[Solved] Battery will not chare to full - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Hey my Samsung GS3 will not charge to 100%. It usually stops around 90% on the stock charger. I'm not sure if it happened when flashing a ROM or Kernel (I think it was when I flashed Faux kernel but not 100% sure) but has been ongoing for over a week now. Even when the phone is turned off and shows the battery charging animation It still only goes to about 90%.
I occasionally use some extra batteries that I got off ebay (they say Samsung and look like Samsung however they are knock offs that last about half the time) but I read that you do not need to clear battery stats on Samsung phones.
Any ideas? It isn't the biggest issue, just annoying when trying to see if the phone is fully charged.
Thanks!

Turn your phone off. Charge to 100%. Reboot and calibrate your battery. Bunch of apps on market. I personally use "battery calibration". Ironic huh?
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Turn your phone off. Charge to 100%. Reboot and calibrate your battery. Bunch of apps on market. I personally use "battery calibration". Ironic huh?
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Just tried this and I can't calibrate it because your battery has to be charged to 100% and mine only goes up to 90ish. Unless I missed something in the app...

any ideas?
Edit... There were 2 battery calibration apps with the same name. One has to be at 100% where as the other can do it either way. Downloaded the proper one and all is well thanks!

Doesnt have to be 100 to calibrate
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New extended battery help

Ok I got a new extended battery what souls I do to condition it so my phone will charge to to 100%
I'm in rooted so can't wipe battery stats
Also is there a way to check its capacity so I know its fully charged
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Since you aren't rooted, best you can do is:
-Charge to 100%
-Let the phone die, so its manually turns off
-Charge back to 100%, use as normal
And not really...
Aww, c'mon Roxx, you know that's not the way. Even HTC says don't let your battery die.
Let it drop to under about 50%, then charge for 8 hrs, while off. Unplug, boot up let it settle in for a few mins, then power down and charge for another hour.
Then boot up.
That's the best for unrooted phones.
I just feel odd about killing batteries and anything 4 my 2nd question good app to monitor my battery......most don't have good info
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HipKat said:
Aww, c'mon Roxx, you know that's not the way. Even HTC says don't let your battery die.
Let it drop to under about 50%, then charge for 8 hrs, while off. Unplug, boot up let it settle in for a few mins, then power down and charge for another hour.
Then boot up.
That's the best for unrooted phones.
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Well it gives the lithium batteries the best chance to discharge, then started the process over. Continued practice of that is bad, but for 1 power cycle, it is okay. Though through normal usage, you should charge it whenever it gets low
Omgadroid said:
I just feel odd about killing batteries and anything 4 my 2nd question good app to monitor my battery......most don't have good info
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Battery Moniter Widget is the best, and I don't think you need be rooted for it.
Rexx, I agree that doing it once may not be bad, but I say why take chances, ya know?
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Battery Moniter Widget is the best, and I don't think you need be rooted for it.
Rexx, I agree that doing it once may not be bad, but I say why take chances, ya know?
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Yea a good app for non rooted phones.
And well fair enough, especially for those less experienced.
This was posted awhile ago on the xda EVO 4G forum and it seemed to work for me.
1) turn ON Phone & charge for 8 hrs.
then
2) unplug charger - turn OFF phone & charge another hour (1)
then
3) unplug charger - turn phone ON, wait (2) minutes then,
turn OFF phone & charge another hour (1).
Your battery has been set and your battery time should be doubled.
This as per HTC​
I have also found that using the app: Juicedefender
works great even with its default settings.
Good Luck...
I'm a moderate user the norm battery would last me from 2 am to about 1 pm I work nights
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Battery issue after charge

