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Help with my e4gt the battery drains 3hr

Where to begin....my phone would last about 9hr before this issues started happening. For some odd reason my indicator LED light won't shut off I had to download an app to turn it off. When I try to turn of the phone It will automatically turn on again but before it does it goes to the charging screen even thought the phone is not plug to an outlet. It all started happening after I used my friends LG charger i'm thinking maybe I damage something.
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I rooted as you can see I have try two different roms the result were the same I will UN root tomorrow and flash it to stock will updated

flash completely back to stock with no apps. Install apps one by one to see which is the culprit
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Judging by the screenies it looks like the battery is to blame. Those spikes are definetly not normal.
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D1rk said:
Judging by the screenies it looks like the battery is to blame. Those spikes are definetly not normal.
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Definitely not normal. Get BetterBatteryStats and see if you have a wakelock
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D1rk said:
Judging by the screenies it looks like the battery is to blame. Those spikes are definetly not normal.
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Looks like the phone isn't correctly reading the battery.
However, the symptom of the phone going into charging when off when it's not plugged in (phone thinking it's charging) is pretty common with the Samsung Replenish, and is almost always an indicator of a bad charging port. This could also explain the LED not going out (ie charging). We see it in our store alot. Your battery dying in 3 hours would make sense, as the phone isn't charging the battery correctly in this scenario.
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Hey kartiel, hope you can figure it the problem. I would be frustrated if I were you. unroot and bring to sprint maybe they will replace the phone
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squshy 7 said:
Looks like the phone isn't correctly reading the battery.
However, the symptom of the phone going into charging when off when it's not plugged in (phone thinking it's charging) is pretty common with the Samsung Replenish, and is almost always an indicator of a bad charging port. This could also explain the LED not going out (ie charging). We see it in our store alot. Your battery dying in 3 hours would make sense, as the phone isn't charging the battery correctly in this scenario.
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I agree.. it seems to be the charging port on the phone. My wife's phone had a very similar problem. Her screen would turn on by itself, the led light would stay on all day, and battery only lasted about 2 hours. It would always freeze up too once in a while and when you turn it back on, the battery drained like 20% in a span of 5 mins. Her battery stats look very similar to yours, with all the spikes. On top of that, her phone kept going into driving mode or voice talk randomly. Her phone was rooted with the auto root procedure. I wanted to back up her phone with TiB regularly and put on adblock.. but otherwise everything was stock on her phone.
What I ended up doing was a factory reset. That cleared up the freezing issue and the screen turning on and off, but the battery stuff was still acting the same. I did a battery pull over night and cleaned the contacts of the charging port of the phone with a very small q-tip and toothpick. I also cleaned the battery terminals as well for good measure. Put the battery back on the phone and charged to full while the phone was off. First thing I did when I turned on the phone was to download the battery calibrator app and run the calibration. Her phone has been back to normal now for almost 3 weeks.

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I agree.. it seems to be the charging port on the phone. My wife's phone had a very similar problem. Her screen would turn on by itself, the led light would stay on all day, and battery only lasted about 2 hours. It would always freeze up too once in a while and when you turn it back on, the battery drained like 20% in a span of 5 mins. Her battery stats look very similar to yours, with all the spikes. On top of that, her phone kept going into driving mode or voice talk randomly. Her phone was rooted with the auto root procedure. I wanted to back up her phone with TiB regularly and put on adblock.. but otherwise everything was stock on her phone.
What I ended up doing was a factory reset. That cleared up the freezing issue and the screen turning on and off, but the battery stuff was still acting the same. I did a battery pull over night and cleaned the contacts of the charging port of the phone with a very small q-tip and toothpick. I also cleaned the battery terminals as well for good measure. Put the battery back on the phone and charged to full while the phone was off. First thing I did when I turned on the phone was to download the battery calibrator app and run the calibration. Her phone has been back to normal now for almost 3 weeks.
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Are you in a damp/humid area? I know my phone did that sometimes too during humid summer days. It's completely fine in any other condition though, especially during this colder winter.

