So the other day I flashed a 4.3 rom and started having major battery drain and overheating issues. I tried re-flashing the rom and then tried some other 4.3 rom's and the same issue occurred. I then restored my nandroid backup from (4.2 rom) and it was doing the same thing. Even tried flashing a fresh 4.2 rom and still the same thing. Battery drains rapidly even while the phone is turned off and the phone gets very warm to the touch. I know it's not the battery because I have about 4 that I tried and my bro has the gnex as well and I swapped the battery from his perfectly working phone.
My phone also won't charge while it's turned on. Tried the trick with moving the pin up and it worked for a little while but now will only charge while off (sometimes).
Really wanted to hold off on getting a new phone until the next Nexus came out but looks like I might have to bight the bullet and get an HTC One, S4, or Droid Maxx.
So I guess my question is, is my phone completely screwed. Think I could turn it in to Verizon to get a refurb or am I screwed because I've flashed? Any other recommendations?
Appreciate it!!
hello sir
My phone was exactly in that condition.. suddenly battery drops without me doing anything, doesnt charge while ON.
Well, what i discovered is the fact the battery drops too fast is because the phone doesnt enter deep sleep or if yours do so then something is wrong with deep sleep mechanism like mine did. About the fact that it doesnt charge it has to do with ur charging port being somehow damaged, i think its by the use of non original cable.. I had to take it to repair and now its working fine
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bump, same here, battery sucks and phone heats up, any solutions?
that's pretty vague because it maybe something completely different from what OP said. If you do have exactly all of those problems then im afraid that the only thing possible is take it to repair. I've tried a lot of roms and kernels and they all were unable to enter deep sleep, or i couldn't charge the phone, etc etc
I reflashed stock rom, waited for update to 4.3 and then flashed custom recovery, and after that custom rom, and so far seems like problem is gone.
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I tried the Oxygen v2.0-RC7 rom a few days ago. Has been working relatively well with some minor bugs (like not being able to move icons without them dissapoearing). But yesterday something really odd happened and got me kinda worried.
I turned the sound off on the phone via the lockscreen, then locked the phone in my locker when i worked out. The battery was at about 80% at the time. When i came back about two hours later my phone was _REALLY_ hot and the battery was totally drained and the phone dead (ofc).
Anyone else experienced this? New user here so can't post in the official thread for the rom. What got me worried was that the phone was getting extremely hot.
There is nothing wrong with the ROM as far as battery drain is concerned. I have been running RC7 since release and with my current configuration get almost 3 days of battery usage before I need to re-charge.
I would suggest that it is more likely to be a rogue application that is constantly running in the background eating the battery.
If the phone was getting hot, I would suggest that an application is hammering the CPU (such as navigation) which would drain the battery pretty fast.
Odd thing is, I had the phone in my pocket for maybe 3 hours prior to this incident. Then it was at about 80% (remember because I checked when i turned off the sound). Then only thing I did was turn off the sound via the lockscreen. Didn't even unlock the phone at all. Then this happened.
Seems really strange. But it has only happened this once, and it is a homebuilt rom so I don't really expect everything to be perfect. Just that I've had the phone run hot before, just not this hot.
Was actually worried it had broke before i got home and put the charger in It was completely dead. Couldn't even start to boot up that you sometimes can do when the phone has died and then rested for a few mins.
could be a faulty handset, i had issues with my phone running out of battery pretty fast and after a warrenty replacement seems to have sorted it.
phone shouldnt be over heating...
Kesio said:
I turned the sound off on the phone via the lockscreen, then locked the phone in my locker when i worked out. The battery was at about 80% at the time. When i came back about two hours later my phone was _REALLY_ hot and the battery was totally drained and the phone dead (ofc).
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Wasn't a metal locker, by any chance ? A metal locker would function as a faraday cage, meaning your phone would get at best a very weak signal, and would be using maximum power to try and communicate with the base station. Would explain why the phone was hot, too.
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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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.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
MajorTankz said:
The battery percentage always decreases dramatically everytime you reboot. Android just doesnt read correctly after rebooting.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
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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!
I have a droid incredible 2. And of course it comes with all that horrible verizon crap bloatware. So I used adw tools to root the phone and achieve s-off and all of that good stuff. I flashed CM7 successfully. Worked great.
However... after flashing the rom; the phone would barely charge. At one point it died. So, using the stock charger, plugged phone into the wall, turned the phone off and left to charge overnight. Turned it back on about 7 hours later and had about 16% charge. So.. I thought well crap and ordered a brand new battery. The same exact issue persists with the new battery.
