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Is this a hardware battery failure?

Hey folks,
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. I typically know what I'm doing, but my old GNex is acting VERY strangely. I gave it to my finance to use since I now have a Nexus 4 for myself (selfish, right?).
The first week she used it, it was just fine. The last few days, though, the battery has been absolutely tanking. And I'm at a loss for words. I've tried re-calibration, factory restoring it with stock images, running stock / Franco kernels, nothing helps. And it's deep sleeping just fine! See the images below.
Am I looking at a possible battery failure? I want to rule out everything else before I spend money on replacing it. The phone isn't even that old though... it was already an RMA replacement, so the battery is barely 3-4 months old. It should not have failed yet, but that would be my luck.
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Edit: I can get other examples if need be. She's had under 5-10 minutes maximum of screen on time and seen it go from 100% to 0% in under 5 hours in at least one instance. We live in a great HSPA+ signal area (I had use 2g only checked the day I took these just to try it), so that's not it. And it's getting 90%+ time in deep sleep. I'm absolutely baffled!

new battery is not that much $$$, and nothing wrong with 2, or if you know anyone that has a gnex pop there batt in and see

b1337 said:
new battery is not that much $$$, and nothing wrong with 2, or if you know anyone that has a gnex pop there batt in and see
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Nope, I don't know anyone else around here with a GSM non-Verizon one. I know batteries are cheap, but I'm extremely broke

where do you live?
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If you tried with a stock rom with the minimum apps installed you have the answer. It's not kernel/rom/app related, the last thing you can do is try a new battery, as you have discarded everything else I think it could be the problem.
Best regards.

peikojose said:
If you tried with a stock rom with the minimum apps installed you have the answer. It's not kernel/rom/app related, the last thing you can do is try a new battery, as you have discarded everything else I think it could be the problem.
Best regards.
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Thanks.
I even tried doing a factory reset and not even signing in to a Google account. I let it sit there 100% stock, syncing to nothing with the screen off, and it dropped about 40% in 2 hours. This is so frustrating.

c0LdFire said:
Thanks.
I even tried doing a factory reset and not even signing in to a Google account. I let it sit there 100% stock, syncing to nothing with the screen off, and it dropped about 40% in 2 hours. This is so frustrating.
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Has this been resolved? I am having the same exact issue... I have also tried everything and definitely need help. I even bought a new battery thinking it would help and i am having the same issue with the new battery.
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shmoozie said:
Has this been resolved? I am having the same exact issue... I have also tried everything and definitely need help. I even bought a new battery thinking it would help and i am having the same issue with the new battery.
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ARGH. Nope! My new battery came in two days ago and it's having the same exact issue still. I'm at a loss for words at this point.
Yours is significantly better then mine at least. It's dead in under 20-30 minutes of screen on time in a perfect signal area.
Any advice?

c0LdFire said:
ARGH. Nope! My new battery came in two days ago and it's having the same exact issue still. I'm at a loss for words at this point.
Yours is significantly better then mine at least. It's dead in under 20-30 minutes of screen on time in a perfect signal area.
Any advice?
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Ahhhhhhh... This is horrible. My last resort is to unroot but i have the NTT DoCoMo version of the gnex and I'm afraid it'll lock back up. I'm thinking i might buy one of those huge extended batteries from eBay or just get the nexus 4. This is a bummer. At least we're not alone haha
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shmoozie said:
Ahhhhhhh... This is horrible. My last resort is to unroot but i have the NTT DoCoMo version of the gnex and I'm afraid it'll lock back up. I'm thinking i might buy one of those huge extended batteries from eBay or just get the nexus 4. This is a bummer. At least we're not alone haha
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Don't bother unrooting. I tried doing a full factory restore with no luck.

c0LdFire said:
Don't bother unrooting. I tried doing a full factory restore with no luck.
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I really hope we can get to the bottom of this soon
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takes fuzzy picture and then shuts down

