So, my phone's battery life is overall quite poor for the most part. some days it absolutely burns through my battery with little phone use, and other days it gets decent battery. i downloaded better battery stats, and for example. today my phone drained at about 10%/hour, but yesterday for example it drained at about 3%/hour. And today i did not even use my phone that much. Please help, as this is getting really annoying.
Here are some screenshots of my battery stats on two bad battery days
Day 1 Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/bd5pl
I know it looks like dolphin burned alot of battery, but that it just because it was practically the only application i opened and i used it for a couple minutes which i normally wouldn't do. then i few hours later, this was where my batter was at, and i swear i pretty much did not even touch my phone at all! http://imgur.com/NIfYnkl
Day 2 Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/oTZDu
pleace said:
So, my phone's battery life is overall quite poor for the most part. some days it absolutely burns through my battery with little phone use, and other days it gets decent battery. i downloaded better battery stats, and for example. today my phone drained at about 10%/hour, but yesterday for example it drained at about 3%/hour. And today i did not even use my phone that much. Please help, as this is getting really annoying.
Here are some screenshots of my battery stats on two bad battery days
Day 1 Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/bd5pl
I know it looks like dolphin burned alot of battery, but that it just because it was practically the only application i opened and i used it for a couple minutes which i normally wouldn't do. then i few hours later, this was where my batter was at, and i swear i pretty much did not even touch my phone at all! http://imgur.com/NIfYnkl
Day 2 Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/oTZDu
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Yeah I noticed something interesting as well. I have two batteries for my GS3, one is the stock battery that came with the phone and the other is a 4200 mAh battery from Hyperion Electronics. I decided to test each battery by charging each to 100% on different nights and not touching the phone overnight to see what my battery drain was
Night 1, I tested the stock battery and over night I went from 100% to 40% in a span of about 8 hours. That's a 60% decrease.
Night 2, I tested the Hyperion battery and over night I went from 100% to 98%. A total of 2% decrease in the same span of time.
Now yes I understand that the Hyperion battery is essentially 2x the battery capacity as stock, but just by simple ratios you'd think that since the stock was a 60% decrease that the Hyperion battery would be a 30% decrease, but it's not. The Hyperion battery is literally 1/30th of a drain than was the stock battery.
Something's wrong here and I wish someone could give a straight answer as to why these two batteries are demonstrating dramatically different results.
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I just received this in the mail yesterday, and I think that it's worth $30. The battery definitely lasts longer. I'm only on my first day of use, but have had the phone on with normal use and bluetooth on all day (9+ hours so far) and I'm at 60%. Had I remembered to turn off bluetooth this morning, it would have been closer to 70% left since the bt accounted for 21% of total battery usage.
Also worth noting... The wall charger seems to properly charge the battery. I drained my original 1500mah EVO battery down to 7% and then placed it in the charger. It charged for approximately 6 hours. Normally, when charging it from empty in the phone, it charged much faster. I'm not a battery expert, and I also could be mistaken, but I get the impression (from reading threads and using the phone and previously owning an iphone) that the HTC software is not properly charging the battery and that is contributing to the miserable battery life right out of the box. Obviously changing setting in the phone software help quite a bit, but I feel like this charger and battery setup help significantly. I'm going to throw the fully charged original battery in tomorrow, and see what kind of performance I get out of it. I'm betting it will be much improved.
Apparently I can't post links on my thread because I am a new user. Just search ebay for chichitec and check out there store. I'm not affiliated with these people in any way. I just happen to be pleased with their product and figured I should share this for any other users that are frustrated with battery life on their EVO.
I just got it (though from another seller).
Figured it was worth the $20 to see if a different battery can help my situation.
I'm at 24 hours up time 3 hours of awake time and still have 26% left. Plus I've got two fully charged spares. Battery problem solved.
Did you actually get red batteries?
They're not exactly the same with the HTC logo, but they are red.
What are the eBay item numbers you guys used?
