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This started happening out of nowhere, a couple months back. My phone will lose battery at an incredibly fast rate, then swoop back up (without being plugged in), then fall, etc etc until it hits 0%. I can then turn it back on and it says 50% or what have you, and the same process repeats. These are the things I've tried:
1. Bought a new ZeroLemon battery because I thought my battery might be broken. All this served to do was increase the number of swoops. The battery still barely lasts half a day.
2. Cleaned the contacts of the battery and on the phone.
3. Installed all kinds of battery helpers and battery recalibration apps. Here's a screenshot of an app telling me, after I charged the phone to 100% (with a separate battery charger so I know it was at 100%).
It appears the phone is just reading the battery incorrectly. Not only does it report 60% but it also reports 3800 mV, which a fully charged battery should be around 4200 or 4300 correct?
4. Now here's the weird one: I blew on the contacts. This made things work better for a week or two. The new battery lasted about 3 days, which I thought was pretty good. Now it's back to where it was again.
It seems like I've tried just about everything, and it's a problem with the phone. Only problem is, as you can see, I have CM installed and the phone is over a year old, so any kind of warranty is long bye bye. Any suggestions my fellow S3 owners? I've tried googling this problem everywhere and it seems I'm the only one with it.
Thanks so much
dyno0919 said:
Hey all,
Let the following speak for itself:
This started happening out of nowhere, a couple months back. My phone will lose battery at an incredibly fast rate, then swoop back up (without being plugged in), then fall, etc etc until it hits 0%. I can then turn it back on and it says 50% or what have you, and the same process repeats. These are the things I've tried:
1. Bought a new ZeroLemon battery because I thought my battery might be broken. All this served to do was increase the number of swoops. The battery still barely lasts half a day.
2. Cleaned the contacts of the battery and on the phone.
3. Installed all kinds of battery helpers and battery recalibration apps. Here's a screenshot of an app telling me, after I charged the phone to 100% (with a separate battery charger so I know it was at 100%).
It appears the phone is just reading the battery incorrectly. Not only does it report 60% but it also reports 3800 mV, which a fully charged battery should be around 4200 or 4300 correct?
4. Now here's the weird one: I blew on the contacts. This made things work better for a week or two. The new battery lasted about 3 days, which I thought was pretty good. Now it's back to where it was again.
It seems like I've tried just about everything, and it's a problem with the phone. Only problem is, as you can see, I have CM installed and the phone is over a year old, so any kind of warranty is long bye bye. Any suggestions my fellow S3 owners? I've tried googling this problem everywhere and it seems I'm the only one with it.
Thanks so much
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I'm not sure exactly how to fix your problem, but just wanted to state that battery helping apps and calibration apps are bogus, they serve no purpose!
DMF1977 said:
I'm not sure exactly how to fix your problem, but just wanted to state that battery helping apps and calibration apps are bogus, they serve no purpose!
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I also forgot to mention that I have tried formatting everything and installing a different ROM etc etc. Is there any option short of buying a new phone?
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I got my Orbit today and charged it for around 4 hours. Since then it has been unplugged for at least 3 hours, during which time the battery meter has not decreased from 100%. All ROMs and whatnot are as they are out of the box. I have read it using SPB PocketPlus battery meter and the one in settings.
What can I do about this? Thanks.
have you been using the unit? I can charge mine up, leave it overnight (when it doesn't get used) and in the morning it's still 100 or 99%....
ther's nothing wrong with it unless you've been vigorously using it and the battery hasn't gone down.
This is because of the type of battery that is used
Normal battery's will decrease in voltage over time:
(EXAMPLE NO REAL VALUES)
Decreasing like from
5,5 to 4,5 over the 100% battery load, so you know if your at 5Volts you have about 50% left (there is a bit more calculation requiered, but you get the idea)
The battery used in new gen phones keep a working voltage of 5,5 V until it reaces about 20% load left, in the other 80% it will decrease verry little and so it is verry hard to detect the battery load.
So I should just leave it and see if it ever decreases then?
I'm just afraid because this happened with my Universal.
1. what happened to you Universal??
2. just let it wait for a day and see what happens. else contact HTC
My Universal was crashing when I charged it so I got a new battery. Since the beginning that battery showed 100% charge all the time. I then put it on to charge overnight and it showed the correct battery level.
However, my Orbit was on charge overnight and the battery level still shows 100% - after charging, and now - several hours later after a couple of calls.
What happens if you remove the battery, howmuch batt level does it show
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I think you'd better contact HTC...
After removing and replacing the battery it still shows 100%.
Also what do you mean by contacting HTC? I've looked on the support section of their site but they give no contact details there. Only their European HQ.
So? you dont want to be helped by a european??
Just try mailing them, i reported some issues by mail, they are quick with the reply's so just give it a go.
I meant that normally a company headquarters does not concern themselves with support. Also there is no email address given - were you suggesting snailmail?
