Hi, a few days after flashing ICS OrDroidX ROM from Android Revolution HD, I noticed that my phone battery starting to have sharp battery drop, for example after 30 minutes of off screen, it will drop from 97% to 92% based on the log from CurrentWidget. The current drain also extremely high, often stay between 300mA to 600 mA, rarely back to normal with 8mA draining in off screen.
I have done the wiping battery stats from the tutorial, and reflash CM10, however it get back to same battery drain though less severe than before, about 200mA drain on average, the sharp battery percentage drop still there.
Please let me know if there's anything else I can do, my phone is rooted, hence I would try to do anything I can before returning to HTC which I almost certain that they will charge me a lot for replacing a battery. Will battery overheating cause the issue as well? Thanks in advance!
I would say download betterbatterystats from the play store. It can give you information on what is active.
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I would say download betterbatterystats from the play store. It can give you information on what is active.
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Thanks a lot for your advise. I have tried betterbatterystats as suggested, here's the result
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Does it ring any bell that something is wrong? I notice that the awake is somewhat a lot, is that due to kernel issue?
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Thanks a lot for your advise. I have tried betterbatterystats as suggested, here's the result
Does it ring any bell that something is wrong? I notice that the awake is somewhat a lot, is that due to kernel issue?
Thanks!
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According to that graph, your phone hasn't been in deep sleep, ideally you would want to get a similar graph for Screen On and Awake. Go to -> partial wakelocks and give us a screenshot. Also, your signal doesn't seem very good. Do you usually get 1 bar?
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According to that graph, your phone hasn't been in deep sleep, ideally you would want to get a similar graph for Screen On and Awake. Go to -> partial wakelocks and give us a screenshot. Also, your signal doesn't seem very good. Do you usually get 1 bar?
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Thanks a lot for the analysis! Yesterday I decided to reflash CM10 and remove all files from SD, and put them back after flashing. I get a similar graph as the previous graph that I posted.
After reflash
Partial wakelocks (because I did a reboot in between, so it shows only a short period of time, however during the screen on period of time, my battery have a awful sharp drop from 39 % to 29 %, a 10% drop in just a second...)
Shortly after I reflash the ROM and put my SD contents back into the phone, media scanner was a horrible process which hog on my CPU, after clearing the data from 'media storage', did several reboot then the phone only return to normal.
For the signal issue, my room never get full bar, normally would be stay around 2-3 out of 4 bar. Will this affect the battery life?
Now the problem seems like got two parts,
1. Screen off battery still drain quite a lot, though not as much as screen on
2. Screen on battery drain is awful, sometimes 5-10% in a just a second
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I'M using Oxygen 0.2.2 Beta Rom. Yesterday I recalibrate my battery, closed unnecessary programs, turn off wifi, 3g, gps and bluetooth. Morning I checked battery level and shocked battery leves was about %75. I checked if there any memory leaked program but I couldn't find something like that.
Display used battery percantage dramatically high?
What is the problem? Screen was turned off naturally.
'My Battery Kills Me' - sounds like the title of a cheap horror film - LOL
How long is 'overnight'? 8, 10 hours?
25% in that time sounds quite reasonable to me.
@cr1960 25% over 8 hr with wifi and 3g off is not normal and if you experience this i would check what is causing your drain.
@yapay Install current widget, place it on one of the home screens and set it up to wright to the log every 5 min. Then turn your phone in to flight mode overnight and the next day check the log, if you have more than 1 mA usage regularly during the night there is something using to much power. Install a monitoring app from the market and let it run during the night to find out what.
If it's mostly around 1 mA than your problem probably is gone after another charge.
Screen is very high for only 1.5h ish. Looks looks like you have high brightness settings and a lot of white/blue images being displayed.
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'My Battery Kills Me' - sounds like the title of a cheap horror film - LOL
How long is 'overnight'? 8, 10 hours?
25% in that time sounds quite reasonable to me.
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overnight is about 7hr13m
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@cr1960 25% over 8 hr with wifi and 3g off is not normal and if you experience this i would check what is causing your drain.
@yapay Install current widget, place it on one of the home screens and set it up to wright to the log every 5 min. Then turn your phone in to flight mode overnight and the next day check the log, if you have more than 1 mA usage regularly during the night there is something using to much power. Install a monitoring app from the market and let it run during the night to find out what.
If it's mostly around 1 mA than your problem probably is gone after another charge.
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I installed current widget. I will try this this night. Thank you very much for your suggestions.
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Screen is very high for only 1.5h ish. Looks looks like you have high brightness settings and a lot of white/blue images being displayed.
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There is a misunderstood. I checked battery status after woke up and that was 60% display usage. After that I used phone during breakfast and later my battery was 18%.
