last night and at 7:32am right now I have about 60% left. So roughly 10.5 hours later and I've only lost about 40%. I'm very impressed by that. My vibrant would have been dead by now, it rarely lasts through the night if its not on the charger.
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Wondering if anyone else has had any battery issues? I went to sleep last night with about 85% or more battery, and 5.5 hours later my phone was dead....when i plugged it in for like 5 minutes to call my work and tell them i was going to be late...when i got to work my phone said 45% phone idle and 45% cell standby for battery use
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What's your time with out signal, sounds like the 50% bug to me, google the airplane mode fix, if not you might want to look into a new radio, and you should allways recal your battery after you flash
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rigbyrobot said:
What's your time with out signal, sounds like the 50% bug to me, google the airplane mode fix, if not you might want to look into a new radio, and you should allways recal your battery after you flash
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what do you mean time without signal? and cant flash the build or radio without root(if thats what you meant) im fully charging it now and removed all of my apps...and going to see what happens from there
I've been using mine off and on mostly text, web and speedtests for 4 hours off the charger and my battery is at 91%
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So like everyone else my battery life sucks. No big deal. I bought the extended battery from Sprint, and I can see the battery diminish in front of my eyes. I mean dropping 1 percent per minute. Is there a way to test the phone to see if it is the culprit?
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ther are lots of ways to check things. does it drop 1% a minute all the time meaning you only get 100 minutes? does it only do it when you take it off the charger at 100% where ti will drop to any where from 99-90% in a matter of minutes?
if the later then thats normal and is because the phone doesnt have a trickle charge. this means that the phone charges your battery to 100% then stops however the indicator on the phone will not change it will still show 100% once the acctual power reaches 90% the phone then charges again up to 100%. what this means is once you take your phone off the pwoer if it has been sitting there even if it says it is at 1005 it can be any where from 90-100% which the battery quickly changes to over first few minutes.
If it happens past 90% and all the time then something is wrong and you likely have at least 1 if not more apps running wild on you, you have things set to sync constantly, and you have everything under the sun turned on for your phone.
for apps the paid version of system panel is very nice for monitoring you can go to monitor top and top apps and see which apps are using the most battery/cpu.
witht he information you have given that is aobut the best i can tell you. I would not say everyone has crappy battery life with the evo as i have slowly gotten my phone set up and now with moderate usage i can get 14-15 hours and at least 8-10 with very heavy usage(stock battery) which i dont consider to be crappy battery life.
I appreciate the response, and I forgot to add that I'm running stock unrooted sense. This is not my first Android phone so I know about battery managing. I don't have everything sync every two minutes nor do I have everything turned on. It does drop rather quick even past 90 percent. I think it might be the phone it self. I doubt I got 2 bad batteries, one being extended. I'll see if I could get a device swapped out.
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My first EVO was like that. It drained quickly shortly after charging. I could never figure it out. Till one night before going to bed, I noticed something weird about the bottom keys on the phone. They were " very dimmly " lit. The home, menu, return, search were all dimmly lit. It was I believe a defect in the phone. I got it swapped out. No problems like the 1% drain since then.
Normally I charge my phone nightly right before I go to bed and don't plug it in at all during the day usually.
I have noticed that on days where I have to use my phone heavily and require a charge midway through the day for the next week my phones battery life is almost cut in half. If I charge it regularly at night for a week or so the battery life will go back to normal. Has anyone else noticed this behavior? I'm trying to figure out if this is an incredible issue or an android issue.
Another thing I noticed is that under the battery stats it lists that my awake time is 43 hours. Its just slightly less that the up time. This makes me think that my phone isn't going to sleep. Anyone know how to tell if my phone is sleeping or tell me which app is keeping my phone from sleeping?
Install this app
http://www.appbrain.com/app/spare-parts/com.androidapps.spare_parts
Go to partial wake. in one of the drop downs.
I checked the partial wake usage and I don't see anything out of the ordinary.
I actually have an update to the situation. As a last resort I wiped my phone and loaded Cyanogen 6.1. At first it was working awesome. Battery life was awesome but as time went on the battery life got worse and worse and now i'm back where I started.
