****ty battery - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Time to replace a battery, or is something wrong here?
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Using android is like changing a new phone every month!

Better check you apps behaviour and syncs with BetterBatteryStatts and cpu spy for deep sleep. No way a battery drains that fast normaly.

Interesting thing is, I just did a full wipe/factory restore, couldn't be an issue with my apps, could it? Gonna go log my battery in the mean while
Using android is like changing a new phone every month!

Could it be due to this process "audioOut_2"?
Dont have vibes installed though, yet somehow this is preventing phone from sleeping.
Will try with second handset to see if this is an issue with rebooting phone on silent mode
Using android is like changing a new phone every month!

iamwozy said:
Time to replace a battery, or is something wrong here?
Using android is like changing a new phone every month!
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how many screen time? have you put you phone in a hot zone? have yoy been playing while charging for a long time? i say it because it is known that some samsung batteries inflate themselves and decrease the battery life to like about 15 minutes so look if the battery is normal or a bit rounded (fat battery)
hope it helped,
bests
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aka_sirok said:
how many screen time? have you put you phone in a hot zone? have yoy been playing while charging for a long time? i say it because it is known that some samsung batteries inflate themselves and decrease the battery life to like about 15 minutes so look if the battery is normal or a bit rounded (fat battery)
hope it helped,
bests
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Hot zone meaning? I haven't been abusing my phone, but when I play some games/surf the Web, the battery seems to die at almost twice the speed it did before.
If buying a new battery would solve this issue, then I would buy without hesitation! I'm just scared that the battery condition is not the main issue with this drain.
Currently doing a full drain/charge to recalibrate the battery
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iamwozy said:
Hot zone meaning? I haven't been abusing my phone, but when I play some games/surf the Web, the battery seems to die at almost twice the speed it did before.
If buying a new battery would solve this issue, then I would buy without hesitation! I'm just scared that the battery condition is not the main issue with this drain.
Currently doing a full drain/charge to recalibrate the battery
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by hot zone I mean let the phone in the sun or somewhere when the temperature is high. I recommend you to check your battery physically, I mean open the back of the phone and see if the battery is in the same condition as when you received it. As I said before the main problem could be that your battery have been inflated if is this you must replace it not only because the bad performance but also because it is really dangerous(there are acids in there and if it explote..)
However it seems more like a continous draining try calibrating as you said with battery calibration or similars. If the battery starts to decrease its life (i mean today lasts 5h., tomorrow 3h.) it is almost sure what i said about the battery.
hope i helped you somehow
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Battery Problem

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.
noneabove said:
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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noneabove said:
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.
arpitnathany said:
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.
nickeedoo said:
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 ...

Huge battery drain from the screen?

I've noticed that the screen on my Nitro HD seems to use a ridiculous amount of battery, even at ~20% brightness.
With the screen off most of the time, I can get pretty decent battery life:
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However, with the screen on, the battery seems to drain at a rate of 1% every ~1-2 minutes, even at low brightness settings. You can actually see it in the screenshot above...the sharp downward sloping sections are when the screen was on.
Is anyone else experiencing similar battery drain from the screen, or is my particular screen defective in some way?
It is a consequence of using of hi quality ips display in this phone...
My phone is being abnormally horrible today.. This is absolutely ridiculous,i can see the battery bar just draining by looking at it. I took screen shots but for some reason it says incorrect file extension,i don't usually have any problems.
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The problem is the ICS rom your using, which im assuming is CM9. Thats one of the problems everybody is having with it, and it will eventually go away as bugs are fixed and updates are released.
I'm expecting it to be fixed CM9 RC1, it may not be, but i dont see why RC would release a non-nightly with such a huge widespread problem.
I'm in stock..
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My battery is draining like insane. I can see with my eyes how its draining. Does anyone know how to fix this. I had all the galaxy s2's and other phones none of them did this.
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I've seen this aswell
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Man nobody buying this phones? This place is empty
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Yeah I've had bad battery life with this phone too. Especially after flashing a new rom or with the stock rom but I have noticed that the battery life was great with ho!no!'s first rom. Now with cm9 and the nightlies I can't judge it because I'm always flashing the new update. I've noticed that roms need to "settle in" and that after a few days the battery is better.
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I don't know when I start using the phone it gets hot and battery drains. I got the phone today. I really like the hardware better then samsang but this battery is crap. Its all stock no root or anything.
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samomamo said:
I don't know when I start using the phone it gets hot and battery drains. I got the phone today. I really like the hardware better then samsang but this battery is crap. Its all stock no root or anything.
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It gets better if you remove the crapware and remove the LG launcher and use a different one.
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It gets better if you remove the crapware and remove the LG launcher and use a different one.
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went to a different launcher and now the battery is definetly lasting longer.
used to go from 7am to 6pm with just using phone, txt, and e-mail -> %5 left
to
from 7am to 8pm with phone, txt, e-mail, games, surfing -> %15 to %20 left
can't wait to root and remove crud

Did I get a defective battery?

