Hi,
I bought my GSM galaxy nexus about 2 months back. I unlocked bootloader, rooted and installed stock JB, with franco.kernel. It worked fine for maybe a month. Then, charging the battery started maxing out at lower than 100%. Now, it does not ever charge beyond 82-83%. (in battery settings, it shows "82% - Not Charging" even with the stock chrger plugged in. I also charged using USb, the iPhone adapter, and another samsung charger.
I put this 82% charged battery in my friends GNex, and it showed 96% on his phone. It even charged to 100% without any hassles.
I put his phone's battery in my nexus. On his phone, it read 60%, on mine it showed 25%.
so, my phone's battery reading is off by almost 20-30%.
i wiped the phone FULLY, installed CM10, installed stock ROM, stock kernel, but nothing seemed to change this behaviour.
Any ideas which might help me, or do i send it to google? (which will be a lot of trouble since i dont live in the US).
Thanks.
Charge it fully ( in your case to 82%). Then boot into cwm recovery and try to clear the battery stats.
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thegtfusion said:
Charge it fully ( in your case to 82%). Then boot into cwm recovery and try to clear the battery stats.
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Battery stats has absolutely nothing to do with it. Charging his phone at only 4pm while having it gave down on an espresso colored end table would yield the exact same result.
No info related to battery charge is contained in that file. It is only a list of apps that have run on battery. Nothing more. Furthermore, the os periodically purges the file on its own.
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Just a curiosity, does your phone still lasts as long as 100%?
kyokeun1234 said:
Just a curiosity, does your phone still lasts as long as 100%?
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yes, i believe it does (It still gets me through the day, like before). I think it stops charging because the battery gives a feedback of being full, just dunno why the phone thinks its at that low percentage..
could juice defender have something to do with it?
samyg said:
yes, i believe it does (It still gets me through the day, like before). I think it stops charging because the battery gives a feedback of being full, just dunno why the phone thinks its at that low percentage..
could juice defender have something to do with it?
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Nope, Juice Defender only turns radios off and on. Nothing to do with how phone reads the battery %
May I ask what you have done to fix it?
kyokeun1234 said:
Nope, Juice Defender only turns radios off and on. Nothing to do with how phone reads the battery %
May I ask what you have done to fix it?
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I am unable to anything that can fix it. I have tried wiping battery stats (knowing it's useless), drained my battery and recharged, full wiped etc.
The reason i'm asking about juice defender is that i switched JD on some time back (on extreme mode). The battery was at 66% when i unplugged it and put JD on.
Since then, the battery reading has come UP to 70% (no charger connected, and it even shows discharging in the battery settings page).
I'm thinking i'll charge to whatever level it allows, then leave it for a day with juice defender on, maybe it'll go up to 100%.
Sorry that I cannot help you, but I've seen a lot of threads about this. I think you should search for them and see if there's an answer. I think that's the best choice until somebody comes up with something
silly question.. have you tried another battery? the problem could be the battery itself.
You have obviously a reading problem not a battery problem. Something got messed up somewhere. I recommend wipe clean your phone and bring it back to stock. If it works, start toying with it again, if not you are ready for warranty exchange
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samyg said:
Hi,
I bought my GSM galaxy nexus about 2 months back. I unlocked bootloader, rooted and installed stock JB, with franco.kernel. It worked fine for maybe a month. Then, charging the battery started maxing out at lower than 100%. Now, it does not ever charge beyond 82-83%. (in battery settings, it shows "82% - Not Charging" even with the stock chrger plugged in. I also charged using USb, the iPhone adapter, and another samsung charger.
I put this 82% charged battery in my friends GNex, and it showed 96% on his phone. It even charged to 100% without any hassles.
I put his phone's battery in my nexus. On his phone, it read 60%, on mine it showed 25%.
so, my phone's battery reading is off by almost 20-30%.
i wiped the phone FULLY, installed CM10, installed stock ROM, stock kernel, but nothing seemed to change this behaviour.
Any ideas which might help me, or do i send it to google? (which will be a lot of trouble since i dont live in the US).
Thanks.
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If you already flashed back the stock kernel and that doesn't fix it, I'd say your gnex has a hw issue.
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If you already flashed back the stock kernel and that doesn't fix it, I'd say your gnex has a hw issue.
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Or a battery problem
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Or a battery problem
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Thanks for the replies.