I am wondering if someone here can help me.
I have an unrooted SGIII from Sprint and have had the phone since 2012.
In the last update, to kitkat at least I have noticed some serious battery drain...in particular when I take pictures, the pictures get very grainy and then boom, the phone shuts down. Not cool.
do i need a new battery? I have read all the information about saving battery infact I can hardly see my screen my brightness is so low.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Try a factory reset after backup what you want.
If that doesn't help, try Odining the stock ND8 tar from a PC, in the development (non-original) section.
[BATTERY] Plasma Battery! ??? & wickeddecimalbarwide_colors
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I can't tell you that a new battery will fix your problems. But, I replaced my battery after 9 months of use and I was amazed at the difference. Try borrowing someone's battery and see if it makes a difference? If you buy a new battery and that doesn't solve the problem, you've ruled out the battery and now have 2 batteries to switch between
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I have this exact same problem. Any time the battery is below 40-50%, the camera could cause the phone to shut down at any time. Really, anything will cause it to shut down, but it seems like the camera will do it every single time. The phone will not stay on after that point unless you plug it in for even 5 minutes, at which point it tells you your battery is 60-70%.
This is the reason I rooted and then flashed the Odin stock ND8 the other day (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...rint-galaxy-s3-complete-boot-process-t2829181). I then flashed to Wicked X v7.3. It has only been two days, but the same symptoms persist. My wife has the same phone and experiences the same problems, which all started upon the update to 4.4.2.
If anybody has any ideas, I'm all ears.

huntley said:
I have this exact same problem. Any time the battery is below 40-50%, the camera could cause the phone to shut down at any time. Really, anything will cause it to shut down, but it seems like the camera will do it every single time. The phone will not stay on after that point unless you plug it in for even 5 minutes, at which point it tells you your battery is 60-70%.
This is the reason I rooted and then flashed the Odin stock ND8 the other day (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...rint-galaxy-s3-complete-boot-process-t2829181). I then flashed to Wicked X v7.3. It has only been two days, but the same symptoms persist. My wife has the same phone and experiences the same problems, which all started upon the update to 4.4.2.
If anybody has any ideas, I'm all ears.
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how long have you guys had your phone any water damage? hard falls things like that?

6th_Hokage said:
how long have you guys had your phone any water damage? hard falls things like that?
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Got the phone in December 2012, as did my wife. No hard falls that I can remember. Up until recently I had it in an Otter Box Commuter case. I took it out after I updated and started pulling the battery to try to get things to reset (never worked and like the smaller profile so I didn't put the case back on).
Tonight I installed the Xposed critical battery shutdown module and also Battery Calibration recommended in these posts http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2781926 and (can't find the thread recommending Battery Calibration by Nema, but whatever). After I installed the module (and I think activated it), I ran the battery down until the phone shut off. Will charge to 100% tonight and start calibration in the morning.

The module does not appear to be working,as the phone shut down at 28% with no prior warnings that it prevented shutdown. That's unfortunate. To activate the module, do I just click the check mark and reboot?

from what I've seen water damage and hard falls can have a heavy impact on the OS(not like crack screen or digitizer but just a hard fall and phone survives) well except on water proof/shock proof phones.....but for the most part if a factory reset/Odin/Heimdall/what ever method back to stock you use doesn't fix the problem its a hardware issue

All's better after new battery
I just wanted to post a followup to my issue. After the shutdown mod and battery calibration didn't help, I bought an Anker replacement battery from Amazon. Since my wife had the same problem, I bought a two pack for $28. I charged the battery overnight and then in the morning hit the battery calibration button.
I noticed a difference right away - I was only down 7% after a few hours at work. My goal was to let the battery run down until the phone shut off, which happened at about the 30 hour mark with my playing HD youtube videos for the last hour so it would die. The battery life indicator actually counted all the way down to 1% before shutting off, which is a stark contrast to the 30% that had been occurring with the old battery.
With the new battery, I've also used the camera when it was under 30% with no problems.
My recommendation for anyone that has similar problems is to get a new battery. They are a hell of a lot cheaper than a new phone, so it's worth a shot.

[Q] Very strange battery behavior.