Something is wrong...
hi all,
i noticed the charge curve on my evo is not linear. at first it's logarithmic and then linear (see pic). everything is off (3g/4g, wifi, bluetooth, sync) while charging (only turning on once in a while to check the %). is this normal?
ive wiped my battery stats and done all that. during use, the battery drops to 60% quickly and then discharges slower. im using deck's gb 1.3 rom, havent changed the kernel, no wake lock issues as far as i can tell.
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I was having the same exact issue. I bought a new battery and figured it must be bad when it would jump from 80 percent to full in a matter of minutes. Then it would discharge to around 70 percent in a matter of an hour. After it hit 70 percent it would discharge more slowly. This was a battery that the Sprint store gave me and I was led to believe it was new. After it did this weird charging discharging issue I went back to sprint and this time received a brand new battery in the package. The young lady behind the counter showed me a box full of all types of used batteries and explained they probably pulled one out of the box of the used batteries. I exchanged my original battery because it wasn't fully charging anymore but the weird charging spike I got with the replacement battery was a first for me. Anyway the "NEW" battery is working like it should so you may be looking at a bad battery.
I know you said you wiped battery stats but did you calibrate the battery at all?
oop. forgot all about this post. thanks for your responses.
i assumed something weird may have happened from my going stock to root so i checked out a friends battery. he never rooted his phone. unfortunately i get the same charge curve.
yes, i have calibrated my battery/ ie, charge to full, wipe stats, then drain phone til shut off.
i will try contacting sprint/htc for a new battery and see how that goes.
anyone else have this issue?
Me, all the time. Have yet to have a different curve ever. Mine happens a little higher though, around 70%. Try battery monitor widget and you can see the actual charging voltage
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I use SetCPU with 3500mAh battery and last 28hrs on single charge
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oop. forgot all about this post. thanks for your responses.
i assumed something weird may have happened from my going stock to root so i checked out a friends battery. he never rooted his phone. unfortunately i get the same charge curve.
yes, i have calibrated my battery/ ie, charge to full, wipe stats, then drain phone til shut off.
i will try contacting sprint/htc for a new battery and see how that goes.
anyone else have this issue?
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After you drain the battery completely, charge it to 100% without unplugging. Recalibrate with that method and see if it helps.
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Ok, take a loot at this screeny. I think my battery is either super decalibrated, or just bad. I've already let it run until the phone turned off, but I don't want to keep doing that as it's bad for the battery. (Super-saturation is not good for li-ion batteries) Any recommendations?
Edit: How about I actually attach the screenshot?
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Edit/edit: I'm charging this while I sleep. I don't know why the battery suddenly jumps up, either.
Have you tried wiping battery stats in recovery?
I know its an option in clockworkmod (under advanced I think)
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What the hell :S that is one confused battery you got there ! It goes down while charging then jumps up after :s is it stock battery ??
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Have you tried wiping battery stats in recovery?
I know its an option in clockworkmod (under advanced I think)
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Yeah, I have. Unfortunately it didn't do anything.
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What the hell :S that is one confused battery you got there ! It goes down while charging then jumps up after :s is it stock battery ??
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I know right!! It's stock. No water damage, nothing like that...
What ROM are you on and has it done this for others? Have you considered clean install?
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What ROM are you on and has it done this for others? Have you considered clean install?
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It's done this for every rom. I'm on virtuous sense 2.0. I clean wipe before every rom, so I don't have the slightest idea what's going on here. Although last night I did test charging my extended battery and it would charge, then drain while still plugged in. I am mega confused.
had the same problem on my stock Dz a few months ago, battery would fluctuate like crazy (would drop to line 15-20% suddenly and then go back to 60% when phone was restarted) wiping battery stats would not fix it. Turned out to be a dud battery htc replaced it and all is fine.
If you want a more technical explanation every battery has a sensor in it which reports voltages to the phone which the phone then interprets as percentage battery left corresponding to the values stored in the battery stats file. Our battery sensor is malfunctioning and reporting weird values to the phone which the phone is showing as fluctuating battery level.
Hope that helps.
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had the same problem on my stock Dz a few months ago, battery would fluctuate like crazy (would drop to line 15-20% suddenly and then go back to 60% when phone was restarted) wiping battery stats would not fix it. Turned out to be a dud battery htc replaced it and all is fine.
If you want a more technical explanation every battery has a sensor in it which reports voltages to the phone which the phone then interprets as percentage battery left corresponding to the values stored in the battery stats file. Our battery sensor is malfunctioning and reporting weird values to the phone which the phone is showing as fluctuating battery level.
Hope that helps.
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Gracias, dudeman. But I wonder why my [almost] new mugen-power extended battery does it too? Probably just a cheap battery.
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Gracias, dudeman. But I wonder why my [almost] new mugen-power extended battery does it too? Probably just a cheap battery.
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A new battery act like this ? Strongly suggest u to return it ...
Last night I went to sleep with about 50% battery left. This morning I woke up to see my phone dead. Not sure what happened. The graph is like a straight diagonal line down over the last 4 hours even though it shows screen and everything are off.