1. As i said, i put my battery in another Gnex, reading was much higher, and charged to 100%. I put my friends battery (at 60% on his GNex) in my phone, it showed 25%. Not a battery issue, i believe..
2. I wiped FULLY (including system, data, cache, dalvik, battery stats. everything except my storage) and went back to a rooted stock JB rom and kernel. no change. so i switched back to CM10.
So.. i guess hardware issues?
Also, could you help me out by giving a link with this problem elsewhere, i cant seem to find one.. i'll keep searching though. Thanks..
I know this is over a month old but I was wondering if anything has changed on the status of your Nexus. I have been having similar problems, only charges to a max of 63% though then dies in under 5 hours. I have tried a couple things you listed like going back to stock ROM, trying other batteries, pulled SIM card and battery out and just left it on a desk for 5 hours.
Did you end up having to send it back to Samsung?
I had already faced same problem in my samsung grand prime device
I had the same problem with my Meizu (!?) phone. The solution was to turn the phone off and charge it. It would pretty quickly go over that fixed % and to 100% full.
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strange thing is going on. my battery dropped form 50 to 17 %, than from 30 to 9% ect. before that i took out battery because i wanted to see something.
after that. battery life is getting worse. usually i could get about 4-4.5 hours of screen time. but now only 2-3 hours.
what is going on with my battery
Check your apps and install BetterBatterStats. It could be rogue apps not letting the phone go to sleep or making it work more than it should.
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Check your apps and install BetterBatterStats. It could be rogue apps not letting the phone go to sleep or making it work more than it should.
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i have watchdog for two days and it doesnt shows any problem.
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i have watchdog for two days and it doesnt shows any problem.
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I am having similar issues (Jellybean Vicious Jellybean4.1.1 AOSP, faux kernal). I can literally see the battery percentage go down a percent every 30 seconds or so when i am using my phone / surfing web / streaming music.
Cant post in the main forum now - any suggestions would be appreciated.
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I am having similar issues (Jellybean Vicious Jellybean4.1.1 AOSP, faux kernal). I can literally see the battery percentage go down a percent every 30 seconds or so when i am using my phone / surfing web / streaming music.
Cant post in the main forum now - any suggestions would be appreciated.
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It is often the kernal with the new JB roms. In an older build of Franco's kernal if you opened the camera when you first started the phone it would fix battery drain. I suggest a new kernal! (Franco's runs great on mine! ). If this doesn't work you might want to recalibrate your battery. This app works great, search "batterycalibration" on the play store. It will delete your battery data so your phone will charge to an actual 100%. Hope this helps!
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It is often the kernal with the new JB roms. In an older build of Franco's kernal if you opened the camera when you first started the phone it would fix battery drain. I suggest a new kernal! (Franco's runs great on mine! ). If this doesn't work you might want to recalibrate your battery. This app works great, search "batterycalibration" on the play store. It will delete your battery data so your phone will charge to an actual 100%. Hope this helps!
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There is so much wrong about this post its not even funny.
All kernels are pretty much equal. It all depends on how you tune it. You cannot calibrate your battery... all that does is delete battery stats. Which again DOES NOTHING.
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My N7 running JB gets great battery life, but the GNex on JB is crap when it comes to battery. I'm often out of battery by 3-4pm in the afternoon.
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My N7 running JB gets great battery life, but the GNex on JB is crap when it comes to battery. I'm often out of battery by 3-4pm in the afternoon.
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The GNex has a 1850 mAh battery while the N7 has a 4326 giant mAh battery. That's more than twice the juice. What did you expect?
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The GNex has a 1850 mAh battery while the N7 has a 4326 giant mAh battery. That's more than twice the juice. What did you expect?
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I've experienced crap battery since moving moving to JB as well. Same kernel and I can only manage 3.5 hours of display over like 8 hours. On Wi-Fi. Whereas on ICS same kernel as JB I was getting 5 hours. Its not just this guy.
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I picked up a spare battery over the weekend (identical 1750mAh Samsung batteries), and today I ran the first one from 100% down to below 30%, and swapped. When I arrived home, I popped in the first one to charge it, only to find it is at 58%. I guess the principle is to not pay too much attention to the exact number, and to keep all my batteries as highly charged as possible...
I don't seem to have any rogue apps. The phone appears to sleep very well when I'm not actively using it.