Looky here
Customer Services
Technical Support by email
should do the trick
Ahh, good stuff. I will try that too.
I did contact the HQ and they gave me a number for a technical support line, the person there suggested a hard reset. I'm going to try this email thing first because I'd like to avoid a hard reset if possible.
I have also had an idea. This didn't seem important to me at first because I did the same with my previous HTC devices (Alpine and Universal) but when I got the phone I plugged it in to charge and started the setup of WM5. Is it possible that when you're doing the WM5 setup it takes a reading of the battery, for calibration purposes, and it assumed it was at 100% when it was really quite low? So now it thinks that say 20% is full, so it shows 100%? Just a thought.
sounds odd, because then you could never use a new battery, coz it will never know how much it's loaded.
I've also ordered a new battery from eBay, because it was only £10 and it came with a standalone charger. I figured I might as well try it and if it doesn't solve this problem at least I've got a spare battery.
It's showing 99% now. Things are looking up. I don't think I did anything in particular. I'll see how it goes on.
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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plobukt said:
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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Hey guys,
Ive been trying to diagnose this problem for a while, still cant figure it out. I get TERRIBLE battery life, for having a 3900mah battery. Im really really confused what is going on. Its a VZW galaxy nexus. Here are some of my specs, and then Ill post some data graphs:
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-I have a 3800mAh 3.7VDC lithiom ion battery, looks like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/3800mAh-Ext...770689?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item4167963201
-I have NFC and Bluetooth turned off
-I have not done any undervolting, yet
-I have brightness at bare minimum
-I am only running on 3g
-I run a primarily black background
-I followed this guide for screen settings: http://www.ebay.com/itm/3800mAh-Ext...770689?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item4167963201
-this was done not playing any games, maybe only 2 min of youtube videos, primarily just light browsing, some mp3 playback, and reddit.
-using JBsourcery 2.5 rom
Graphs:
Before this test I was charged to 100%, deleted battery stats. I have better battery installed now, I will post those results after today, see if those help at all
Can someone please give me some direction? Do I have a bad battery? Ive had it for some time, Ive always though the battery should preform better than it does. Please any advice would be great
Definitely something wrong with that battery. Maybe it simply isn't a 3900mAh battery as the seller says? Or alternatively you have a faulty battery.
Based on my experience you should be getting better battery life than that even on stock battery. With CNA 3.6.6 + Trinity a67 I've had screen on time of over 3 hours and total discharge time of over 1d before reaching empty. And those were with display brightness set to automatic.
Hey buddy, from my experience, extended batteries tend to normally discharge to 1% normally, then it hangs there for many, many hours. The OS cannot detect the aftermarket battery size. Hope this helps.
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Soldier-2Point0 said:
Hey buddy, from my experience, extended batteries tend to normally discharge to 1% normally, then it hangs there for many, many hours. The OS cannot detect the aftermarket battery size. Hope this helps.
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I actually drained it all the way until it died, this screenshot is after it died
Im relatively certain now my battery is a dud. Can anyone recommend a battery? Is the seidio really my only option? Or do any of the other ones work?
I would try doing a battery calibration before buying another battery. It seems like a dud from what you've posted, but it won't hurt to calibrate it just to be sure.
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I would try doing a battery calibration before buying another battery. It seems like a dud from what you've posted, but it won't hurt to calibrate it just to be sure.
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And how do I do that? I already charged to full, wiped stats, and started from 100%-->0%
decided to go with just buying the seidio. I will report back when I have results
Alright, so I am noticing better battery life with this new battery. Realitvely high use, and getting better battery life. I havent been able to recreate the previous day yet, so cant do a comparision quiet yet. But really weird thing happened. I was having some network problems, rebooted my phone and plugged it in. It went from 16% to 42% instantly. Da faq? Anyone have any idea why this would happen? Are my battery stats messed up? Please help
I have my i9250 on CM11, fancy kernel and one of the latest twrp recovery.
I just changed a battery from original one (1750mAh) to slightly bigger one (2000mAh).
Once I tried to fully charge it, it got stuck at 90% and charging process turned off, like the battery was fully charged.
Is there anything I shall do? Like calibration (if so - how to do it?) Or is it the battery that is being screwed and I shall get it replaced.
New battery is not original Samsung battery. It says to be Li-ion battery.
Try to completely drain the new battery and then charge it, without unplugging it, to 100%.
Break me off a piece of that Kit-Kat ROM!
TheMan0790 said:
Try to completely drain the new battery and then charge it, without unplugging it, to 100%.
Break me off a piece of that Kit-Kat ROM!
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Tried that solution, drained it down to 4% and then tried to fully charge. With no success, stuck on 89%.
I will call on for battery replacement.
And hey, grab that piece
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Hmm...sucks to hear the problem isn't fixed. Does sound like the battery isn't getting a complete charge. But hey, I will grab a piece of some Kit-Kat!