It sure seems like there is software problem with the way the phone tracks the battery usage/charging information. As I said it seems like charging the phone midway through the day or charging the phone before the phone is dead seems to have a negative effect on the battery. I don't get it. Letting the phone completely die isn't realistic. Charging the phone when I go to bed without affecting how long the phone last after the next charge should be totally doable you would think.
Does anyone have any suggestions or insight that might help me out.
You don't say if you charge with the phone powered off or on. But sound like you're always charging with the phone turned on.
I don't think the phone charges fully while turned on (to prevent overheating maybe? ).
If you can, I'd suggest trying to charge with the phone off, at least during the nightly charge.
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Yes I do charge my phone while its powered on (like the rest of the world). I don't know anyone that turns their phone off to charge.
My phone is paid for by my company so that they can get ahold of me in the event of a server failure or some other IT related disaster. If the phone was off I wouldn't be able to receive those important calls.
I can't believe no one else has witnessed this type of activity with the incredible. I have tried 2 phones (replaced for an unrelated reason) and 3 batteries. The behavior seems like a software glitch. I have noticed with with both AOSP and Sense Roms.
Does anyone have an in depth understanding of how the battery system works on this phone. I also have an Iphone and the battery life compared to my android phone is ridiculous. I would use the Iphone exclusively but it doesn't do everything my android phone can do. I'm hoping there is a way to fix this.
Well, now you do know someone who charges with their phone off. Me!
I'm in IT as well and on call one week per month. But we don't run a third shift, so late night calls are almost never, and they have my land line number.
Back on topic, I have experienced better battery life while charging with the phone off. Maybe you can get an external charger until a solution is found.
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Well i'm on call 24/7 and I don't have a landline.
What do you mean by "get an external charger until a solution is found." Do you mean a second charger to charge during the day? I have plenty of chargers. Thats part of the problem. Charging in the middle of the day I believe is causing the problem. Until a solution is found? Are you saying there is in fact a problem?
Having to leave my phone plugged in all day kind of defeats the purpose of having a wireless phone don't you think?
Please...anyone have any knowledge of how the charging system works in android and specifically how it might work differently on the incredible?
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What do you mean by "get an external charger until a solution is found." Do you mean a second charger to charge during the day?
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I should have said get an extra battery and a stand-alone charger that allows you to charge the extra battery while it's disconnected from the phone.
Have you read the thread in general titled 'your battery gauge is lying to you'. (or something like that). Good read. Also there's hundreds of other threads on the inc's battery issues. Well known problem.
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If your up time and awake time are essentially the same, you definitely have something running in the background. Try menu/settings/applications/running services and see what program might be running that shouldn't be. You can also use an app called System Panel to do a comprehensive survey. I recently had an update that resulted in the program running continuously in the background, affecting my battery life.
Some other threads have discussed that after 40+ hours of up time, their phone goes into max CPU usage all the time. Again, using the app System Panel, I confirmed this for my own phone at 45 hours. My ROM is the stock Froyo 2.2 with a custom kernel. the simple solution is to power off/power on the phone which resets the uptime.
My routine is to charge the phone with power on over night so I can use the alarm. When I get up in the morning, I power off the phone and bump charge it for about 30 minutes until the light turns green again. Then I'm usually good for about 10 - 12 hours of uptime with 3-4 hours of awake time using a 1500 battery. That time can also be reduced considerably if I'm receiving a poor 3G signal.
I did originally have a problem with a program not allowing my phone to sleep but I have since uninstalled that program and now my wake time numbers are where they should be. I think the remaining battery issues are a result of me having to charge my phone in the middle of the day as a result of the misbehaving program prior to me uninstalling it.
It almost seems like the the battery in the incredible has a memory. On a hunch I have started completely discharging my phone completely everynight before I put it on the charger. As a result my battery life as almost doubled. When I get home at night I start playing angry birds with the brightness at full until the battery gets to about 3 percent left. This obviously isn't a permanent solution but It certainly sheds some light on the root of the problem.
Prior to doing the full discharge I did a bump charge and wiped my battery stats. The battery is working great now. I wish someone would create a kernal/rom that has this issue resolved. Since these new lithium batteries aren't supposed to have a memory anymore I'm thinking it has to be something that the OS is doing with the battery stats file.