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I picked up a spare battery over the weekend (identical 1750mAh Samsung batteries), and today I ran the first one from 100% down to below 30%, and swapped. When I arrived home, I popped in the first one to charge it, only to find it is at 58%. I guess the principle is to not pay too much attention to the exact number, and to keep all my batteries as highly charged as possible...
I don't seem to have any rogue apps. The phone appears to sleep very well when I'm not actively using it.
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If your battery randomly drops when you reboot your phone do this :
Let it die completely until it turns off, keep it turned off and then charge it completely (usually overnight ) and then turn it back on and it'll show you a very accurate battery percentage
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If your battery randomly drops when you reboot your phone do this :
Let it die completely until it turns off, keep it turned off and then charge it completely (usually overnight ) and then turn it back on and it'll show you a very accurate battery percentage
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that is my problem.
i hope my phone wont die after i try that like you said.
I started running into some battery issues earlier today. I was on AOKP without any issues and one day the battery just started draining very fast. I went from about 50% to 15% in a matter of an hour. That night I slept with my phone charging and it did to get charged passd 54%. And it's charging very slow too. I thought it might be the ROM so I flashed Slim Bean. But it is not heling at all.
Anyone have anything similar going on?
What can I do?
Try calibrating the battery and go like 2-3 charge to discharge and see what its like afterwards
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Will do. I'll post back
Yea it takes a few rundowns to get into the sweet spot, I thought I was getting horrible battery life till someone suggested that to me now I get about 32-33 hrs on a charge. Which I think is about prefect, I don't game on it I just use everything else all the time. I have ps3, xbox360 & psp for gaming
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Well it's been charging for about 6 hours now and it won't get past 54%
I let it charge all night and when I woke up it was finally at 100%. I left for class and unplugged my phone at 7:40. 20 minutes later it was down to 47%. Then another 2 hours later, it was at 11%. Obviously it is draining far too fast. Will AT&T replace my battery? Or does it look like I'm gonna have to buy a new one?
What I normally do is charge it to 100% then boot into recovery and wipe battery stats. Reboot and don't unplug the phone until it again says that the battery is full. Then run with it and see if it helps.
Go ask them I don't see why they wouldn't replace the battery, it does sound like its shot that kind of drain isn't normal at all
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I had the same issues with not getting to 100%. Seems like leaving it on the charger for another couple hours (overnight) got it there.
So I went to the AT&T service shop yesterday and she took my battery and put it in a different Galaxy S III and it showed the battery was charged 97%. In my phone, it showed 23%. She told me that it had somthing to do with my phone being rooted. She said the software on my phone was being "tricked" into believing that the battery is a lot less full than it actually is. She told me to unroot my phone and flash it back to stock. So I did that yesterday and it is still no better. I don't know what to try.
Wiping battery stats doesn't help battery life... Something i learned a long time ago with my X10
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Here's a screenshot of my battery stats. Does Android System usually take up this much battery?
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Here's a screenshot of my battery stats. Does Android System usually take up this much battery?
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My Android system is almost always under 15%. Seeing it that high is alarming. I assume you've tried full wiping and changing ROMs?
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My Android system is almost always under 15%. Seeing it that high is alarming. I assume you've tried full wiping and changing ROMs?
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Yep. I must've flashed my phone to stock at least 10 times now. Ive tried rooting and Unrooting, clearing my flash counter, I really don't know what else to do.
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Thought I'd try installing CM10 just to see if there would be any difference. Screen Brightness shows up as my highest percentage on the battery usage and Android System is much lower on the list, but the battery is still not charging or discharging correctly.
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Thought I'd try installing CM10 just to see if there would be any difference. Screen Brightness shows up as my highest percentage on the battery usage and Android System is much lower on the list, but the battery is still not charging or discharging correctly.
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I would unroot and take everything back to stock, then go back to the AT&T store you went to before and show another service rep that the phone is messed up and see if they give you another one.
Good luck
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I would unroot and take everything back to stock, then go back to the AT&T store you went to before and show another service rep that the phone is messed up and see if they give you another one.
Good luck
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Looks like this is my next course of action. Thanks for your help and I'll post back with whatever happens.
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I let it charge all night and when I woke up it was finally at 100%. I left for class and unplugged my phone at 7:40. 20 minutes later it was down to 47%. Then another 2 hours later, it was at 11%. Obviously it is draining far too fast. Will AT&T replace my battery? Or does it look like I'm gonna have to buy a new one?
