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Hi everyone I got my phone 4 days ago and have been through charge cycles but my battery life sucks. I only get a Max of 2hrs on screen time and 12 hours with the phone on (if its in airplane mode the whole time). Also, it takes forever to charge. I charged it from 7pm to 10:30pm and it went from 2% to 34%. And as i type this message (on wifi) I lost 3% battery life. What should I do?
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Also it seems that display takes up 50% battery (which is good) but as soon as I send one text, phone immediately goes to 50% and display down to 18%. It stays that way all day and rebooting does not help. And the battery percent goes up and down without charging. And yes I have calibrated it multiple times
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Have you considered getting another battery
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I would not like to spend anymore money on this phone if possible. I just spent $680 on it. What kind of battery life are u getting?
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You should return it. My on screen time is 3hrs and I still have 61% left.
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Yup, I can get 4+ hours screen time, not on power saver. You need to swap your phone out, something's not right.
Something is definitely wrong. I had a 45 minute conversation in my car today with the screen on for navigation and it only drained 15%. I was quite impressed.
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Call up T-Mobile and tell them your battery is defective and they will send you a new one free of charge. Plus you can keep your old one.
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Well I went back to the tmobile store and just swapped the phone. Hopefully this one will be better than the last.
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Scoutamis said:
Hi everyone I got my phone 4 days ago and have been through charge cycles but my battery life sucks. I only get a Max of 2hrs on screen time and 12 hours with the phone on (if its in airplane mode the whole time). Also, it takes forever to charge. I charged it from 7pm to 10:30pm and it went from 2% to 34%. And as i type this message (on wifi) I lost 3% battery life. What should I do?
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Most likely, you have a lemon, and you should exchange it.
keep in mind, if you store your phone in a hot place it will drain considerably quicker..happen to my S2
G1_enthusiast said:
keep in mind, if you store your phone in a hot place it will drain considerably quicker..happen to my S2
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I always have my phone in my pocket so its not really ever in a hot place. But thanks for the suggestion
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Scoutamis said:
I always have my phone in my pocket so its not really ever in a hot place. But thanks for the suggestion
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You clearly have something defective.
(from my phone)
em2drvr03 said:
Call up T-Mobile and tell them your battery is defective and they will send you a new one free of charge. Plus you can keep your old one.
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are you serious? can someone verify this?
Do you have low signal. At my home I had the same issue, but on sprint. Using something like juice defender extended my battery life considerably.
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Lieu10ant said:
are you serious? can someone verify this?
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Here we go. Now everybody and their mom is gonna try to scam T-Mobile like Charlie did HTC for the battery covers. :-[
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The_Biz said:
Here we go. Now everybody and their mom is gonna try to scam T-Mobile like Charlie did HTC for the battery covers. :-[
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Then they'll start charging. My friends Sensation legit needed a back cover for his phone (power button was shot and volume rocker fell out) but he couldn't get one from HTC after three attempts.
Try doing a factory reset. It helped on my S3.
prophetx2 said:
Do you have low signal. At my home I had the same issue, but on sprint. Using something like juice defender extended my battery life considerably.
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Signal is strong where I live so that wasn't the issue
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vince2398 said:
Try doing a factory reset. It helped on my S3.
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Tried that and it didn't help so I got it replaced. Getting much better results with the new phone
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Hey guys did a clean install to update to the latest build of fi27 using agats 6.2. Now when i use my car charger it says voltage too high? So i switched to kubans latest and same thing. So is part of the new build. Its very strange ive never seen this before.
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xe4zy said:
Hey guys did a clean install to update to the latest build of fi27 using agats 6.2. Now when i use my car charger it says voltage too high? So i switched to kubans latest and same thing. So is part of the new build. Its very strange ive never seen this before.
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When this issue happened to me, I took my phone into the Sprint store and they tested and found that the battery was bad. I had tried the phone of a couple of different car chargers before that and I received that same message on all of them.
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When this issue happened to me, I took my phone into the Sprint store and they tested and found that the battery was bad. I had tried the phone of a couple of different car chargers before that and I received that same message on all of them.
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Thanks for the input. Not sure if its the battery. Use my normal charger at home. No problems there. When i use my charger then i get that. ****ing weird
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Universal car chargers are very bad for batteries. You always want to charge your phone more on the original charger. Only use a car charger when it is absolutely necessary to charge your phone.
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Sprint will tell you it is a bad battery in order to keep from exchanging your device, this is the beginning part of the usb port starting to fail...I had this, I checked everywhere and then eventually the port gave in and went bad. Sprint exchanged my device.
hooover said:
Sprint will tell you it is a bad battery in order to keep from exchanging your device, this is the beginning part of the usb port starting to fail...I had this, I checked everywhere and then eventually the port gave in and went bad. Sprint exchanged my device.