According to this article you should fully charge and discharge once every 30 or so charging cycles to resync the battery meter with the actual battery voltage. So maybe the complete discharge fixed your problems.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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not sure if this will help or not, but i have been running advanced task killer ever since 2.1(haven't gotten around to uninstalling before now, ha ha) and recently uninstalled it and installed watchdog task manager and my battery has increased two fold!
just my two cents worth.
Hey guys, I just got the droid incredible 2 and I first had the LG revolution but the 4g and the screen size made the battery drop down quick. I played with it for 20 minutes after it being fully charged, changing settings, and the battery went way down to about 80%. So I exchanged it for the HTC Incredible 2. They told me the batter was way better.
I went to the Verizon store to tell them the batter dowesn't last as long as expected. My Iphone 4 would be on all day, texting, pandora, email and web browsing and I still came home from work with battery left. My droid gets used from 7am to 1pm and its pretty much dead by then. They made me change the background data off, sync only email and weather, and download juice defender.
The batter still dies by 12:30pm after charging all night.
I have read all over people are getting excellent battery usage but I don't really know what to do to get the same. It is not temp rooted. Any ideas? Also, at work, in the building the data coverage is not so good so I usually do nothing but text on it and it still dies by 1pm.
I can't really say how well mine would do on the standard battery because I bought the extended battery immediately after getting the phone. I've been unplugged almost 15 hours and have 38% battery and I have sent/recieved 40-50 txts, 20 mins phone, browsed internet for 30-45 mins, played games around 30 mins, and listened to pandora for around 45 mins.
I would recommend the extended battery, it's $50 at verizon and I haven't even come close to killing it in a day.
Does the extended battery make the phone bigger? I'm thinking it would be thicker on the back. Would it have any drawbacks as to cases and stuff like that?
I'm not sure why mine is so bad, prolly because I am in a secure building and signal doesn't get through constantly. I'm surprised, I thought my iphone had bad battery.
the extended battery does have a thicker back. and yes, there are currently no cases for it, so there would be an issue there if having a case is very important.
as to your current battery, if your in a biulding with bad signal, that will most defintiely affect your battery life as your phone will have to use more battery to try to find a good signal. additionally though, the phone battery does seem to improve after about a week of charge/discharge cycles. not sure why this is, but i have seen it on my phone and seen many other report the same.
The battery sticks out a little more than 1/8th of an inch I would say. However, IMHO it protects the camera lens and flash lens from getting broken and I never really like using a case anyways.
I have amazing battery i charge it to 100 percent unplugged after then go to school texting 100-200 average everyday internet music by the time i get 3:00 i still have 80-70% and i'm 13 so imagine how much i use it and it still stays at that percentage
Having a phone in a building (or anywhere) the signal is weak is a drain on your battery. If your iPhone was with AT&T the signal may have been stronger where you work than with Verizon and may have therefore contributed to better battery life.
Also, if you didn't FULLY charge your DInc2 and FULLY discharge it right when you got it, you should really do a factory reset and immediately do the following:
Charge the phone for at least 8hrs with the power off, unplug for a few minutes, plug it back in. The light should only remain red for 10-20 seconds before turning green, otherwise this unplug-plug part should be repeated a few more times always letting it remain on "green" for an hour before unplugging an plugging back in.
THEN power up and use the phone until it shuts itself off because the battery is drained. Let it sit for a few minutes, and turn it on again. It should sut itself off again pretty quick. Let it sit, turn on again. Do this until it wont power up at all after sitting untouched for a few minutes and your battery is then fully discharged.
Now you can plug it in and start the charge part of the cycle as lined out earlier. Once the light turns green 10-20 sec after plugging it in again you have completed one "cycle".
This may sound excessive, but I'm kind of a nut about this kind of thing.
I didn't do anything special when I got my I2, am a realtively heavy user, and have an all day battery life. I'm pretty careless with my features being left on.
If you can't get it to last all day, either you are a much heavier user than I am or you do, in fact, either have a battery problem, or a battery calibration problem. You shouldn't need to calibrate the battery algorithms, but I guess it doesn't hurt to try.
I wouldn't say I am a heavy user. I normally text while I am at work and check facebook a few times. I also listen to pandora most times. I work for Vanguard and most people here have Verizon I believe. I was told when I switched from AT&T that signal should not be a problem where I am at. My Iphone 4 would get used much more and it too would have signal problems as well until I turned 3g off but it would last way longer than the droid.