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mrb1946,
Even though your S3 is reporting percentage values as you stated....the PHYSICAL battery did not drain from a real 100% to a real 47% in 20 minutes. It can't actually physically drain that fast. It would be on FIRE! So, either the calibration of the rom/software or the battery itself somehow messed up.
Also, during that time...was the battery/S3 HOT? That physical evidence would account for some of the drain if it's coming from a rogue app or misbehaving rom component. Did you post a battery drain graph? And were you monitoring the cpu activity during these high drain periods? I mean...periodic checks to see if your CPU is stuck on HIGH freq and if you have any wakelocks shown under the battery graph.
If this problem is still occurring, here's a thread explaining a possible drain from android system. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827087&highlight=android+system
Having a strange charging issue with my phone.
I let my phone charge over night and when I took it off this morning it was at 100%. When I checked it about 15 minutes later it was all the way down to 21%. Is it possible that my battery has gone bad? I can't imagine an app causing that much drain.
Just in case it matters, I am running CM10. I also recently replaced the USB port on my phone because it had become worn and loose. I don't think the issue is with that because the phone recognizes that AC charger and will charge it.
Sounds like a bad battery to me. Does your battery show any signs of swelling?
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Sounds like a bad battery to me. Does your battery show any signs of swelling?
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Looks OK to me.
No way this could be rom related right?
Not that much. I have installed many different roms on many different phones and never got results like that.
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Hmm the plot thickens...
I just charged my phone at work to 100% using a different charger and unplugged it. Its been almost two hours and I have only lost 6%.
Is it possible its the particular charger or could a failing battery cause inconsistent results like this?
Does your phone get really hot on that charger at home. If so it could be a bad charger. Also I have had times when my phone would get a false battery reading. It showed a 98% charge but when I looked in recovery it showed around a 40% charge. When I rebooted it was showing what recovery showed. That actually sound like what happened.
Is this the first time something like this has happened.
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Sounds like you got yerself a case of gremlins
I actually noticed it happening once or twice before but it was at the same time that my charger port was acting all wonky so I just assumed that there wasn't a good connection being made and it had drained on its own.
I'll have to do some more experimentation when I get home. If not I'll have to look for the wipe gremlins option in clockwork
Wishka233 said:
I'll have to do some more experimentation when I get home. If not I'll have to look for the wipe gremlins option in clockwork
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LMAO sounds good. Have you tried wiping battery stats? Maybe something just went wonky.
Wiped battery stats and removed an app that I suspected was draining the battery. Seems to be better now. Thanks!
Apparently I spoke too soon. Battery life on my phone remains inconsistent. Symptoms are as follows:
1. Phone will charge to 100% but lose 50% of battery life within 20 minutes of being taken off the charger OR
2. Phone will appear to be charging (lightning bolt in battery symbol, battery stats states it is charging on AC) but the actual battery reading will remain static or even decrease OR
3. Phone will charge but at an extremely slow rate
Here are the fixes I've tried so far:
1. Wiped Battery Stats
2. Replaced charger port
3. Tried different chargers
4. Tried different wall outlets
5. Purchased new battery
6. Factory wiped phone and installed new rom
Searching google shows that this is not a unique problem to the Incredible 2. However, the culprit is usually a loose charger port which I have already replaced. I am at a complete loss, does anyone have any other ideas??
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Apparently I spoke too soon. Battery life on my phone remains inconsistent. Symptoms are as follows:
1. Phone will charge to 100% but lose 50% of battery life within 20 minutes of being taken off the charger OR
2. Phone will appear to be charging (lightning bolt in battery symbol, battery stats states it is charging on AC) but the actual battery reading will remain static or even decrease OR
3. Phone will charge but at an extremely slow rate
Here are the fixes I've tried so far:
1. Wiped Battery Stats
2. Replaced charger port
3. Tried different chargers
4. Tried different wall outlets
5. Purchased new battery
6. Factory wiped phone and installed new rom
Searching google shows that this is not a unique problem to the Incredible 2. However, the culprit is usually a loose charger port which I have already replaced. I am at a complete loss, does anyone have any other ideas??
