Hello all,
I recently updated my Galaxy Nexus to Bixie's stock 4.2.2 and my phone is going nuts. First of all it's draining battery really quickly, even though I'd wiped caches and essentially done a factory reset. When I plug it in to charge it takes a minute or so before the "charge" notification kicks in. The opposite occurs when I unplug it.
But, by far the CRAZIEST thing it does is once the battery hits 15% I start getting a battery low notification/popup like mad. It essentially spams the hell out of me to the point that the phone is utterly and completely unusable. I dismiss, 2 seconds later it pops up, rinse and repeat.
Oh also, the battery usage meter where it tells you how long it's been on battery and breaks down the apps that are using how much battery. That value never changes at all.
Please help!
Of course, thanks to all those that even attempt to give an appropriate solution.
ellimistx99 said:
Hello all,
I recently updated my Galaxy Nexus to Bixie's stock 4.2.2 and my phone is going nuts. First of all it's draining battery really quickly, even though I'd wiped caches and essentially done a factory reset. When I plug it in to charge it takes a minute or so before the "charge" notification kicks in. The opposite occurs when I unplug it.
But, by far the CRAZIEST thing it does is once the battery hits 15% I start getting a battery low notification/popup like mad. It essentially spams the hell out of me to the point that the phone is utterly and completely unusable. I dismiss, 2 seconds later it pops up, rinse and repeat.
Oh also, the battery usage meter where it tells you how long it's been on battery and breaks down the apps that are using how much battery. That value never changes at all.
Please help!
Of course, thanks to all those that even attempt to give an appropriate solution.
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Okay so I reset back to factory. Unrooted, Locked, and installed a factory image from Google. Then it forced me to updated to 4.2.2. Now the notification issue is gone, BUT the phone NEVER SLEEPS. I press the power to turn off the screen and immediately it turns back on... anyone have any ideas?
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Ok, so I rooted the phone yesterday, and installed a custom boot animation, but that's all I have done. For some reason, Every time I reboot the phone, My battery stats reset, so when i turn the phone off, then back on, my battery usage says "unplugged for 32 seconds" or something similar to that. Any idea why it's reading that I just unplugged the phone???
Also, I have juice defender installed, and all of a sudden it is reading ridiculously high numbers, like it's increased my battery x9.74. It never usually reads higher than x1.74 or so. I don't know whats going on. Any ideas?
The Black Droid said:
Ok, so I rooted the phone yesterday, and installed a custom boot animation, but that's all I have done. For some reason, Every time I reboot the phone, My battery stats reset, so when i turn the phone off, then back on, my battery usage says "unplugged for 32 seconds" or something similar to that. Any idea why it's reading that I just unplugged the phone??
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It will say that regardless whether you unplugged the phone from the charger or if you reboot the phone. It is clearing your battery "statistics" because you shut off the phone...
g00s3y said:
It will say that regardless whether you unplugged the phone from the charger or if you reboot the phone. It is clearing your battery "statistics" because you shut off the phone...
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Thanks for clearing that up. I was unaware it reset every time the phone reboots
The Black Droid said:
Thanks for clearing that up. I was unaware it reset every time the phone reboots
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ah yeah, but it's not that big of a deal.
It's on a different level than the battery stats that you wipe in Recovery, but it can be a bit of a pain if you're closely looking at your battery level and you can't know for sure how long since you actually charged it.
I'm looking for any ideas for the problem I'm having on my G2. I'm afraid it's a hardware problem and not much I can do about it.
I started having problems after upgrading from CM 7.1 to 7.2, but I don't think it was related to the upgrade. I started having battery draining problems, the phone took forever to get fully charged, and car mode would automatically start sometimes when plugging up or unplugging the charger. I cleaned the usb port with alcohol (with battery removed), let dry, and restarted. Now I don't have the car mode problem and the battery problem is somewhat better.