This is from the same seller for one battery and the charger. He basically charges $10 for each item.
http://cgi.ebay.com/HTC-EVO-4G-BATT...ewItem&pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item4aa320f7db
And I am convinced that the poor EVO battery life (stock) has to do with using the phone to charge the battery. I charged the original HTC battery with the included charger and I am at exactly 40% battery remaining with 24:37 up time and 3:05 awake time.
So much better than before.
That's why people are using the method from the forum where they charge their battery 10 times to "condition" it. That definitely helped me, but using this external charger is even better.
ckombo said:
And I am convinced that the poor EVO battery life (stock) has to do with using the phone to charge the battery. I charged the original HTC battery with the included charger and I am at exactly 40% battery remaining with 24:37 up time and 3:05 awake time.
So much better than before.
That's why people are using the method from the forum where they charge their battery 10 times to "condition" it. That definitely helped me, but using this external charger is even better.
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Are all the people who brag about 24-31 hours battery time sitting with like 3 hours of actual up time for that period? if so no wonder i dont last any where near that i am usually done at 12 hours with about 6 hours up time.
I consider 3 hours over 24 hours to be very light usage just wondering if that is the reason why no matter what i do i ant get any where close to some of these peoples times.
I wasn't trying to brag. I was just happy to finally get what I consider to be a great improvement over my original battery life. I wish I had more time to use my phone that many hours in the day. Seeing that I don't, this setup works good for me. I know this isn't amazing battery life given my light usage, but so much better than stock out of the box. I haven't rooted yet, and I'm not very conservative with settings that drain the battery.
And to answer your question, yes, that's why your times are shorter, but it seems like you should be getting more. If I have a day where I get more up time, I'll post the numbers.
Hello guys,
I have a GSM Galaxy Nexus running the latest Android 4.2.1 Officialy from Google. I hae bought an original extended battery for it, but the issue is that it seems that it holds less juice than the original one, that came with the phone.
With the default battery, i get around 3 hours of screen on and with the extended one, i barely get 2:40 minutes. Tried this a couple of times.
What's the matter with it ? Do i need to calibrate it somehow ?
I have the same battery and had the same issue. After using it for about a week it started working better. What I suggest is charge it all the way up and then use it until it completely goes dead then fully charge it again. Do this a few times then you should notice the difference which isn't huge but I'm averaging about 4-5 hours more than standard now.
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I did this allready, and there's no improovement.
I have been using this batter for over 1 month now.
calibachrome said:
I have the same battery and had the same issue. After using it for about a week it started working better. What I suggest is charge it all the way up and then use it until it completely goes dead then fully charge it again. Do this a few times then you should notice the difference which isn't huge but I'm averaging about 4-5 hours more than standard now.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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With Li-ion batteries, this should make no difference what so ever. It should get better over time. From what I've researched, you should never let a li-ion battery fully die. When it hits 20% - 30% fully charge and then don't charge again until you hit 20%. There are only so many charging cycles on a battery.
You might have something constantly running in the background that is eating your battery. Try juice defender, it drastically improved my stand by time.
What i was saying:
The stock battery holds a charge of ~3 hours of screen on time
The extended battery holds a charge that lasts less than 3 hours witch is strange because it haves a bigger capacity.
Is there any way to reset the baattery stats ? Or to reset the battery count ? Something like that ?
The whole "wipe battery stats" thing found in CWM is useless. Confirmed to be by a developer at google.
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...-battery-stats-does-not-improve-battery-life/
I see. Anything else i can try ?
Correction on the TITLE 4200 not 4300 sorry
The problem
Battery. it 40% in less than 12h
The set up
SgsIII stock rom
Ive been running windows 8 launcher(a week), apex launcher
Hyperion 4200 battery
Most charges are 8/9hrs
I kill most apps with holding home than the trash can.