I guess I can try the factory reset and full charge cycle this weekend but I'm not sure what Verizon can do for me either so it may just stay like this
this is bump charging no? (well the part about how to charge it). i spoke to am htc rep that said that bump charging will significantly decrease the lifespan of your battery life and therefore is highly not recommended.
TheAtheistReverend said:
Having a phone in a building (or anywhere) the signal is weak is a drain on your battery. If your iPhone was with AT&T the signal may have been stronger where you work than with Verizon and may have therefore contributed to better battery life.
Also, if you didn't FULLY charge your DInc2 and FULLY discharge it right when you got it, you should really do a factory reset and immediately do the following:
Charge the phone for at least 8hrs with the power off, unplug for a few minutes, plug it back in. The light should only remain red for 10-20 seconds before turning green, otherwise this unplug-plug part should be repeated a few more times always letting it remain on "green" for an hour before unplugging an plugging back in.
THEN power up and use the phone until it shuts itself off because the battery is drained. Let it sit for a few minutes, and turn it on again. It should sut itself off again pretty quick. Let it sit, turn on again. Do this until it wont power up at all after sitting untouched for a few minutes and your battery is then fully discharged.
Now you can plug it in and start the charge part of the cycle as lined out earlier. Once the light turns green 10-20 sec after plugging it in again you have completed one "cycle".
This may sound excessive, but I'm kind of a nut about this kind of thing.
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I just got mine on Sunday, but even yesterday I was texting and surfing a fair amount yesterday and went to bed with the phone at 61%...
I am sort of amazed, I think Verizon has taken the underclocking thing and put it to work on the official release... at one point I turned off the screen for what amounted to an hour and when i turned it back on it was still the same battery level.
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I wouldn't say I am a heavy user. I normally text while I am at work and check facebook a few times. I also listen to pandora most times. I work for Vanguard and most people here have Verizon I believe. I was told when I switched from AT&T that signal should not be a problem where I am at. My Iphone 4 would get used much more and it too would have signal problems as well until I turned 3g off but it would last way longer than the droid.
I guess I can try the factory reset and full charge cycle this weekend but I'm not sure what Verizon can do for me either so it may just stay like this
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if your comparing battery life on the dinc2 with 3G on versus the iphone with 3G off there will also be a pretty big difference. if your tuirn off 3G on your dinc2, i would imagine battery life will be similar or better than your iphone had with 3G off also.
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if your comparing battery life on the dinc2 with 3G on versus the iphone with 3G off there will also be a pretty big difference. if your tuirn off 3G on your dinc2, i would imagine battery life will be similar or better than your iphone had with 3G off also.
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No I was comparing the Inc 2 to the Iphone with 3G on. My iphone would also last longer if I turned 3g off and just used Edge or whatever it is called. I don't think I can do this with the droid until it is rooted or download an app to do this.
I turned off juice defender and we will see how it goes today. I don't really like apps running in the background and it was turning off data eacht ime the screen locked.
I think the biggest difference is the verizon signal. The battery on this phone is amazing for an android device. While it is still nowhere near iphone 4 status as far as battery, it shouldn't drain like that. Have them either swap you a battery or the phone itself.
I'm a relatively heavy user. Especially with voice calls and I can go a day and a half easy.
But I also run launched pro with only a couple of widgets. To me sense is a battery hog.
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What would I do to go about swapping out the battery or the phone itself? Should I go back to the same verizon store? Or call them on the support line and try to get a battery or new phone that way? I have no clue why it is draining like that either, the signal can't be that bad, I literally had the same signal with AT&T in these buildings.
Well, lets be honest, one of the things Apple really puts a lot of time and effort into in their development is long battery life. It wouldn't surprise me to see the iphone outlasting most Android devices.
In any case...
While I don't need to, I do charge my phone while at the office. If you have a desk job then I don't see how this would be problematic. My work day usage includes 2 hours of bluetooth streaming (in my car to the stereo), media playback (music/podcast), and mapping with gps and 3g data (this drains my battery pretty quickly, but that's relative...it's about 15% per hour). Outside of that, my battery drain is quite low.