Hi all... first post, first problem with android... and hopefully a long time here in xda!
So I have the T320 (8.4 pro) and I have a strange problem with my battery. Is not only that it lasts no more than 4 hours (screen), the problem come by low and high battery %.
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By low, the table shuts down and after starting it again, it shows between 5 and 10% battery!!
Something similar happens by charging... it shows 90% and no change... and after a reboot it shows 100%.
Is my battery dying? Should I wipe and restart from zero? Cyanogen?
The speed how fast battery drains is also extreme compared to stand-by times... but I assume this is more or less a problem of this tablet.
Many thanks in advance!

parseval43 said:
Hi all... first post, first problem with android... and hopefully a long time here in xda!
So I have the T320 (8.4 pro) and I have a strange problem with my battery. Is not only that it lasts no more than 4 hours (screen), the problem come by low and high battery %.
By low, the table shuts down and after starting it again, it shows between 5 and 10% battery!!
Something similar happens by charging... it shows 90% and no change... and after a reboot it shows 100%.
Is my battery dying? Should I wipe and restart from zero? Cyanogen?
The speed how fast battery drains is also extreme compared to stand-by times... but I assume this is more or less a problem of this tablet.
Many thanks in advance!
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Having similar issues. Found mine dead out of nowhere one day. Never had custom ROM on it. Did factory reset now it seems like it doesn't want to charge .... Charges VERY slowly if at all.
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i have the same issue, dropped from 50 to 15 all of a sudden , will try calibration , anyone else noticed this ?i picked up mine used so unsure whats the issue

i found better battery life after i did a factory reset. i bought it new and set it up and since then had 1 Sammy update but last week i reset it and it clearly made a difference on my 10.1. yesterday i had 2 hours screen time and on battery for 2 day and some hours and had 60% left.

Add mine to the list....seems to be doing the same thing here. Haven't been able to sort it out yet.

Took the back off mine tonight and reseated the battery connector. Then charged like below. First to time in a while it charged up like this.

can you post a pic of videos of how to pry it open ? hopefully simple with a prying tool

cletusarrarr said:
can you post a pic of videos of how to pry it open ? hopefully simple with a prying tool
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I just very carefully went around it with one of those guitar like plastic openers i have laying around from the many tablet/phone repair kits i have used. I probably rebooted it 5 times before i finally popped it apart... thing just did not want to charge. This was the first time i saw it ramp up 1% at a time in a while. The other thing i noticed it was doing was jumping from ~70% to 100% instantly.... The graph showed it too. I didn't believe that was really happening.

some pics would help , is it between the screen and the metallic part or the back and the metallic part ?

cletusarrarr said:
some pics would help , is it between the screen and the metallic part or the back and the metallic part ?
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No. The faux leather cover comes off.
This... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2710711
pro 8.4 Teardown

hasnt mentioned there how to open it tho

cletusarrarr said:
hasnt mentioned there how to open it tho
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Yup... like i said.. guitar pick opener and gently popping the faux leather back off. Its not like removing an LCD from a phone.

cletusarrarr said:
hasnt mentioned there how to open it tho
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Opened mine up because of the battery charging stalls and reseated my battery. I bought this tab 2 weeks ago used and this is the first time it has charged to 100 without me forcing it too! Its def worth doing if ur battery stalls!!

strive53 said:
Opened mine up because of the battery charging stalls and reseated my battery. I bought this tab 2 weeks ago used and this is the first time it has charged to 100 without me forcing it too! Its def worth doing if ur battery stalls!!
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Mine has been really good now for days too...any hint of battery probs are gone!
I suspect an app did this too. I was on cm when it started...others were stock. Chrome or some other common Google app put our tabs in a funky state.