Break me off a piece of that Kit-Kat ROM!
Maybe discharge it to 0% till it shuts off and then charge it. If that doesnt work try clearing batterystats (sdmaid has that option for example).
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try to power off your device and remove the battery, for 3 mins or more then insert back and connect your charger untill its fully charged
Since its li.ion battery it shall not be fully discharged, may and probably would battery.
Waiting for new battery, probably will get it tomorrow and then will flash new snapshot of cm11 with full data reset. Hoping for positive results
Change thread name as I guess it is no longer battery calibration thing.
Got another battery and problem persists.
Let me describe the whole story from the beginning.
With my maguro, about 4 months ago, on original battery I noticed worse battery performance. It was getting worse and worse but fairly slow. After about 2,5 months (6 weeks back from now) my phone stopped charging up to 100%. The highest value it would get was 94% and then it would turn off charging. I thought that my battery is dying. After another 3 weeks it would charge up only till 90% and then stop charging. I decided that its about right time to change the battery.
Found substitute with 2000mAh. And the rest of the story is above. It would not charge till 100% (would charge only up till 90%), so I thought that the battery is dodgy. Got a replacement. With new replacement of battery I decided also to do clean flash of new 20140107 CM11 nightly. After clean flash I still get the same problem - my phone does not charge up to 100%.
Checked under *#*#4636#*#*: it says it is Li-ion battery, so in line with what it says on the new battery package (at first I thought they might be selling old types of batteries [ni-cd or ni-mh] under Li-ion labels).
Do you have any idea what to do?
Please be aware that I have already tried:
- draining and then fully charging;
- charging phone with phone switched off;
- gave a phone few minutes with battery out so it could somehow "forget the past";
- different chargers (dc charger, usb charger, car charger);
- resetting battery stats
Anybody any help? Solutions? Same problems in the past?
Hello,
I own a moto 360(2014) and I am barely able to get more than 6 hours of battery life.
Things I have tried to do :
Factory Resetting
Paring to different phones with different android versions
Using it just as a watch without bluetooth and Wifi
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Guys Please help me..
Did this just start for you?
I've owned my watch for years, and last week suddenly started having issues. I can't help but wonder if there was a software change that is causing excessive drain.
three west said:
Did this just start for you?
I've owned my watch for years, and last week suddenly started having issues. I can't help but wonder if there was a software change that is causing excessive drain.
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Not really no.
I've not got any software update over a year I think.
The watch was off for a while, about a month.
But since then it's got really bad.
I've faced similar issues with android phones, where wiping the battery stats makes the battery life as good as stock. If there is a way to achieve this it would be the ideal solution.
Get your battery replaced. I did mine and now Im getting full day outof it compared to half day before.
WoYtaZ said:
Get your battery replaced. I did mine and now Im getting full day outof it compared to half day before.
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Did you go to the service centre?
or purchased the battery online and fitted it from outside?
if you did purchase online a link would be helpful
I did get this battery some time ago on ebay. Im in uk. It wasnt genuine battery but VHBW brand which for my experience is reliable.
Replaced it by myself. There is some guide on the web for doing it. Hardest thing is to get back cover without breaking it. I actually broken my one being carefull, its so fragile.
after another phone side android wear update my battery life is back to normal. Off the charger at 7 AM, and at 7 PM I still have 40% left in the tank.
three west said:
after another phone side android wear update my battery life is back to normal. Off the charger at 7 AM, and at 7 PM I still have 40% left in the tank.
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You mean the android wear application ?
What version are you on now ?
infomedia0 said:
You mean the android wear application ?
What version are you on now ?
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yes, now on 2.7.0.177669439
I've had these issues for about a year now. No updates have made a difference for me. It's not that my battery depletes quickly though, it's that the watch powers off with plenty of battery left and doesn't come back on until charged, usually at the 50-60% mark.
It's nearly 2pm here, been off the charger since maybe 8am, still at 69% battery but I bet it'll be gone in an hour or so.
Is it possible to get a custom ROM for these in case it's a software issue?
UPDATE: couple of minutes later, at 67% it has died.....
ht tps://ww w.youtu be.com/watch?v=wl61mDJlu9E
use this guide! Its so easy to replace the battery!
I also replaced my battery but I used this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1as_h5jnBM he explains very well and some steps explained poorly in the ifixit guide are shown here detailed. The hardest part is removing the backcover without cracking it. I failed and cracked mine but battery is perfectly fine now, for the cracked backcover there are some replacements for about 20€. However I own a 3D printer and will print me a new backcover by myself, I hope it will be fine, i will provide some pictures at the end of the week just in case someone is interested
Battery is dead
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Battery is dead
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Than try to replace it, if it's already dead you have nothing to lose except the 9€ you have to invest in a new battery