I only started charging at the office because I like to keep my battery as full as possible in case of extended emergency that requires being away from a charging source. It's that whole boy scout be prepared mentality I have. Besides, if you have the opportunity to charge, why not? It seems to charge pretty quick anyway.
I can charge at the office, but normally I forget the cord at home. Not a problem to buy another one but still. I was just concerned because I hear people getting 15 some hours on one charge and as of right now, my battery is below 50% since I just got back from lunch.
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What would I do to go about swapping out the battery or the phone itself? Should I go back to the same verizon store? Or call them on the support line and try to get a battery or new phone that way? I have no clue why it is draining like that either, the signal can't be that bad, I literally had the same signal with AT&T in these buildings.
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take it back to the store, and if that doesn't work then call. but the store would probably be a better bet as they can give you a new phone or new battery there whereas the phone support, you'd have to wait for the shipment.
Seems as if they were not able to help in store the first time. Rather than have someone check it out, they had someone come over and tell me I should turn off all the sync and data features. So I did do that, but then why did I get a smartphone?
It's possible you have an app that is not allowing the device to sleep. If it can't sleep, it will drain the battery much faster. You might get 8 to 12 hours awake yet idle.
Are you using many third party apps? If so, have you considered going through them, removing them one at a time, until you find the battery doesn't drain so fast anymore?
If you go to About phone in settings, then Battery, the last item will show awake time. This should be much lower than your Up time.
Initially, I was very surprised and pleased by the battery life of this phone. I charged it on Saturday, and my usage since then took it down to about 73% this morning. 32 hours of use and 27% battery drain? I'll take that!
But something weird happened today. About midway through the day, the battery just started to crater. Worse yet, charging didn't do anything! The charging indicator animated, but battery life was still falling precipitously. I used it constantly on the train this morning, so I get why it was at 58% by the time I got to work, but then from 8am to about 2pm, it went down to 30%. Then from 2pm to 3pm while it was "charging", it went down to 18%.
Of course I googled the hell out of this, and came across this thread
And rebooting the phone magically stopped the battery drain, and allowed it to start charging again. So I guess our SGSII's are just like the international ones in that regard. Apparently some ROMs have fixed this, but we're still a little new to benefit from that approach. So, just a heads up: if your battery chart just starts falling into the floor, reboot and all will be well.
Note: this also explains the "Android OS" entry showing up at the top of your battery charts. I was shocked when 2 hours of display only accounted for 22% of my battery usage, while Android OS was 68%. Apparently the suspend mode goes insane sometimes and the process of attempting and failing to sleep the phone sucks the battery dry. I'd say that's pretty ironic, myself.
This happened to me also. I was not even touching my phone while working today and it beeped saying 50% I'm like wtf? So I let it sit still working and it beeped saying it needs to be charged. Crazy but I sure do hope this helps and is fixed soon.
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happened 2 me couple times, i thought some app was keeping my phone from going to sleep. so i tried spare parts, spare parts doesnt work on stock gingerbread roms on samsung... so i cudnt figure out wat was going wrong... because lets say my battery was at 80%, after i reboot, it would be at 55%, just with a reboot...
i figured something was going wrong in the background, and the battery stats are not reported correctly, your REAL battery percentage shows right when you reboot...
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after i rooted the phone, THIS FREAKING EXACT PROBLEM made me do a factory reset on my phone, which put my phone in a boot loop... after waiting 16+ hours for a stock kernal to come out, i had to brick my device on purpose (so sprint could not even turn it on), and dey gave me a new SGSII... if i didn't brick it, they would have known it was rooted, due to the international splash screen...
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Initially, I was very surprised and pleased by the battery life of this phone. I charged it on Saturday, and my usage since then took it down to about 73% this morning. 32 hours of use and 27% battery drain? I'll take that!
But something weird happened today. About midway through the day, the battery just started to crater. Worse yet, charging didn't do anything! The charging indicator animated, but battery life was still falling precipitously. I used it constantly on the train this morning, so I get why it was at 58% by the time I got to work, but then from 8am to about 2pm, it went down to 30%. Then from 2pm to 3pm while it was "charging", it went down to 18%.