Replaced Battery twice...strange behavior

I ordered a new OEM battery. Replaced the original. The phone charges normally to 100%, but during use it gets to 20% and shuts off due to low power. Just shuts down. You have to plug it in for about 5 mins before you can even turn it on again. when it comes on it is at 1%. I went back to the provider and complained that he sent me a bum battery....they sent me another....same issue! So I think its a calibration problem.
Anyone have ideas?

where did you buy the battery ?.... sounds like a knockoff battery problem

cwoodffr said:
I ordered a new OEM battery. Replaced the original. The phone charges normally to 100%, but during use it gets to 20% and shuts off due to low power. Just shuts down. You have to plug it in for about 5 mins before you can even turn it on again. when it comes on it is at 1%. I went back to the provider and complained that he sent me a bum battery....they sent me another....same issue! So I think its a calibration problem.
Anyone have ideas?
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Well, did u try to recalibrate it?

Boosted_01 R said:
where did you buy the battery ?.... sounds like a knockoff battery problem
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I don't think its a knock off. Vendor has also been great in replacing.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-Origina...Q-/271420199825?ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:US:1123

AndreIrawan97 said:
Well, did u try to recalibrate it?
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The only reference I can find to xperia battery recalibration are steps that are for versions with removable batteries or steps that don't work on the ZL (one set of actions including holding the power button and up volume for 10 secs where there is no response from the phone)
Do you know of any process for ZL that is not root required?

cwoodffr said:
The only reference I can find to xperia battery recalibration are steps that are for versions with removable batteries or steps that don't work on the ZL (one set of actions including holding the power button and up volume for 10 secs where there is no response from the phone)
Do you know of any process for ZL that is not root required?
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Have u try to use an app called "Battery Calibration" or something like that?
U need root to do it

I bought this one.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Internal-Li.../191109145386?ssPageName=ADME:L:eek:C:US:3160
Used for 2 weeks. It works as original so far.

These 100% OEM batteries you see selling on Ebay are 99.9% fake.... its luck if you get them to work and if you do, be glad if you get more than a month out of it.... Get a proper battery from Sony... Ebay is good for a lot of things.... batteries are not one of those things, been there done that lol

cwoodffr said:
I ordered a new OEM battery. Replaced the original. The phone charges normally to 100%, but during use it gets to 20% and shuts off due to low power. Just shuts down. You have to plug it in for about 5 mins before you can even turn it on again. when it comes on it is at 1%. I went back to the provider and complained that he sent me a bum battery....they sent me another....same issue! So I think its a calibration problem.
Anyone have ideas?
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i have the same problem as yours,100% same but it happened to me after installing custom rom on android 4.3..
battery jump from 20% to 0% immediately.. with no mercy, phone shuts off at any cost and start again at 1% after turned on and charged.
i still use the original battery (not replaced it yet) and in battery health test said it's good, no need to replace it.
now i'm trying to find the fix by myself.. maybe i have messed up something with my phone..

Here's an update of my device..
Finally, no need to wait for 20% or below to shuts off..
This problem become more critical to my device, somebody help me!
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The right side of the graph show battery drops immediately from 50% to 0%.. No Mercy
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Same with me after reboot from recovery
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daniLaLaLaLaLa said:
Here's an update of my device..
Finally, no need to wait for 20% or below to shuts off..
This problem become more critical to my device, somebody help me!
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The right side of the graph show battery drops immediately from 50% to 0%.. No Mercy
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Do you still have the problem?

cwoodffr said:
Do you still have the problem?
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Yup, but not worst as before after i let it discharge and charge again about 4 times. Now it's off by itself if battery reach 25 and below..
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Boosted_01 R said:
.... Get a proper battery from Sony...
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Does Sony even sell "proper" batteries? I'm pretty sure would would have to send the phone in for an expensive repair.

23-10 said:
Does Sony even sell "proper" batteries? I'm pretty sure would would have to send the phone in for an expensive repair.
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Yes I would be interested in obtaining an "official" replacement battery just in case if at all possible. How difficult is the replacement?

Update 4.4.4 solved my battery problem.. See the graf, it's drop normaly now.
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daniLaLaLaLaLa said:
Update 4.4.4 solved my battery problem.. See the graf, it's drop normaly now.
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Upgrade to 283 over the air seemed to reset the battery calibration. Now runs right to 0 before shutting down. Still no hell from a total battery life perspective but at least its not shutting down at 12% like it was.