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I literally just had the same problem although I didn't buy a new battery but it was when I was flashing cm10.. I tihink it might be rom related. Literally everything u just said happened to me I was trying different chargers and everything as well...I finally pulled the battery for like 20 minutes then restored a back up of miui gb and the wiped cache, battery stats, and dalvik....then I was back in action...hopefully u figure it out hope everything works out on your phone!
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I literally just had the same problem although I didn't buy a new battery but it was when I was flashing cm10.. I tihink it might be rom related. Literally everything u just said happened to me I was trying different chargers and everything as well...I finally pulled the battery for like 20 minutes then restored a back up of miui gb and the wiped cache, battery stats, and dalvik....then I was back in action...hopefully u figure it out hope everything works out on your phone!
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Thanks
Yeah changing the rom might be my next step. I must get to the bottom of this!!
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Yeah changing the rom might be my next step. I must get to the bottom of this!!
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Yeah change the rom...I was trying dkstunnas 9 and 10 cm roms and they both would load then boot off twice then come back on then the battery would get hot then I would go to set it up and literally couldn't take it cuz it was like almost frozen how laggy they were! Back to miui gb til I can figure it out... good luck!
Hi all,
My SGS3 suddenly since last night has not been able to recharge, battery critically low. I have tried a few chargers, and rebooted several times.
Can a battery go bad this fast, because looks like it was charging and running fine the day before.
Thanks
Heeter
Heeter said:
Hi all,
My SGS3 suddenly since last night has not been able to recharge, battery critically low. I have tried a few chargers, and rebooted several times.
Can a battery go bad this fast, because looks like it was charging and running fine the day before.
Thanks
Heeter
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Have you tried loading a stock ROM on there just to be sure it's not software causing harm to your battery? Not sure if your provider will warranty your battery if it is indeed your battery.
Good luck!
Hi, thanks for your response
It actually is stock rom, sorry forgot to mention it. It is rooted, but I never replaced the rom, just put in CWM recovery. I just moved from rogers to virgin mobile last night, just changed sim card. But the multiple reboots killed a maybe already weak battery?
Thanks
Heeter
You should download and install better battery stats, it may help you find out if its being kept awake and draining quickly that way
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Thanks for your response, necrowakker.
I guess that I forgot to mention as well that the phone was shut off during a recharge, and upon powering up, it still it complaining to plug it into a wall charger.
Like it was never plugged in.
Heeter
When you rooted your phone was the kernel changed? .. I've had experience with some custom kernels not reading the battery correctly when off, and only after switching it on it still States its low til a little while later it actually looks like its charging .. ( like the battery level goes up over time) while being off the charger.
If thats not the case, try charging your phone again, but while its on after you know its definitely discharged and not just a ROM memory issue. If you turn it off to keep from getting calls during the night switch on airplane mode to keep that from happening. And check if your battery does on fact charge correctly. ...
After 3 full charges and discharges your battery still gives you bother. Then you can either look into what process it was when you rooted,
if it did change anything more than just giving you more access, or see about a hardware replacement, if it is under warranty, and you can take the flash counter back down to zero (if it counted up) and unroot it.
Also using unsupported chargers over the recommended charge rate for your phone, could have done it damage but that's a long shot with today's safety measures on phones.
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Don't forget to install better battery stats too, just for checking and reporting. Stable ROMs should be able to handle over 300 hours up time before needing a reboot. So using airplane mode should not bother your phone too much
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Thanks for all that info.
The phone has been rooted for at least 6 months now. It has been running very good until this morning. No kernel was changed for the rooting. I just wanted titanium backup to work.
I am still presuming that maybe the battery was weak, and when I was changing out the sim card of the service providers, I did reboot about 15 - 20 times to try to get all the services running, maybe that was enough to kill a battery.
Heeter
I've don't some silly **** with powering and charging and pulling batteries for every reason, I can't see Samsung giving you a bad battery if its worked fine for 6 months, you'd probably know within the first 6 weeks if it was faulty. ...
It may easily be a software memory issue with the battery that's confused it. If you are using cwm as a recovery it may have the erase battery stats option on it, if so give it go,
charge your battery to 100, allow it to drop to zero, or til it shuts down, plug in, power it on allow to boot, and leave to charge to 100,
once that full discharge and recharge is done, your battery has its full stats. If it gives you hassle after this point, think about buying a registered Samsung replacement for your phone.
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Great, thanks will try that.
Heeter
I will start out by saying I have ALMOST tried every trick or hack or mod software related to attempt and resolve this issue.