My problem now is that the phone will just die when I'm using it. Usually when I'm using the browser. I'll be scrolling on a page and the phone will just turn itself off. Like the battery died. I can turn the phone back on and it will start up, get all the way started back up, but while it is still loading the home screen widgets, it will go off again. I can repeat this several times. The only way to recover is to plug in the charger. I don't have to hit the power button again, just plugging in the charger will start up recovery mode automatically, I'll choose reboot and the phone will start normally then and stay on.
The phone never dies when I'm not using it. I'll carry it all day, making phone calls on and off, and it'll stay on with no problem. Mostly, I only have the problem when using the browser. Also had the problem while using my newsreader. Once during playing a game. But if I start up browsing the internet, it doesn't take long before it will turn itself off. A matter of a couple of minutes. I don't have the problem with reading emails with K9. Don't have a problem in downloading from the internet such as podcasts. Don't have a problem in sending text messages. Don't recall it shutting down while using the Facebook app. After putting up with this for a week, some troubleshooting and observations.
I never have this problem if the charger is plugged in. Only when it is running fully from the battery.
I've tried swapping to a different battery.
Turned down the overclocking with no difference.
I've changed to other recoveries, CM 7.2, CM 7.1, a CM 7.1 that I was running in May. No difference.
I've swapped memory cards.
I've reset battery stats.
No difference if running on wifi or just data.
Clearing caches made no difference.
So, I start thinking it must be a hardware problem, but then why does it only crop up when internet browsing. Must be power related since plugging in the charger makes it go away, but why does it not have a problem with using the phone in other ways?
Any suggestions on what I could try?
You could try to see if there is too much voltage drop when you start something power-hungry. Use a battery voltage logger and post the results. Start logging, let the phoneidle for a minute and then start browsing. Even if the phone shut off, the log should still be there after rebooting.
Thanks for the idea. I can't locate a logger that looks like it would work. It would have to capture a quick drop in voltage that is momentary. This problem happens even on a full battery and when the phone come back on (either momentarily or after a recovery reboot) the battery level is unchanged.
You might try as well an other way: first idle, then gradually step up to a more power hungry app to see when the problem actually happens. I have no other ideas...
Make sure that you dont have any contact with the battery and the door.
Normally batteries are covered with an aluminum wrap, and can cause short-cuts with the phone itself.
I searched it for a while with the galilio batteries.
You can try to put some saranhwrap around the battery.
I have the same problem with two different batteries. But I'm ready to try that too.
Battery graph
So here's a graph of my battery status. Long time to charge to 100%. Discharges pretty rapidly. Each downturn ends in the phone turning itself off. Notice that at 7:30 today, it turned itself off, I did a recovery reboot, then noticed it wasn't charging very well (green line turns to blue but doesn't increase), then I did a manual reboot and when the phone restarted, it showed the battery was at 100% charge (from about 60% before the reboot).
What do you think - hardware or software?
oVeRdOsE. said:
Make sure that you dont have any contact with the battery and the door.
Normally batteries are covered with an aluminum wrap, and can cause short-cuts with the phone itself.
I searched it for a while with the galilio batteries.
You can try to put some saranhwrap around the battery.
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Well, I just took the cover off for awhile and tried it. Played crosswords (Shortz) for awhile with no problems. Started my newsreader (Newsrob) and it shut itself off in about 15 seconds. So, no short to the battery cover.
Same thing is happening to me. I use poweramp or the browser and the G2 just shuts off. Then I restart it and it tells me that the battery is low. Once I shut it down and reboot in recovery and wipe the battery cache it's back to it's normal battery level. I disabled data and set my phone for 2G networks only and it didn't shut off after. I'm assuming this is a wireless issue? I'm running mimicry 1.3.0 on my G2.
Had the same problem. Swapped out batteries and problem gone.
Sent from my HTC Vision using xda app-developers app
Did you swap the battery and immediately have no further problems? I tried swapping my battery already and still have the same problem.
Hi! I was wondering if this is normal for the GNexus:
When my phone is out of battery, it shuts down in the act, like suddenly the screen goes off and that's it, no "Shutting down..." message or whatever.
I used to have a Moto Defy and it didn't turn off that way... actually... none of my past phones did, but this is happening to me with GNexus since I bought it, with stock ROM, so I never really cared (now I am).