I recently installed Light Flow Lite to manage the LED notification. Could this cause the problem?
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While I would generally say your phone must've been awake with the screen off...your graph shows it deep sleeping like a champ.
While I personally can't comment on light flow...
I remember a few users narrowing their battery problems down to that app.
So...potentially?
Though...I can't see how it would cause problems without keeping the phone awake.
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Also...wifi should significantly save battery.
Turn that on when it can be used.
It seems you turned it off when you went to sleep...
But the graph, again, isn't showing signal drips either. Which it should if that was a major battery drain culprit.
Odd stuff man.
Probably just a fluke?!
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Odd stuff man.
Probably just a fluke?!
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That's about the same conclusion I came to when I see those pictures. Everything looks just fine, but the battery just fell off of a cliff.
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While I would generally say your phone must've been awake with the screen off...your graph shows it deep sleeping like a champ.
While I personally can't comment on light flow...
I remember a few users narrowing their battery problems down to that app.
So...potentially?
Though...I can't see how it would cause problems without keeping the phone awake.
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Also...wifi should significantly save battery.
Turn that on when it can be used.
It seems you turned it off when you went to sleep...
But the graph, again, isn't showing signal drips either. Which it should if that was a major battery drain culprit.
Odd stuff man.
Probably just a fluke?!
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IME wifi drains more power when it's on because it tends to wake the phone up a lot more often than when wifi is off.
That's weird though OP - I use Light Flow with no problems, have for months.
Jubakuba said:
Also...wifi should significantly save battery.
Turn that on when it can be used.
It seems you turned it off when you went to sleep...
But the graph, again, isn't showing signal drips either. Which it should if that was a major battery drain culprit.
Odd stuff man.
Probably just a fluke?!
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I am baffled too. Actually, I didn't turn off the wifi. Wifi on sleep is set to "only when plugged in", but I found this setting never actually worked ever since I manually updated to 4.04. My phone always keeps wifi on regardless... So the fact that wifi is off in this shot is actually unusual for me. (Maybe because I am still using the old radio?)
Signal is really good in my house. Mobile data is off.
The thing about it being the fluke... This is is actually the second time I caught my phone doing this. Yesterday, I was out and saw a sharp drop in battery while it was supposed to be sleeping. I started using the phone, and the graph levelled out again (you can actually see this in the graph i posted). So I feel like an app was keeping it awake, but I can't tell from the stats...
I saw a post about this, but I can not find it now.
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The android system % is really high. For reference the screen time is at 2h 58min in that shot.
The post I saw about it mentioned a patch that fixed that in some phones? Just curious if there is something I can do to fix it and improve the battery life further.
This is on jedi xp9 with saber kernel.
What were you doing with the phone in that one hour? If nothing serious you have a battery leak problem. 31% for one hour is just not right. I used to install a calendar widget that causes leak like crazy, even after I un installed it. Had to do a hard reset to fix it.
1hr? The battery was at 1d 11h and some change, but yeah I am prolly going to do a clean install. I'm thinking maybe my titanium backup is goofed up.
Just wasn't sure if there was a system patch that was for that, I thought I had read that somewhere.
Its just the only thing using battery. That's good. Youre getting phenomenal battery life. Trust me. When I posted my last message I didn't see a pic of your time stamp. Do math on total CPU usage of the android system. Also Google backup transport uses a good chunk. Disable that if you don't want it. (When flashing a new rom Google transports your old backup onto your device)
Anyhow here you go. Do the math and see how much battery life to CPU usage I would get verse what you got. If you are never using your phone the is and or system will eventually kill it. Using a larger percentage. It looks like you aren't even using your phone. 36 hours of battery is insane. Also note my screen was on just a little over 3 hours. (At minimal brightness always)
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1hr? The battery was at 1d 11h and some change, but yeah I am prolly going to do a clean install. I'm thinking maybe my titanium backup is goofed up.
Just wasn't sure if there was a system patch that was for that, I thought I had read that somewhere.
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Sorry my bad. But it still doesn't look right to me that your system is burning more battery than the screen.
It seems like your phone was idle for the most part of that battery time. If so, then it's normal to show more android system usage percentage than other things, since there are background processes running. If that's the case, your battery drain is good, especially if you're 4g was on the entire time.
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It seems like your phone was idle for the most part of that battery time. If so, then it's normal to show more android system usage percentage than other things, since there are background processes running. If that's the case, your battery drain is good, especially if you're 4g was on the entire time.
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Yeah I never turn the 4g off. Guess I was just miss understanding the post.
Yes the phone was idle a lot, normally is on my days off. During my work week im looking at 18-20 hours getting me to 60-40% and me charging it it before bed. Being in reinforced concrete buildings 2 stories underground causing me to the have a poor signal I figured that was pretty decent.
Anyway thank you guys for the information.