My battery goes from 100% to 66% right after pulling the cord when it finishes charging. How do I fix this?
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I have to charge my battery again to make it work right but it happens almost every day
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Calibrated and no help!
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Calibrated and no help!
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Try booting into CWM and clear battery stats, restart your phone, run your phone until the battery is so low it shuts off. Then plug the phone in, turn it on, put it in airplane mode and let it charge to 100%.
At thus point use it as normal but let the battery die one or two more times before charging it again. This should give your phone a nice solid calibration.
Good luck!
Just to add on to that one idea would be pull the batt. Five minutes should do it...when u restart what it reads will be "true". Some Roms have battery saving scripts and when you switch they take a min to go away while dalvik resets...leading to a rude awakening...lol
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Gonna give my input. I was having a similiar problem. Battery draining like crazy. Dropping from 99 to 80 in like 30 mins of use. Finally got fed up and decided to go to a sprint repair and service center. Turns out the battery was shot to hell. Bloated. So they gave me a OG epic battery for the mean time and ordered me a new oem one. Free of charge with TEP Picking it up tuesday. Been using this OG epic battery and altough it does have less capacity it defiantly is draining more slowely. So try it out have them inspect yours.
I agree with "rwilco12"
Try booting into CWM and clear battery stats, restart your phone, run your phone until the battery is so low it shuts off. Then plug the phone in, turn it on, put it in airplane mode and let it charge to 100%.
This worked for me...
I'll try these suggestions. Thanks!
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Guys
I have been having the same problem and try lots of things but what I did not try and just found out is that my phone has a 1500mHa instead off a 1800mHa Sprint store made a mistake and placed the wrong battery inside my phone.
Maybe some of the problems you guys are having is due to that fact.
Besides opening the phone there are several app that will actually tell you which battery you have I.E. Battery Monitor
Tungsten c said:
Guys
I have been having the same problem and try lots of things but what I did not try and just found out is that my phone has a 1500mHa instead off a 1800mHa Sprint store made a mistake and placed the wrong battery inside my phone.
Maybe some of the problems you guys are having is due to that fact.
Besides opening the phone there are several app that will actually tell you which battery you have I.E. Battery Monitor
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I just downloaded that battery monitor and it said I have a 1500MAH battery too so I called sprint went down and got a new battery and when I opened my phone to put the new one in it turns out the one I have is a 1800 so I would not put much stock into what that Battery Monitor app says but hell I just got a free spare battery so it was still a win!
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I just downloaded that battery monitor and it said I have a 1500MAH battery too so I called sprint went down and got a new battery and when I opened my phone to put the new one in it turns out the one I have is a 1800 so I would not put much stock into what that Battery Monitor app says but hell I just got a free spare battery so it was still a win!
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That app is set to 1500 by default. However, I do remember seeing a thread here and on AC about several of our phones that were shipped with the 1500 battery by mistake
I have 1800 and the method with the airplane mode worked
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First charge

Hey guys! Just gotten my note 2, and gonna drain the battery down soon, should I plug it in and charge for 8 hours straight from zero? Should this be done with the phone off? Or this doesn't matter anymore?
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Doesn't matter anymore...
I usually do it. Zedomax recommends it, and it doesn't hurt anything to do so.
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Is it alright I do it with the power on?
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This is not needed anymore.
if the battery takes to long to kill then simply its already calibrated
many people don't know how a none-calibrated battery acts and think "battery life is great but it will get better later!"
if anyone of you happened to have a nokia phone in year 2000ish and still have it around i recommend you to go get a replacement battery for it and see for your self
unless the new battery jumps from 100% down to like 80/70% in no time then take too long to drain from 10% or something like that (in short battery acting weird)
then its already calibrated which is the case in all new phones/batteries
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unless the battery is acting weird and not taking too long to kill then you dont need to do that
Hell Guardian said:
This is not needed anymore.
if the battery takes to long to kill then simply its already calibrated
many people don't know how a none-calibrated battery acts and think "battery life is great but it will get better later!"
if anyone of you happened to have a nokia phone in year 2000ish and still have it around i recommend you to go get a replacement battery for it and see for your self
unless the new battery jumps from 100% down to like 80/70% in no time then take too long to drain from 10% or something like that (in short battery acting weird)
then its already calibrated which is the case in all new phones/batteries
TL;DR
unless the battery is acting weird and not taking too long to kill then you dont need to do that
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Thanks a lot I got my retail set from a carrier, so glad to have joined the note 2 community coming from the s3 :X so I just charge it up to full as per normal yes?
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This charging a long time first usage is also an old thing from the old nicd and nimh batteries..
in fact li-po and li-ion wont even charge after they are done, overcharging them means they explode/burn or get damaged.
there are built in safety features to prevent that.
and pulling it down to 0% means nothing since modern nimh, li-po, li-ion batteries don't got the memory effect.
actually going down to 0% would only test if the low voltage cutoff works as it should or if you damage your battery.
no need for that!
Frostyeo said:
Hey guys! Just gotten my note 2, and gonna drain the battery down soon, should I plug it in and charge for 8 hours straight from zero? Should this be done with the phone off? Or this doesn't matter anymore?
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Batteries that comes with the latestmpgones these day do not need to be charged for 8 hours!
Just charge it till its full and continue to enjoy it!
You can preserve the life of you battery by not fully charging it and you can damage it by draining completely. I've no source for this information.
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Battery life Replenished!