Just got my s3 like a week or so. I made a mistake and not charge it initially (thought it was a myth). I used my battery all the way to 17%. Now my battery only average up to 2 hours screen on. My sister who also got the phone as the same time has about right hour screen on time. Did I screw up or it's just my battery being defective
EDIT: attached is the battery stats
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What's brightness set to, and what are you doing while the screen is on? You on WiFi most of the time?
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What's brightness set to, and what are you doing while the screen is on? You on WiFi most of the time?
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Well, when I'm in door, I use low brightness most of the time. Only when I'm outside I would use auto brightness. Since I'm in wifi zone most of the time, yes I do have wifi on. I mostly use my phone for twitter, web browsing, and youtube, nothing heavy like gaming or benchmark.
Hard to say if its defective but I've definitely seen a lot better battery. It might not hurt to try and get a new one.
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you should calibrate your battery a couple times once you get the phone. do it a couple times and it will fix itself. also check all your syncing settings. this phone will deplete a battery in 5-6 hours if fully charged and phone brightness is up all the way while watching videos.
Calibrating batteries is a myth from the days of older battery technology. Draining your battery to 0 on purpose is actually killing your battery faster because you just used up one cycle.
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Calibrating batteries is a myth from the days of older battery technology. Draining your battery to 0 on purpose is actually killing your battery faster because you just used up one cycle.
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I think you're right
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There's a bug on stock that makes cell standby much higher than it really is. So I wouldn't worry too much about that.
Also, Google Chrome is a huge battery killer for some reason. Consider switching to a different browser?
Still having the original battery in my vibrant and getting 8-9 hour charges while killing the battery 100% and charging it up once a week does nothing? Same thing for my g2x. I get about 10-11 hours on the thing daily original battery as well. If anything and you're not rooted to delete battery stats, its a good thing to do a couple times. I don't think I have hurt the battery at all, and if anything they still last very long...
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Android system % is really high.

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.

Battery is ****ed up.

I was always unsatisfied with my battery life, but now it's gone too far!
1. No matter how long I charge it, at the very second I unplug it it goes down to 99%.
2. It doesn't even go down correctly, one moment it's 65% and the other it's 58%. Always.
3. It drains soooooo fast even though I do nothing with it!!!!
Here are some pictures
1. This is 17 minutes after unplugging it, all I did was to put music on [earphones] and check if my girlfriend was online on Whatsapp.
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2. That's after a minute and a half, 2% less, doing nothing but listening to music with my screen off!
3. One minute later..
4. Sixteen minutes later, phone is idle and untouched [not even music, I started my shift]
5. Again, idle.
It lasts 3 hours tops!!!! What the hell do I do.
MaorSwan said:
I was always unsatisfied with my battery life, but now it's gone too far!
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This app already told you the culprit! Your getting wakelocks so an app you installed is keeping the device awake all the time. The rest is for you to figure out partner . Use the search function on XDA and you will find all the info you need.
Tw1tchy said:
This app already told you the culprit! Your getting wakelocks so an app you installed is keeping the device awake all the time. The rest is for you to figure out partner . Use the search function on XDA and you will find all the info you need.
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Ok might be but to the level where the phone doesn't last 3 hours? That's not cool. It should be lasting more even with heavy using.
MaorSwan said:
Ok might be but to the level where the phone doesn't last 3 hours? That's not cool. It should be lasting more even with heavy using.
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yeah you're right, it should last more anyway! maybe it's the rom.. what rom are you using? or maybe the battery failed. it happened to me with another phone, basically i was in the seaside with about 38°C the phone was boiling hot, the battery was fully charged but in about 20 mins it was at 5% without even using it then it died. since then that battery never worked again and i had to buy a new one. do you remember if you had a similar situation or if your phone overheated for any other reason (maybe while charging or near a heat source)?
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yeah you're right, it should last more anyway! maybe it's the rom.. what rom are you using? or maybe the battery failed. it happened to me with another phone, basically i was in the seaside with about 38°C the phone was boiling hot, the battery was fully charged but in about 20 mins it was at 5% without even using it then it died. since then that battery never worked again and i had to buy a new one. do you remember if you had a similar situation or if your phone overheated for any other reason (maybe while charging or near a heat source)?
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I use Android Revolution HD.
It got heated a few times but not too hot, and besides, I read that it happens to everyone..

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