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Thanks guys. Yeah very weird. Never had a problem before but now even when i switch back to gb same result. So this could be a sign of usb port failure? Good thing my upgrades in march. fingers crossed i also land my job at sprint but **** man just to get hired what a process its been two weeks. Hopefully when i work there maybe i can put in my two cents that would actually be benefical to the devs.
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Had this same issue yesterday after flashing FI27. Started with "voltage too high" eventually wouldnt charge at all. Luckily i have a repair center a mile ftom home.
Dropped off the phone and the rep seemed to be quite familiar with the problem. She said its been fairly common recently. They ordered me a new phone for Thur. Im pretty happy cause this assurion refurb has been locking up and running super hot since I got it.
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dberend said:
Had this same issue yesterday after flashing FI27. Started with "voltage too high" eventually wouldnt charge at all. Luckily i have a repair center a mile ftom home.
Dropped off the phone and the rep seemed to be quite familiar with the problem. She said its been fairly common recently. They ordered me a new phone for Thur. Im pretty happy cause this assurion refurb has been locking up and running super hot since I got it.
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Did you have to pay the $100 or whatever the cost of the deductible is?
Ever since I flashed agats 0.6.2 kernel my battery icon blinks. An even after unplugging the phone it still says its charging. Even if I take the battery out for hours today and put it back in it says charging on the lock screen and if I try to turn on adb it says please unplug usb cord. And the other weird thing is soon as I put the battery in it boots up with out holding the power button.
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Did you have to pay the $100 or whatever the cost of the deductible is?
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Nope, covered under warranty. I had a few dings but no water damage/cracked glass
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Hey guys back again...so uh yeah ive tried everything my guess is the battery needs to go. Ive even set my cpu to 600 -200 and no luck the sucker just keeps draining. So i guess anyone know a good place to buy a battery for this phone? Im mean a site that is trustworthy?
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xe4zy said:
Hey guys back again...so uh yeah ive tried everything my guess is the battery needs to go. Ive even set my cpu to 600 -200 and no luck the sucker just keeps draining. So i guess anyone know a good place to buy a battery for this phone? Im mean a site that is trustworthy?
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I''ve had good luck with these http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006GM6IF2/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
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dberend said:
I''ve had good luck with these http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006GM6IF2/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
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Thanks bro. Hoping it is just the battery and not my usb port going bad.
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If it's the same problem, I think it has to do with the charging circuits. My battery charged fine on an external charger. In fact at the Sprint store the were going to give me the old battery in my new refurb. Told them I didn't want it if there was a possibility the voltage protection was going bad, might have shortened its life.
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I've had this phone for 1.5 months now flashing daily never had any problems until three days ago my battery charges so slow that I can't keep my phone charged it's even draining while I have it on the charger! I know one ONE time I couldn't find my Samsung wall adapter so I used my iPad charger but the voltage is the same and its at 2amps so it can't be the culprit can it?? any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Oh BTW I wiped data, both cache, /system, fresh flash, fix perm., baterry stats, all of the above and still dies slowly on the charger... maybe I need another cable? Iddk :/
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I noticed the same thing after I wiped battery stats. I reboot while charging fixed it rite up.
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I'll see what happens and report back
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Ahhh still draining :/
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lt.anthonydelgado said:
I've had this phone for 1.5 months now flashing daily never had any problems until three days ago my battery charges so slow that I can't keep my phone charged it's even draining while I have it on the charger! I know one ONE time I couldn't find my Samsung wall adapter so I used my iPad charger but the voltage is the same and its at 2amps so it can't be the culprit can it?? any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Oh BTW I wiped data, both cache, /system, fresh flash, fix perm., baterry stats, all of the above and still dies slowly on the charger... maybe I need another cable? Iddk :/
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I think I charged my battery once or twice with a nexus 7 charger (2 amps). I didn't explode or anything.
Go to a sprint store and ask nicely to test their own battery. See if maybe your battery died (don't discharge this type of batteries below 10 or so %, that damages them over time and the capacity is reduced).
Also thought I should mention I have all sync support off..
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nabbed said:
I think I charged my battery once or twice with a nexus 7 charger (2 amps). I didn't explode or anything.
Go to a sprint store and ask nicely to test their own battery. See if maybe your battery died (don't discharge this type of batteries below 10 or so %, that damages them over time and the capacity is reduced).
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When you say test their battery do you mean just to check if it charges? Maybe I should go with my charger and all? But honestly I can't find my s3 wall adapter I'm using my Epic 4g Touch adapter lol!!!!
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I read somewhere a LONG time ago that sprint would send new batteries to customers can anyone confirm??
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lt.anthonydelgado said:
I read somewhere a LONG time ago that sprint would send new batteries to customers can anyone confirm??