I was on here trying to find a way to reset my battery's memory...and I found it! Its so easy. So during the day, drain your battery to 20%, and plug it in all night. When you wake up, take off the back, and take out the battery for 3-4 minutes. Then, put the battery in the phone and turn it on. As it's turning on, plug in the charger. Leave the charger in until the phone says "charged" or has the battery icon showing full. Unplug your charger, and say Hi to a factory battery.
AT&T Samsung Galaxy S III
2% in 17 minutes....this is phenomenal... at least for me.
AT&T Samsung Galaxy S III
It is just an overcharged battery...
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What do you mean?
AT&T Samsung Galaxy S III
my understanding is that the battery is never really charged to 100% (even if you see 100% charged in the software).
it is a way to prevent overcharging the battery (because on the long run, it is decreasing the battery life and performance)
So, what you are doing is that you found a way for overcharging the battery and the result is that the battery life for the first 100 to 98 will be very good, however it will go back to normal after this step.
Correct me If I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that I'm right
Nah, its completely better...
AT&T Samsung Galaxy S III
Lol....you'll have to show more proof than that, even if youre phone confirms what you said.
Matrix is right, I think this is in your head. Placebo effect as its known.
show us screen shots of batterry useage for a week with this technique, then a week with out.
Then others will have to try it out.
Hey if your smart enough (since again your NOT doing anything physically, trust me ) you could write a a little script and make it an app?
Also its been said the battery gauge is really kind of a pasifier for us.
Physicaly there is no way you are changing the state of the battery by just touching the contacts real fast.
UNLESS your batter contacts are totally fried/or oxidized and somehow the friction has cleaned them???
If any thing, you are resetting the battery statistics/calibration and that ( confirmed by google, and a few a manufacturers)
does nothing.
One thing about batteries; the harder you work them the shorter they live, this is why Samsung,htc even apple said the batteries don't fully charge 100%, because if they did the batteries wouldnt last half as long.
But hey keep working on it maybe you got something there! :good:
and just for yucks
Your phone never charges all the way to prevent over charging and help keep your battery healthy for a longer period of time. Some kernels allow you to change this hidden setting from 98% to 100%.
All you are doing is circumventing the system and potentially harming your battery. And unless you keep doing this for every charge cycle it will return to normal.
You may be experiencing a placebo effect because your battery stats have changed based on the over charge. The battery stats data is used to guage your battery life.. This is updated for every cycle and will eventually return to normal on its own.
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Good job man. Don't listen to these haters. All they do is complain and shoot everyone down when they have a good idea. So **** em
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We're not "complaining" we're simply correcting the statement. Its for the users own good. Don't be drama.
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[Q] Battery Issue

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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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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