I'm using CM11 now with stock kernel but as I said before, this happens to me since I bought it so I don't think is ROM/Kernel-related.
I don't think it's good for the phone to shutdown that way... so if there's a way to fix it please share it with me.
Oh and BTW... if I hold the power button and then select "Turn off..." it shuts down "correctly" (with the "Shutting down..." message).
And just in case... I'm not saying that my battery drains too quickly or something like that, I'm just asking if is it normal to shutdown that way when the battery is empty.
I don't think it's normal, it should still show shutting down message, but then again I rarely let the battery go down to 7%, usually get it on the charger after the 14% left low battery warning.
isajoo said:
I don't think it's normal, it should still show shutting down message, but then again I rarely let the battery go down to 7%, usually get it on the charger after the 14% left low battery warning.
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Well... is not like I'm doing it on purpose... after some time my battery starts to show the % the wrong way, so sometimes it shuts down before reaching 10 or 15% (for example).
Thanks for sharing your experience!
I have no idea why some person thought it was a good idea to program a feature to turn your device off randomly. My one year old woke me up this morning early, I went to check my phone to see what time it was but the screen wouldn't turn on.
I left it on my nightstand with well over 50% battery when I went to sleep, no apps running like usual. My device will lose 3-4% battery over night, so no big deal at ~50% battery overnight.
Continuing with the issue, I booted the phone up to see if the battery had drained or something but it was still at 50%. After it fully booted a message popped up stating something to the fact of:
"Wondering why your phone turned off? It was turned off to rest. Your phone needs to rest to continue operating at optimum levels. Using high draining applications like navigation and video streaming can hinder system performance"
Or some kind of BS like that. I wish at 3:30am I had the forethought to screenshot the message...
Has anyone else had this happen? The thing is, I barely used my phone all day. Literally a few minutes of talking, few texts, took a few pictures and browsed a few articles using chrome.
I rely on my phone for my alarm so if this randomly happens that could be bad if my daughter sleeps in!
BTW, I'm running @santod040 stock rooted 5.0.2 full version.
Mine has done the same a few times since the OTA. I'm 100% stock
Nice when you rely on your phone for an alarm, right?
Have same problem. Has happened about 3 times since lollipop update. Fully stock. I tried cache wipe but that hasn't fixed it.
I am 100% stock as well, unrooted and S-ON. This has happened about once per week. Phone shuts down by itself and displays a message upon restart (see attached).
I've asked HTC support and they've had me try safe mode and wiping cache partition, though it sounds like it's a more widespread problem than something caused by a third-party app.
So, I got a new phone...Galaxy S8+. After like dozens of attempts to factory reset my 360, it finally booted correctly. Now when I try syncing things, nothing happens. In the Wear App, I don't even have the option to select a watch face. After undocking the watch (which is fully charged), it just shuts off until I redock it, at which point it boots up as it was turned off. Is this thing toast, or is there a trick to this? Never had this many issues with this before.
Anyone?
agentfazexx said:
After undocking the watch (which is fully charged), it just shuts off until I redock it, at which point it boots up as it was turned off. Is this thing toast, or is there a trick to this? Never had this many issues with this before.
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Mean battery is dead if can not power the boot
dersie said:
Mean battery is dead if can not power the boot
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Battery is at 100%... It boots just fine.
agentfazexx said:
Battery is at 100%... It boots just fine.
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Ah ? thinking you said : After undocking the watch (which is fully charged), it just shuts off until I redock it,
so when watch is not on charger it shutdown ?
You're misunderstanding my issue. Nothing is syncing to the watch, and the Wear app gives me no option to pick a watch face.
I tried resurrecting this again, but it's still having issues. Popped it on the charger, and it acted like it was going to start up, but went into a charging screen. Eventually it'll boot back up, but when I swipe down and start swiping right to get to settings to do a factory reset, it just turns off after a couple swipes. Is this thing just dead? Battery is over 60%.
Your battery is bad. It shows good battery % numbers, but it can't provide enough current to keep the watch running when off the charger.
Replace the battery and it will fix some, if not all, of your problems.