I bought my Xperia Arc S LT18 in April 2012. Up until now, my phone has served me well. As with most modern smartphones, the battery will start to die. And I'm in the marker for a new battery, however. Last night, I noticed my phone would not charge, so I decided to just turn the phone off and go to sleep, assuming I would have at lease some battery left. I was wrong.
My phone was dead, after much time and effort, I managed to turn my phone on and wiggle the charger around enough so it could get a connection and charge. However, the charge does not hold. It will get to around about 3-5% then just drain, as if I unplugged the USB cable. I've tried everything I can think of to try and speed up the process of charging (Offline mode, Power saver underclock (currently at 456MHz) lowest screen brightness etc.) but it will only get to about 4% charge. I get the I need a new battery but this is just ridicules.
I've ran out of options, I'm going to bed soon and I'm going to leave it on charge over night.
In case it matters I have the stock battery, used many chargers and USB cables over the time I've had my phone, using the Ultimate HD custom ROM.
Not sure if this is allowed but bumping, I'm at my wits end and I really have no clue what the next move is.
I've left it on charge all day and the problem is still occurring. Should I buy a new battery?
I've just bought one of these (See attachment, under 10 posts..)
These capchas are the worst, 5 in a row I've failed/skipped ¬_¬
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I'm still relatively new to the whole android platform. Evo being my first. Why does the evo not sleep when charging? I have the issue of rapid battery drain when I unplug the phone from 100-90 in a matter of minutes. This bugs me to no end. The only way I am able to get around that is to watch for the phone to ding 100 and immediately unplug it and turn it off.
I believe that, and (correct me if im wrong), if your phone is awake, it is being used to its full capacity all of the time. CPU is running and doing whatever it does that drains the battery like it does when its unplugged and being used by the user.
Since the phone doesn't trickle charge it stops charging at 100% until it gets down to ~90% (all the while still reporting that it is at 100%). It stands to reason that if the phone doesnt sleep while its on the charger, its using this cpu power and this is the culprit of the rapid battery drain, and to that end, the culprit of a lot of people's battery woes.
food for thought i guess. that's my take on it.
There are numerous discussions about the charging thing. Search, or at least Google. The most intriguing answer I ever saw to this was that the charging system was set up to protect the Li-Ion battery from degradation by not cramming it full of charge all the time. (The OP on that was a bit more technical, but you get the idea.)
If it bugs you that much, you could root your phone, flash a ROM that is undervolted and compatible with SetCPU, install that, and then set a profile up so your phone is underclocked when it's charging / charged.
I searched xda prior to posting specifically about sleeping while plugged in. My query isn't neccisarily about charging bit rather the sleep function and awake state of the phone while its pretending to charge.
I'm curious as to whether this is hardware related or not. For example when the phone reaches 100% and stops charge could the phone then actually begin to sleep. Unless its physically impossible for the phone to sleep while there is a usb chord plugged into it.
A little test I did with this over the past two days. At night I charged to full and took the phone off the charge and went to bed. I woke up and only lost about 4% all night and was able to use the phone on the way to work never going below 90%
The next night I left the phone on charge all night. Wake up take it off the charger and within 10 minutes I'm down to 92%
Keep in mind I'm not blaming charging on this. The first night lasted longer off of the charger than the night on the charger simply because the phone was allowed to sleep through the night.
I could be wrong
you can set the options it will say 'screen stay on while plugged up' or something to the like
or when you plug it in, just push your lock button (the top power key)
also you can get a brightness widget and put it on your home screen. that way you can still have your screen on while charging but it will be dimmed or whatever setting you set it too.
hope this helps!
Your screen being on vs off while charging does not factor into the asleep vs awake time of the phone.
for an example of this, a freshly rebooted phone on the charger, with the screen off for 5 minutes, will have an "up" time of 5 minutes and an "awake" time of 5 minutes.
this is true while the phone is plugged in and the screen is on or off.
simply put, your awake time on the phone is always going up as long as the phone is plugged in, double this with the fact that the phone stops charging at 100% and you have constant drain even when plugged in.
the phone shuts off at 100% to protect the battery. If you want your phone asleep then turn it off at night. that is the only way to put the phone to sleep try searching app market. Other then that the only other way is to push the power/lock button at the top
Mobile internet fail. Sorry double post
ok, over the last week or so ive had this issue, gradually getting worse...
my battery will charge to around 40-45% and then charging will slow right down.
two hours later, it will be on around 50% if im lucky, and about 3 more further hours before i hit 60% (this is some of the time, other times, it just remains on its current charge%)
if i leave it overnight for about 10hours or so, highest it goes to now is about 73%, but this is rare, usually 45-50%ish.
ive tested with htc ac wall charger, htc usb, blackberry charger, car charger and a random microusb wallcharger. all have same issue.
when tested with two friends desire hd's on different days, my battery charged perfectly, and at the normal gradient speed over the % range. and my phone reads it correctly at the 100%-98% when back in my phone after change back.
i thought it was down to my phone, just dont know if its rom or hardware. shud i factory restore, or claim on insurance?
i have another issue here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18480603&posted=1#post18480603
which also applies to the question of restore or insurance...
thanks
What Rom are you using, i am using runny 2.2 only 62% charge in 6 hours
9 hours later on battery only upto 68% i have amazing battery life now
i'm using runny 2.2.....left it on charge for 2 hours with phone on, but wifi and everything off and it had only gone up 2% ! !