I will let the screenshots speak for themselves.
I am starting to think there is something physically wrong with this device which is odd because when I opened it up to take the plastic cover off to expose the boards I found no evidence of any liquid intrusion at all.
Only one of the pictures is from a different charge cycle maybe a day or two after the others.
To be specific I am trying to eliminate deep sleep battery drain as much as possible. my htc one x does not drain anywhere near what this galaxy s3 does even though everything is disabled. I've tried different rom / kernel / settings / screen / leds / sync / etc.
Wondering if someone might notice something I've missed here.
thanks!
undivide said:
I will start out by saying I have ALMOST tried every trick or hack or mod software related to attempt and resolve this issue.
I will let the screenshots speak for themselves.
I am starting to think there is something physically wrong with this device which is odd because when I opened it up to take the plastic cover off to expose the boards I found no evidence of any liquid intrusion at all.
Only one of the pictures is from a different charge cycle maybe a day or two after the others.
To be specific I am trying to eliminate deep sleep battery drain as much as possible. my htc one x does not drain anywhere near what this galaxy s3 does even though everything is disabled. I've tried different rom / kernel / settings / screen / leds / sync / etc.
Wondering if someone might notice something I've missed here.
thanks!
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It could be app updates. There was an update to Google drive just a couple days ago and that night after I updated it my battery died overnight when it was nearly fully charged. I cleared the app cache and data and the phone is back to normal. I've seen this happen with a few app updates lately.
Hope this helps.
It could be, and quite possibly is something like what jack man said above. But it could also have to do with the battery itself getting old. Many of these devices have been running for over 2 years now, and the batteries do go bad.
If you really think its a hardware issue though, the only way to know for sure is to flash stock firmware via Odin, factory reset with stock recovery (wipes ALL your apos and data), then test it out over a couple of full cycles without restoring any old data. If you are running anything custom, or restoring backup data, you have way to many "unknowns" to make a call on whether or not it has anything to do with hardware.
BBS is great, but unless you use and post its logs (including kernel wakelocks), it won't really tell you much more than you already know and the logs are much more helpful to us than screenshots.
Mine started doing that a couple weeks ago, for like two days the battery drained like crazy even though it was deep sleeping fine with no wake locks, 16% loss per hour ... I replaced the usb cable I was using to charge it, as it was going bad to where you couldn't touch the phone without hearing the connect/disconnect sounds cycling rapidly, bought a ventev 2.1 amp charger to replace the 0.8 I was using, and did a battery recalibration, now all is well, draining less than 1% per hour with screen off, averaging 1.5% during the day with occasional usage. And that's with the stock battery that's been in it for 18mos.
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brand new OEM battery from amazon.com - I got the phone stock w/ original battery and noticed the drain issue, first thing I did was order a new battery and flashed CM11 to see what would happen.
drain exists all across the board with this one.
I've also tried different chargers and cables, and even the charging dock on my radio.
what re-calibration method did you use?
I let it run dead till it shut itself off, charged to full while powered off, booted back up and wiped the batterystats.bin, then let it drain all the way again before going back to normal charging cycles.
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What is the date on the new oem battery? There are still places with "new" batteries that were actually manufactured 2 years ago. Leaving them shelved for that long they can still go bad. Probably not the caes but figured id mention it anyway.
I will check on that date. I bought an oem samsung charger from bestbuy last night to do a full charge with the phone off. I let it drain down to about 40% from idling and light usage. I've read of people getting better life after using an official charger after several charge cycles.
Ive heard that too. Definitely worth a try, though Ive always thought what matters is the output be the same, but I could be wrong. Never really looked into it.
While trying the new charger for a few cycles you should also set BBS to start monitoring and logging your wakelocks. (Dont forget to tell it to include kernel wakelocks)
This way if you are still having problems youll already have the logs we would end up asking for anyway.
will it save the logs if the phone auto shuts off due to low battery?
I think it should
looks like the logs reset because I have to plug in the phone to get it to boot back up.
either way, the new samsung brand charger doesn't make a bit of difference in terms of battery life, but it does charge the phone a hell of a lot faster haha!