beserker15 said:
Are you in a damp/humid area? I know my phone did that sometimes too during humid summer days. It's completely fine in any other condition though, especially during this colder winter.
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i'm not in a damp/humid area, my wife and I have the same phone. Mine has been okay with minimal issues. Although now that I think about it, she did spill some water on the table with her phone near by a week before her phone start acting up. She had a TPU case which protected it from most of the water, but maybe some of it got in through the headphone jack or charging port??
to the OP: maybe you can try this battery calibration method as well. Some people have reported success with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312273

[Q] Battery or Phone Problem? is making me crazy

Almost every week i have this problem with the phone acting a bit weird. First the phone start slowing down or kind of frizzing, next i turn the phone off...and on again. Suddenly my battery goes from 50's charge to 7% and the phone message said i need to charge the battery. I would turn off the phone again...take the battery out for few 10 seconds or more, put it back and restart the phone? now the meter says i have about 25% charge...i plug it to the charger and wait until is 100% and then seems to work fine for another week until the same thing happen again! Now im on FD16 but this problem has been occurring since i bought the phone 6 months ago on stock, so i think is not flashing new modems or kernels. a bad battery ? Does anybody have any idea how troubleshoot this a little further or has experimented this phone behavior. Or should go back to stock and send this baby to Sprint to try to get a replacement?
I just got to the point that i cant deal with this anymore since i dont know when it is going to happen and may not have a charger at hand!
Please i need some suggestions !

gerstoscar said:
Almost every week i have this problem with the phone acting a bit weird. First the phone start slowing down or kind of frizzing, next i turn the phone off...and on again. Suddenly my battery goes from 50's charge to 7% and the phone message said i need to charge the battery. I would turn off the phone again...take the battery out for few 10 seconds or more, put it back and restart the phone? now the meter says i have about 25% charge...i plug it to the charger and wait until is 100% and then seems to work fine for another week until the same thing happen again! Now im on FD16 but this problem has been occurring since i bought the phone 6 months ago on stock, so i think is not flashing new modems or kernels. a bad battery ? Does anybody have any idea how troubleshoot this a little further or has experimented this phone behavior. Or should go back to stock and send this baby to Sprint to try to get a replacement?
I just got to the point that i cant deal with this anymore since i dont know when it is going to happen and may not have a charger at hand!
Please i need some suggestions !
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Anybody that can help ???

I have the same issue, is not the battery i tried a few batts and still reboots, im gonna wait for the official ics update to see if is just a bug or a deffective phone.

The battery percentage always decreases dramatically everytime you reboot. Android just doesnt read correctly after rebooting.
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MajorTankz said:
The battery percentage always decreases dramatically everytime you reboot. Android just doesnt read correctly after rebooting.
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The only time my battery would drastically drop after a reboot was when I rooted my phone wrong and it would reboot about 10 times a day and when it did I would lose a good 50% of the battery. Now if I reboot I lose 1-2% even if I flash a new rom. On to this guys issue I would say if it has been doing it since you bought it, it is likely a hardware issue with the phone. My old Evo used to do that. I just ended up selling it because I wasnt sure if it was a problem with the phone or just the fact that, that phone was slow as **** anyway!

[Q] screen flickers phone shuts off...repeat...help please

I was on codename for a bit but I noticed the battery wouldnt last very long so i flashed frankenstein soon after that i noticed my phone would just cut off when i turned it back on the signal indicator would be x'ed out and my battery would show 2% just after being at 90...when i pulled the battery and then turned the phone on again the battery would show 85% and my phone would work fine and then 5 min later my screen would flicker and my phone would turn off when i turned it back on it did the samething and it would keep doing it until i pulled the battery and then waited for a few min...then it would start doing the flicker and shut off thing...
i odined back to GB and it did the same thing
if someone could provide some insight i would greatly appreciate it thanks