Of course I googled the hell out of this, and came across this thread
And rebooting the phone magically stopped the battery drain, and allowed it to start charging again. So I guess our SGSII's are just like the international ones in that regard. Apparently some ROMs have fixed this, but we're still a little new to benefit from that approach. So, just a heads up: if your battery chart just starts falling into the floor, reboot and all will be well.
Note: this also explains the "Android OS" entry showing up at the top of your battery charts. I was shocked when 2 hours of display only accounted for 22% of my battery usage, while Android OS was 68%. Apparently the suspend mode goes insane sometimes and the process of attempting and failing to sleep the phone sucks the battery dry. I'd say that's pretty ironic, myself.
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Had you installed anything that could have caused this?
Mine was plugged in all night and said 100% then froze this am and dropped to 10% after reboot
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i was having the same issue at work eariler today
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Had you installed anything that could have caused this?
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No. I haven't installed anything since yesterday, when it was (supposedly) sipping the battery. It just started going nuts this afternoon. That's why I started looking and found that bug thread for the international SGSII. Apparently there was also a bug in 2.3.3 that would cause some widgets to suck the battery dry within hours, while idle and even in airplane mode. So I guess they're moving in the right direction.
I had a weird issue just now. Battery was at 26 percent. Did a reboot by holding the power button down for 8 seconds or whatever it is. When it booted back up about 30 seconds later i had 10 percent battery.
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Today is my first day giving this phone a while, and I've been awestruck by the battery life.
Screen on for a large chunk of the past 12 hours that I've owned it, and I'm still showing about 50 percent. I imagine a battery anticipating 4G usage but me having it turned off all the time gives the phone a real edge, lifewise.
Not looking forward to it cratering like you guys have seen.
HOW CAN YOU GET THIS LIFE AND I CANT?????
I hard reset and started over for everything
Should I take it to sprint store?
like it was some what pointed out alot may be due to the charger....i kept my epic 4g charger and have been using that
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like it was some what pointed out alot may be due to the charger....i kept my epic 4g charger and have been using that
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I kept my htc evo one, after hearing about screen sensitivity issues and now this.
I got 23 hours with some heavy use on the first charge. It should only get better with the new kernels.
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so this is 4 out of 4 samsung devices that do this. both galaxy tablets - 7 and 10.1, droid charge and now this. none of my other android tablets or phones do this. the battery just drops with nothing being used. at -2ma usage it goes from 60% to 20% in seconds or from a reboot.
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so this is 4 out of 4 samsung devices that do this. both galaxy tablets - 7 and 10.1, droid charge and now this. none of my other android tablets or phones do this. the battery just drops with nothing being used. at -2ma usage it goes from 60% to 20% in seconds or from a reboot.
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That may be the case, but I know from my Droid Eris, that bugs just happen. It had the infamous "Time without a signal" bug that used like half the battery life per charge. It basically had to be ROMed to work right. And that bug was there for over a year.
It's just sad the phone makers are being so sloppy. It makes Android seem like a POS, when it's really their fault.
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Is it normal to lose 27% charge with jjust 40 minutes of screen on time? Phone has been off the charger for maybe 2 hours. Im not getting anywhere near the claims of some people...
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Thanks guys for this thread, My first day I went out and had the phone and installed everything and got root and did titanium backup from my EVO 3D, and played some third blade, and got great battery life, but then yesturday went to work and it just tanked 5 hours and down 50% i was shocked, going to pull the battery if that happens to correct that.
This really disappoints me to see the 'Android OS' bug hasn't been fixed by Samsung despite the issue being reported this Spring when the international SGS2 launched. If I remember correctly it's due to the phone not going into 'deep sleep' after it's been unplugged from the charger. Android OS will be listed in the battery stats as the top consumer of battery.. the workaround is to reboot the phone after pulling it off of the charger in the morning.
I hope Samsung stays true to its word and provides steady firmware updates for their recent devices.. NOT to introduce new features but to fix some of these glaring issues (this one first and foremost)
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Android OS will be listed in the battery stats as the top consumer of battery.. the workaround is to reboot the phone after pulling it off of the charger in the morning.
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I'll have to try that. I know rebooting after the system goes nuts stops the drain, but I didn't realize it wasn't sleeping after being charged. I'll report back.
I experience weird battery draining periods throughout the day as well. I think I'll just try to clear my battery stats later.