I even did an advance wipe in twrp so I was left with just recovery and download mode so I sideloaded yesterday's CM11 nightly and left it bare with no gapps. also flashed BMS kernel through sideload.
turned everything off (location/wifi) put in airplane mode, and still loosing about 8% an hour with no suspicious wakelocks or "alarms".
what is the difference between the two?
undivide said:
looks like the logs reset because I have to plug in the phone to get it to boot back up.
either way, the new samsung brand charger doesn't make a bit of difference in terms of battery life, but it does charge the phone a hell of a lot faster haha!
I even did an advance wipe in twrp so I was left with just recovery and download mode so I sideloaded yesterday's CM11 nightly and left it bare with no gapps. also flashed BMS kernel through sideload.
turned everything off (location/wifi) put in airplane mode, and still loosing about 8% an hour with no suspicious wakelocks or "alarms".
what is the difference between the two?
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I'm having the same issue.. Pain in the ass.
I've factory reset, clear cache then flashed with Odin the stock 4.4.2 firmwares for Bell, Rogers and Telus, all have the same drain. When I add my google account I get Google play service keep awake issues.
Phone doesn't last 1/2 a day. From 100% it drops about 10%/hour when in airplane mode and 15%/hour is play service is enabled.
I'm blown away by this. The battery isn't the issue, I pulled it and swapped with a known good s3, the drain did not occur on the other s3.
I'd love to get this resolved.. If I can't, on to ebay it goes.
Yeah I'm with you on the eBay thing. At&t maxes trade in at 55 bucks in mint condition. I have to recoup the cost of this new battery from amazon !
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Iz3man said:
I'm having the same issue.. Pain in the ass.
I've factory reset, clear cache then flashed with Odin the stock 4.4.2 firmwares for Bell, Rogers and Telus, all have the same drain. When I add my google account I get Google play service keep awake issues.
Phone doesn't last 1/2 a day. From 100% it drops about 10%/hour when in airplane mode and 15%/hour is play service is enabled.
I'm blown away by this. The battery isn't the issue, I pulled it and swapped with a known good s3, the drain did not occur on the other s3.
I'd love to get this resolved.. If I can't, on to ebay it goes.
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undivide said:
Yeah I'm with you on the eBay thing. At&t maxes trade in at 55 bucks in mint condition. I have to recoup the cost of this new battery from amazon !
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As is in perfect condition unlocked $175.00 buy it now... Should work fine
Try ininstalling updates for google play services. I know ive seen it reported before, i just cant recall if that was the fix. I knoe it was simple though.
undivide said:
looks like the logs reset because I have to plug in the phone to get it to boot back up.
either way, the new samsung brand charger doesn't make a bit of difference in terms of battery life, but it does charge the phone a hell of a lot faster haha!
I even did an advance wipe in twrp so I was left with just recovery and download mode so I sideloaded yesterday's CM11 nightly and left it bare with no gapps. also flashed BMS kernel through sideload.
turned everything off (location/wifi) put in airplane mode, and still loosing about 8% an hour with no suspicious wakelocks or "alarms".
what is the difference between the two?
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Can you get logs of this situation? In your previous case you had an apparent problem with Google Play Services where it would wake your phone up to 32 times per hour. That said, if you still get battery drain like that, after full wipe w/o anything waking your phone up or any wakelock then something is definitely wrong with either your battery or your device.
Iz3man said:
I'm having the same issue.. Pain in the ass.
I've factory reset, clear cache then flashed with Odin the stock 4.4.2 firmwares for Bell, Rogers and Telus, all have the same drain. When I add my google account I get Google play service keep awake issues.
Phone doesn't last 1/2 a day. From 100% it drops about 10%/hour when in airplane mode and 15%/hour is play service is enabled.
I'm blown away by this. The battery isn't the issue, I pulled it and swapped with a known good s3, the drain did not occur on the other s3.
I'd love to get this resolved.. If I can't, on to ebay it goes.
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No BBS = no troubleshooting. From your screenshots one can see you have something keeping your phone awake, but we can't guess what it is.
polobunny said:
Can you get logs of this situation? In your previous case you had an apparent problem with Google Play Services where it would wake your phone up to 32 times per hour. That said, if you still get battery drain like that, after full wipe w/o anything waking your phone up or any wakelock then something is definitely wrong with either your battery or your device.
No BBS = no troubleshooting. From your screenshots one can see you have something keeping your phone awake, but we can't guess what it is.
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What is BBS?
Iz3man said:
What is BBS?
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BetterBatteryStats. It's pretty much the number 1 tool to diagnose battery issues.