lunchboxVA said:
I was on codename for a bit but I noticed the battery wouldnt last very long so i flashed frankenstein soon after that i noticed my phone would just cut off when i turned it back on the signal indicator would be x'ed out and my battery would show 2% just after being at 90...when i pulled the battery and then turned the phone on again the battery would show 85% and my phone would work fine and then 5 min later my screen would flicker and my phone would turn off when i turned it back on it did the samething and it would keep doing it until i pulled the battery and then waited for a few min...then it would start doing the flicker and shut off thing...
i odined back to GB and it did the same thing
if someone could provide some insight i would greatly appreciate it thanks
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Dd you do a clean install exactly the way the op says? Go do that then come back. Those are 2 very differently based ROMs

yes I did do a clean install following all given instructions including using the el26 kernel

lunchboxVA said:
yes I did do a clean install following all given instructions including using the el26 kernel
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Redownload the ROM again then it might be a bad download. Also do it from a computer not your phone.

still no luck...i odined all the way back to eg30...with the factory restore provided by sfhub <mite have the name wrong> it was working for awhile but then it started happening again...the screen would flicker signal would drop almost like back in the los days then my phone would shut off when i restarted it the battery reading would be 0% after being at 90 and then when i did a battery pull the battery life would go back up to what it was before it errored out and after a few min the screen would flicker the signal would drop out and everything would repeat again

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still no luck...i odined all the way back to eg30...with the factory restore provided by sfhub <mite have the name wrong> it was working for awhile but then it started happening again...the screen would flicker signal would drop almost like back in the los days then my phone would shut off when i restarted it the battery reading would be 0% after being at 90 and then when i did a battery pull the battery life would go back up to what it was before it errored out and after a few min the screen would flicker the signal would drop out and everything would repeat again
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Is it a stock battery? I would take it to sprint
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Did you figure out what was wrong with your phone?
My international GSII is doing the exact same thing. Screen and lights flicker then the phone shuts off. After a restart the battery is at 0 or 1% and shuts off immediately. Sometimes after a reboot it will have the correct amount of battery and work fine.

Check your battery compartment is clean and the contacts are ok and clean on both the battery and the phone. Also make sure the battery cover is keeping the battery snug. Maybe put a piece of a business card above the battery to make certain it is not able to jostle during use.
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You may try odining EL29 full build with regular Odin and checking clear phone efs. This clears the video cache on the phone and may help solve the issue. I do this myself every so often as a preventative measure.

tdunham said:
Check your battery compartment is clean and the contacts are ok and clean on both the battery and the phone. Also make sure the battery cover is keeping the battery snug. Maybe put a piece of a business card above the battery to make certain it is not able to jostle during use.
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Contacts are clean and battery is snug. I bought a replacement battery and have been using it for the past 30 min or so - so far so good.
scarmon25 said:
You may try odining EL29 full build with regular Odin and checking clear phone efs. This clears the video cache on the phone and may help solve the issue. I do this myself every so often as a preventative measure.
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If my new battery doesn't fix it I'll Odin the Rom and Kernel to something safe later tonight. Thanks for the EFS tip! :good:

Just a quick update for anyone that might run into this problem later. I bought a new Anker 1750 mah battery and not only is my battery life back to normal (maybe even better), but no random power offs! Looks like my original Samsung battery took a crap.

I'd take the battery back to a Sprint store. They are designed to last at least one year so they might test it and give you a new one. The factory replacement batteries are expensive.

DataHawg said:
I'd take the battery back to a Sprint store. They are designed to last at least one year so they might test it and give you a new one. The factory replacement batteries are expensive.
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$17 on Amazon
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If it is under a year old they will give you a new battery. It's great having a second battery anyway. My phone was doing the same thing and it was also the battery.
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hey everybody thanks for all the replies sorry it took so long to update...and i really wished i had read the battery comments becuz it woulda saved me the huge ordeal i went through
pretty much what happened is I called sprint they sent me a phone in the mail becuz ilive outside the 50mi radius from a service center....the phone they sent me did the same thing so i called back and they sent me another phone....the phone they sent me did the same thing so i called back and got a new phone...the phone they sent me started doing the same hting....so i called again and i asked if it could b the battery the tech was a real **** and was like its not ur battery becuz its holding a charge and it powers the phone on so they sent me a new phone....the phone they sent did the same thing and before they would send me a new phone they made me drive the 50mi in to get my phone looked at the guy checked my phone for 5min and told me i needed a new phone....so i called sprint again and my options were to get **** phones or get a white e4gt...i rrrreeeaaalllyyy didnt want a white one but it was my only choice so they sent me the phone in white and with a new battery and so far so good