I tried calibrating the phone with an app from the market and I also tried calibrating it by letting it fully discharge then recharge. I also wiped the batter stats.
So I thought maybe I did something wrong. I tried cleaning everything up and flashing to a different rom entirely. Same problem persists.
After exhaustive google searching I really didn't get anywhere. So since the phone is under warranty called verzion and they are shipping a replacement.So, in order to send it back I needed to unroot and put it back to stock. So I did that. No problems. Plugged in the phone before bed, and woke up in the morning to a fully charged phone.
I really really want to root / flash the replacement phone but I don't want to run into the same problems. Can anyone tell me what might have gone wrong?
that is strange..i've never heard of that problem. try a different rom maybe
JehC said:
that is strange..i've never heard of that problem. try a different rom maybe
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As I mentioned I did try two of the most popular/stable roms. Do you have any other recommendations?
Hi guys
My Optimus G is dying on a slowly and painful way...This time I have the following problem:
Phone was working perfect except for its battery life (lasting 5 hours at max), but it started to turn off by itself randomly.
Then, I started to bootloop, when I decided to flash another ROM, but now, everytime that try to flash ANYTHING the phone turns off while flashing. I can perform full wipe, but when I try to flash, power goes off.
Is there anything that can do? Is it completely dead?
Thank you guys!
i think i have the same problem, but mine shuts down while booting, i can flash roms normally.
still have to wait for my battery to arrive, going to change it to find out if it fix the problem
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i think i have the same problem, but mine shuts down while booting, i can flash roms normally.
still have to wait for my battery to arrive, going to change it to find out if it fix the problem
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This is my second battery. Never had this problem with the old one, but my battery life problem doesn't seem to be battery issue, but something on the phone...
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This is my second battery. Never had this problem with the old one, but my battery life problem doesn't seem to be battery issue, but something on the phone...
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:good: thanks for the heads up. Guess it's time to upgrade
my phone is also off for last couple of weeks. when i put phone on charger it powers on and then shut downs automatically after lg logo. Phone remains on if i put phone into recovery mode but it didn't allow to flash any rom because whenever i try to flash rom after wipe it power off itself.
I also tried remove and put battery back trick but it also didn't work don't know its battery issue or something else
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my phone is also off for last couple of weeks. when i put phone on charger it powers on and then shut downs automatically after lg logo. Phone remains on if i put phone into recovery mode but it didn't allow to flash any rom because whenever i try to flash rom after wipe it power off itself.
I also tried remove and put battery back trick but it also didn't work don't know its battery issue or something else
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It seems very similar to what is happening with me. Tomorrow I'll try to put the phone back to the stock rom and see if it works.
As soon as I do it, I post the if it works.
i have tried flashing stock 4.1.2 and it work a little bit better. but i need to boot it while plug in. when its booted it stays on. the phone shuts it self down when receiving calls. Did not try any other apps while it's on still have it stock.
I don't know why this is happening, is it so that now a days you can't keep your phone longer than you expected, problem came up after a few years,so they force you to replace your phone once a while.
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i have tried flashing stock 4.1.2 and it work a little bit better. but i need to boot it while plug in. when its booted it stays on. the phone shuts it self down when receiving calls. Did not try any other apps while it's on still have it stock.
I don't know why this is happening, is it so that now a days you can't keep your phone longer than you expected, problem came up after a few years,so they force you to replace your phone once a while.
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Yeah...When I bought this phone I was living in Korea and couldn't use due carrier's problems. Then I moved back to my homecountry and that phone, after 8 months of usage almost exploded while charging (an absurd overheat)...Since that, the phone started with battery issues and ghost touches problems. The ghost touches stopped and I replaced the battery but now it doesn't work at all. How the hell LG makes a premium device (highend in 2013) that couldn't last a year after unboxing???? That's why I've decided to move back to Motorola, Samsung and HTC...My Galaxy Nexus could resist the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, and this crappy Optimus G can't even CHARGE without destroying itself.
Another LG device? Never!
i just replace my battery, and my phone is work like new again. For now my problem is fixed
new T-5 battery saved my phone. Replaced it yesterday. Phone is back on Sling rom
Hi,
I bought M8 because I liked good old M7 so much.