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Sprint will give u one at the store under warranty. Samsung will ship you one, even out of warranty, as they warranty the batteries for 18months vs the 12 for the device itself. Or so said the guy at Samsung that sent me mine for my E4GT last week
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OGP is about 1 year old and the last week or so I have been getting random reboots. All apps that were put on in that time period have been removed. Unless I pull the battery it will keep rebooting. Suggestions?
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Need more info. ROM? Recovery? Rooted? Nonrooted?
psal217050 said:
OGP is about 1 year old and the last week or so I have been getting random reboots. All apps that were put on in that time period have been removed. Unless I pull the battery it will keep rebooting. Suggestions?
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Same thing has happened to me! I have been eliminating apps one by one. I am stock ROM rooted using some closed modules.
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psal217050 said:
OGP is about 1 year old and the last week or so I have been getting random reboots. All apps that were put on in that time period have been removed. Unless I pull the battery it will keep rebooting. Suggestions?
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It might be the battery. About three months ago I was having the same problem on the 4.1.2 stock rom, rooted, and had xposed module on it. I used the .tot files to go back to stock and I still had random reboots. Tried different roms from Cm 11 to a the e986 roms to, but continued to have the random reboots.
After a while, I realized that it was past a certain battery percent that it would reboot randomly, so I bought a refurbished battery on Amazon and have never had random reboots ever since. That's just my phone though, and a suggestion if you're have similar problems as my phone.
I will keep an eye on that. Thanks.
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roa57 said:
It might be the battery. About three months ago I was having the same problem on the 4.1.2 stock rom, rooted, and had xposed module on it. I used the .tot files to go back to stock and I still had random reboots. Tried different roms from Cm 11 to a the e986 roms to, but continued to have the random reboots.
After a while, I realized that it was past a certain battery percent that it would reboot randomly, so I bought a refurbished battery on Amazon and have never had random reboots ever since. That's just my phone though, and a suggestion if you're have similar problems as my phone.
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I think I have to agree with this. I had a zero lemon battery pack and switched back to stock and reboots stopped.
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Yo!
I hope im posting this in the right thread. Im experiencing bad battery drainage. I will charge my phone at least 3 times a day. Once fully charged it will last usually 2 hours if im on it off and on. Until it hits 30% then it will turn my radio off, and i will have no connection. So i restart my phone and it will come back on with 2%! UGH! Ive tried conditioning my battery by draining completely and charging completely. Maybe its a lemon, i dunno. So has anyone out there experienced this same issue?
Thank you for any info i can get!
B-noob
B-noob said:
Yo!
I hope im posting this in the right thread. Im experiencing bad battery drainage. I will charge my phone at least 3 times a day. Once fully charged it will last usually 2 hours if im on it off and on. Until it hits 30% then it will turn my radio off, and i will have no connection. So i restart my phone and it will come back on with 2%! UGH! Ive tried conditioning my battery by draining completely and charging completely. Maybe its a lemon, i dunno. So has anyone out there experienced this same issue?
Thank you for any info i can get!
B-noob
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What ROM are you using? Stock or custom kernel? If custom kernel which one?
Mostly sounds like a bad battery to me. This has been showing up more often over the past couple of months. This device has gotten up in age and the batteries are giving out. Even users who have only had the device for a few months have seen this happening. While the purchase of the device maybe recent there is a good chance it has been sitting around at the store or a warehouse for a while.
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Nope this is just a stock phone for the moment. So nothing special about this phone.
Yeah that what I though too. This phone is 2 years old and so is the battery. Time to root it and buy a new battery. Thanx for the incite!
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Nope this is just a stock phone for the moment. So nothing special about this phone.
Yeah that what I though too. This phone is 2 years old and so is the battery. Time to root it and buy a new battery. Thanx for the incite!
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If you want to save a few steps I suggest skipping rooting. Just Odin a custom recovery then flash a custom ROM. All custom ROMs are rooted already so the only reason you would need to root is if you plan on sticking with the stock ROM.
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Thanx! I've never heard of that before so maybe I'll give it a shot!
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We got new batteries after 8 months of having our phones (s3 and note2) mainly to have the old batteries ad back-ups. Have to say that i was pretty surprised at the difference. New batteries were sooo much better!
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Nice! I just purchased a new battery off of Amazon. It's a Beltron, hope it's good.
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B-noob said:
Nice! I just purchased a new battery off of Amazon. It's a Beltron, hope it's good.
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I got knock-offs for both phones. Paid a lot less then if i had bought samsung batteries. And, i think both batteries have held up a lot better then the originals ☺
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Nice! I just purchased a new battery off of Amazon. It's a Beltron, hope it's good.
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I am still running original battery so not sure about any replacements. Although the normal philosophy applies buy cheap get cheap. Not saying buy the most expensive is best but those $5 Chinese batteries are never a good option.
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