So it's definitely a battery issue? cause my phone just started doing the same thing about a week ago. (very Annoying)
I thought maybe it was the rom, but I have installed 3 different roms and they all do the same thing.
Ordering a new battery now, Thanks for the info.

Glad to see this old post helped someone else it was defiantly the battery no problems since...make sure you hit the thanks button if the post fixed your problem
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[Q] HELP! Phone shutting down not staying on

Hey guys, this started happening a few days ago. Basically, the phone screen will flicker a bit and then the phone will shut off. When I try to reboot it will generally do the same thing almost instantly after the ROM is finished loading. If I leave it alone for about a half hour and try again it will work for a few minutes before doing the same thing. Meanwhile, every reboot the battery meter shows it lower and lower until eventually the phone shuts off due to low battery.
However, when I plug it in, it'll say it's at about half battery life and the problem NEVER happens while plugged in.
Is this a battery problem, hardware, or software?
(It's happened on every ROM I've tried the past few days)
PLEASE HELP!

gmap516 said:
Hey guys, this started happening a few days ago. Basically, the phone screen will flicker a bit and then the phone will shut off. When I try to reboot it will generally do the same thing almost instantly after the ROM is finished loading. If I leave it alone for about a half hour and try again it will work for a few minutes before doing the same thing. Meanwhile, every reboot the battery meter shows it lower and lower until eventually the phone shuts off due to low battery.
However, when I plug it in, it'll say it's at about half battery life and the problem NEVER happens while plugged in.
Is this a battery problem, hardware, or software?
(It's happened on every ROM I've tried the past few days)
PLEASE HELP!
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Does it happen when your in recovery as well or just when your in the rom?
Reason being, can always factory wipe, and all that.. See if it happens again.. If it does.. (Sad to say) Odin to stock. Test then. (that will eliminate phone if it works with complete stock.

Read here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1854566 the title of that thread is almost word for word your problem. It was posted in general if you had searched before posting you wouldn't have needed to start a new thread and might have had your answer instead of waiting for someone to hand deliver it to you.
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It's probably, most definitely, your battery dude, it's probably dead... like the man said check out that thread. (OoOh snap! that just rhymed)
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Battery goes from 50% to 0

Hey guys so as of a few weeks ago. my phone will be fine all day. then around 50% battery if I do anything, including opening a text message to watching a youtube video. The phone dies immediately, like boom black screen dead. if I turn it back on, it boots then show the shutting down and turns off. However I know it still has a charge because I can let it sit in recovery for another couple hours with no problem. although, TWRP 2.5 wont show me a battery percentage like it usually does. any ideas?

Chyrio said:
Hey guys so as of a few weeks ago. my phone will be fine all day. then around 50% battery if I do anything, including opening a text message to watching a youtube video. The phone dies immediately, like boom black screen dead. if I turn it back on, it boots then show the shutting down and turns off. However I know it still has a charge because I can let it sit in recovery for another couple hours with no problem. although, TWRP 2.5 wont show me a battery percentage like it usually does. any ideas?
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Might havea defective unit. Take it back to Sprint and see what they say.

I had the same problem I just replaced the battery myself, if you have the protection plan it should get you a new phone. If not easy fix order a new battery and put it in yourself takes all of 2 minutes.

natelw said:
I had the same problem I just replaced the battery myself, if you have the protection plan it should get you a new phone. If not easy fix order a new battery and put it in yourself takes all of 2 minutes.
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Ya sprint won't give me a new phone. I have taken the phone apart before. I'll get a new battery. Thanks guys
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