Here what ive noticed in the last 2to 3 weeks ive been getting super crapp battery life. I was getting 1day +10hrs on moderate use
And now ive been lucky to get 12hrs on this battery. When im out at work I turn wifi off gps off and screen rotation off.
I also noticed a couple of times when I took it off charge it showed 100% then in 10min it was down to 88% and steadly dropping.
Is there a way to recalibrate the battery.
I don't know if its the exact same battery you have, but I've been using this Hyperion for a month now and I'm starting to have problems with it too:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00851RT28/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00
For the first 3 weeks it worked totally fine, charged to 100% in a reasonable time, etc. But now it takes a REALLY long time to charge. And it only charges to 98% instead of 100. Also, the battery drains a lot faster than it did the first 3 weeks.
I'm running stock everything.
Killed all background apps to make sure that it wasnt the cause for battery drain too.
Basically as title reads. I've been having extreme battery drain. I thought it might have been my battery that was shot, so I bought a new one, as well as a charger. I even had a massive battery (don't know the mAh off the top of my head, and it isn't with me- but it was so large that it came with its own new backing) that also seemed to drain quickly. It seems the original battery would last 2-3 hours with barely any usage (a text or two; checking the time) and with regular usage (googling, reddit, texts) would be an hour. The large battery lasted 3-4 with barely any usage and 1-3 with usage. WiFi is off as well as GPS.. Only apps (besides what regularly runs) running are Handcent, Chrome, clock. That's all.
It also seems to discharge when charging and using my phone at the same time, so I have to leave it alone completely while it charges... And it charges really, really slowly. The large battery took 12 hours to fully charge last time I charged it. (I got a new one yesterday, seems my battery is still dying extremely quickly).
Here is what I am running on my phone.
Here is the new battery I ordered for it that I'm currently using.
I also use this to try to extend my battery life to a normal amount.
I am also waiting for this to come in the mail to help juice up my battery life to get through a day at work.
I bought a charger by RocketFish a while back at Best Buy which is what I used for a while before going to default S3 charger (brand new, I was originally using my S2 charger). Nothing seems to be helping.
So all in all, is my phone shot? Is there anything I can do to fix it? I'm not sure I want to go out and buy an S5 (especially with Samsung being so closed about bootloaders now). What can I do?
I'm using CM11 on 4.4.4
Well some people have complaints about Cyan's battery life so have you tried taking back to stock?
tl;dr: Got a new battery. I've seen lots of posts around on how to reset the battery stats so the phone "knows" how to accurately gauge how much batter is left. Is that necessary with a new battery?
I upgraded to stock pie about a month or so ago. Since then, my phone randomly freezes and reboots 5-10 times per day. It's not an app causing it as it does it the same thing in safe mode. It happens when the phone is plugged in also. I thought maybe it was the battery, so I got a new one installed. It's still doing it even after the new battery. I've seen lots of posts around on how to reset the battery stats so the phone "knows" how to accurately gauge how much batter is left. Is that necessary with a new battery?
What Is your screen on time with the new battery? do you recomend replace the battery?
Jumping in, 6 months old device, battery still has full capacity.
Marco1428 said:
What Is your screen on time with the new battery? do you recomend replace the battery?
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I don't really remember what it was before I had the battery replaced. SOT was definitely quite a bit lower than when new. The phone was over a year and half old and I'm a pretty heavy user so it was charge cycles A LOT. IIRC, Accubattery showed it was holding about 75% of original charge. It definitely feels, like the new battery as a couple more(if not more) hours of SOT now.
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I don't really remember what it was before I had the battery replaced. SOT was definitely quite a bit lower than when new. The phone was over a year and half old and I'm a pretty heavy user so it was charge cycles A LOT. IIRC, Accubattery showed it was holding about 75% of original charge. It definitely feels, like the new battery as a couple more(if not more) hours of SOT now.
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Hi there.
Was wondering if u have replaced the battery yourself. And it survived the procedure alright. I am now having the same stats - accubattery shows 75% health.
Should I go for it? Scared as hell