So that phone and it's battery are quite new, about a two months old. But I'm bit pissed because there's that same damn battery problem that we have with M7. Phone shutdowns suddenly with random % while batt is below 40% or below 30%.
After that when I restart the phone it shows there's only 2% left. So something with batt calibration is badly wrong.
I've read about it and internet is full of complains and questions but there's no working solution.
So my question is, have anybody found why it's doing that and is there any solution/fix that REALLY works? Or is everybody just living with that fact that HTC only allows to use 60% of phone's battery?
Now it's bit frustrating to use the phone because SOT is at most 2.5h even with light use and if gaming.. well you got the point.
Phone is fully unlocked and rooted with newest twrp. I have had stock MM rom, RR oreo rom, XenonHD oreo rom, ICE 8.2.2 MM rom and now I'll have AOKP nougat rom but same thing with all roms with couple weeks test period so it's not rom depending.
I have searched this forum, other forums etc and tried to find solution.
I have tested official two minutes power+up+down and also that alternative "at least six restarts with power+up+down and then use it empty" - method without any help.
I have tried wiping caches and I have flashed rom/did factory reset while batt is 100%.
I have drained the phone from 100% to as low as it goes(and shutdowns) and then charged back to 100% with phone on and also with phone off.
I have also tried that while it shows it's 100% wait till it drops to 99%, then shutdown the phone and charge again to 100% (because while I plug charger again it shows something between 90% and 99% while shutdown).
I also tried some batt calibration tool from market even I don't believe on them and read that google worker story about these calibrations.
But about that question, any solution? Any help? Anything else to try? It's very good phone and pity there's that problem in such a good phone. But I just don't believe it's faulty battery because it's so common problem.
Flashing a ROM with the default wipe (data, cache, Dalvik) will normally wipe battery stats and recalibrate the battery meter, in my experience. Then reset the high/low flags by charging to 100%, then drain to close to shutdown (10-20%) and that should be it. Intentionally draining to shutdown is not advised nor necessary. But in your case, may be unavoidable as it may be shutting down even as you try to get "close".
The button combo (power+vol up+vol down) to recalibrate the meter doesn't hurt either. But it looks like you've tried all these things, to no avail.
Make sure your firmware is up to date (MM). But I'm guessing that is already the case, as you probably wouldn't able to flash or run the ROMs mentioned, with outdated firmware.
Only other thing I can think, is to flash stock RUU (if your version has one) to return to full "factory" baseline and start over again (then TWRP, ROM of your choice, etc.). But I don't suspect this will help much over what you've already tried. More of a "doesn't hurt to try" suggestion, as long as you have to time/energy to do so.
Thanks for your reply. Stock rom is MM so I think firmware etc should be fine.
And yes, think I've tried almost "everything" but now after I've tested few weeks I noticed something. It seems it's maybe somehow kernel thing. Not sure but if I use stock MM rom batt works just fine. If I use Revolution HD 53.1 MM rom with stock base(?) kernel, batt works quite fine. But right after I flash elementalX to those or use some other MM/Nougat/Oreo rom with other than stock base kernel batt shut down randomly below 40% and shows wrong %. Weird. I think I just stick with Revolution HD and stock kernel since it seems to work and is much better than stock rom.
Mine sometimes shutdown @60
I jst got another one 2days ago
So I sud be expecting same problem?
I noticed this problem after I flashed RR ROM last December, maybe I sud nt use custom ROM @All on this new one
But I am in love wit lineage 16 ROM
Advice pls
I had the same problem over a year ago. Phone would randomly die once the battery went below 30%. I tried every piece of battery recalibration voodoo posted on this and other sites –including ones that were supposedly official HTC recommended ones.
Nothing worked.
In the end, I bought a replacement battery off eBay and fitted it. I think it was about £17 and I haven't had any random shutdowns since. My battery can run right down to 1% now without the phone switching off. I think, at the end of the day, a new battery is the only solution
BTW –the battery I bought looked OEM. Same markings, holograms, etc. But was a fraction of a mm thicker than the old one, so that it was quite a squeeze fitting the phone back together again and I've still got a slight ridge around the edge of the screen where it's not quite sitting flush with the backplate. But, given the HTC One M8 isn't designed to be taken apart in the first place and I pretty much mangled the speaker covers trying to persuade them to come off, using a hot air gun, that's just one more minor cosmetic detail. My phone may look like it's done a couple of rounds with Mike Tyson now. But for £17 it's been given a new lease of life and [hopefully] I'll get another couple of years out of it.