Turned phone off and plugged in charger, 30 mins later, only went up 1% ! !
72% charge at this point.
So took it off charge, put it in my pocket, went upstairs to bed, turned it on to set alarm and it said 100% on battery....weird!!
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Lol this is an issue with calibration. The battery is charging but the software doesnt report it.
You have to charge the phone for as long as possible so you know it is on 100% whether the software says it or not, go into CWM, wipe the battery stats and then let the battery drain fully until it shuts down by itself. Then plug it in and leave it until you know for certain it is at 100%. If the green light comes on leave it for an additional half an hour. Then it will be fixed.
ive only recently got this handset, as last one was replaced on insurance a month or so ago, and its runuing on stock rom with latest updates....?
My phone has always charged slow using USB instead of a home charger. But now even on the home charger it can't keep up with the usage. It's literally draining the phone faster than it can charge it.
I've tried 3 different home chargers, 1 of the 3 will actually charge it, but it's very slow
I installed a backup I took 1.5 months ago, and it didn't help
I just put a new battery in and it didn't help either. Still draining fast.
Phone isn't getting hot, so I don't think it's a processor or radio issue.
The night before last I noticed it happening when I put it on the charger, and I took a look at the battery settings and was switching from charged to discharging status about 10 times per second. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and it started working just fine.
Running CM9 HONO! 8.4. It's always been a great ROM.
Also, on the battery status, it shows that it's charging on USB even if it's on the home charger.
What's going on?
Ok, cleaned the terminal out. There was a bit of fuzz down in the bottom. Also scraped off the terminals and used some alcohol. Phone says it's charging on (AC) now instead of (USB), so that's good. Hopefully it was just a dirty terminal.
That fixed it. It's fully charged and ready to go. Glad it was just a little bit of lint.
I did read through a bunch of battery issue threads. But I think mine is unique. At least I didn't see anything.
When used normally, battery life seems to be typical. With moderate usage, I get about 6-8 hours or so.
However, I switch phones alot (currently building a new website, including mobile) so I have been using my One X with no sim card. Airplane mode with wifi on. Doing so, after about an hour or so of only using the phone a minute here and a minute there (just to test my website changes) the phone will use about 30-40% of its battery.
But the worst thing is; when I am done, I power off the phone. Most recently it had 60% charge when I shut it down on Thursday. Today I went to power it on, and the battery was dead. To the point it wouldn't even power on when I plugged it in. It took about 20 minutes before it had enough charge to power on. I checked usage, and Google Services is 72%, Android OS 8%, Chrome 5%, Internet 4%, HTC Sense 1%, Android System 1%.
When I charge it, it will only charge as USB. Even using the usb cable and plug that came with it, it won't charge as AC like my Nexus would. Which isn't a huge deal, but it takes most of the day for it to fully charge.
I was just wondering if the above is all normal. I bought it used. It's a stock AT&T phone. No rooting or customization. OS is up to date.
Hi, recently I replaced that battery of my mi9se by myself (so it is possible that I screwed up in some way), afterwards the new battery started to last incredibly less than before, having a very strange behaviour concerning its charge level: let's say the phone is charged to 100%, then in the next hour or so the battery drains normally, let's say to 80%, then it starts freefalling to 60/50% then the phone dies at 40/50%. When I connect the charger, apparently the battery is at a dead 0%, it takes very little time to recharge to 100% and the cycle continues.
Obviously this situation is not sustainable in any way, yesterday evening I was on a call with my gf, my phone died at 70%, I connected it to the charger and powered it up, as soon as it booted it was at 10%, then I disconnected it for flipping the connector and it died again... Another boot and it jumped straight to 43%. I don't know what to do...
The situation wasn't so critical at first, but I also tried to order a third battery, but the results are the same.
Another thing to note is that I also changed the charger pcb, the one onto it is soldered the usb-c connector, because it was flimsy af. I thought the cause of my problems may have been the crappy one, advertised as new but probably used, that I ordered from china. But I also tried to replace it with the old original one with no apparent changes besides the fact that now the charger doesn't remain plugged as an added bonus (that was the initial reason that led me to change it in the first place).
Software notes:
I'm currently running the latest official build of lineageOS, I could try to do a software update, but idk if it could change something...
I have root access with magisk (if some low level root operations are needed I should be able to perform them)
I was running Advanced Charging Controller (https://github.com/VR-25/acc), that I uninstalled yesterday when it came to my mind that it may be messing with the battery readings, but without success.
I should also note that I run several calibration cycles as advertised on many forums: charge to 100%, let it die by battery drain and charge it again to 100% without interruption and without powering it up. No improvements.
Sadly I study offsite and I left the old battery at home, so I have to wait till next friday if some solutions involve using the old battery.
Thanks for saving me and my phone, that, beside his battery, it still works like a charm! Switching to lineage seemed to give him another 2/3 years of life and I really wanted to keep it as long as it works.
Thank you very much for your time!