15% battery and phone is "dead"

Hi guys,
I have a problem with... When battery drops down to 15, my phone turns off, and 46 six aps are being optimized. I'm not alone with this problem, my friend with HTC... has the same. Any solutions?
And now "com.google.process.gapps has been stopped and i must do hard reset.
Help guys.

Do you have a custom rom?

ZpanicZ said:
Do you have a custom rom?
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Oryginal

I have the same problem, and im on a custom ROM! So annoying

Yea me too. I guess it's my fault or something like this. Sometimes phone can handle 4%, sometimes it'll dead at 11% and so on.

woloss said:
Yea me too. I guess it's my fault or something like this. Sometimes phone can handle 4%, sometimes it'll dead at 11% and so on.
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The battery meter isn't that accurate, its just an estimation based on the battery voltage versus how you use your phone (and the resulting "typical" battery drain). You shouldn't expect it to be accurate to the being within the 1-2 (or even 5) percent range. Shutting off at 4 to 11% is not unusual, and not surprising.
You shouldn't be draining your battery down that low on a regular basis. Its bad for long term battery life. Good rule of thumb for Li ion batteries is short and frequent charge cycles.
However, optimizing apps and/or google process stopped after a shutdown (due to low battery) is not normal. That's a different matter.

I have this problem, plus some of my settings get reset such as my wallpaper, ringtone, notification tone, boomsound (off to on), screen timeout, screen brightness, whatsapp (keeps asking me to chose my backup options and no messages come through until then). This has never happened before and I'm not sure why it's only happening now. I'm not purposely trying to drain the battery or anything, it's just that sometimes on the road I am unable to charge it and it'll just die out midway when previously, that extra 15% could've lasted me for another 30 minutes, just enough for me to reach my destination.

The same problem.. But the bigger problem for me, it's reseting my settings..

It is a terrible problem , I return to KitKat and my battery reaches 1% , and so normal ... I'll make a test with lollipop .

Yes, same problem! So glad someone made a thread for it. It's frustrating and happens literally every time.
Experienced on both the stock and a custom rom. Any one knows any fixes? Is it because of the 'battery life reduces over time' thing? My phone is 2 years old now

KAiA92 said:
The same problem.. But the bigger problem for me, it's reseting my settings..
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That seems to be a problem with all htc ones (m7, m8, m9) as they get older, dont worry its normal :laugh:

ive been experiencing this for a while, clear dalvik cache and let android do the whole rebuilding thing at the start and you should be fine...as for the battery fix ive just learnt to live with it, 15% is the new 2%!!!

I'm on this problem since a lot of time, as i was one of the first in the community to report it.
Seems like an end-of-life issue for one m8 and htc one phones line.
In my case i had a camera and charge board issue too, so in rma htc changed them, and now the phone is charging and quick-charging like it must have to. But i have to be careful when near 15% of battery because using camera, flashlight or others power-expensive features instantly turns the phone off, causing a database mismatch on the next boot (for marshmallow) and consequently the loss of data.
If the instant-poweroff occurs during boot, there is a massive loss of data and a lot of force closes on the next boot.
Nothing to do here i think, sadly.

In kitkat and lollipop battery reach at 1% ...
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I have a fix for this as it happened to me and I tried a battery calibration app from the app store... I thought what your thinking now but after finding bad sectors and "repairing" it did actually work

solve the problem of battery and loss of settings , change the battery of my htc, now everything is fine , 3 days that the battery is discharged properly , I hope this information will help someone.

thats kinda "cool" to see many people have same problem as i do. atleast it wont run u crazy as before
1. sometimes phone dies when battery is 15%, and sometimes it dies when around 4% 2% or even 1%
2.resetting settings after phone dies!
so is the solution, to change battery? any better way that doesnt need to spend money?

Replace battery
how did you do this? does this actually work?
https://www.fixez.com/blog/how-to-replace-htc-one-m8-battery/

grafik2 said:
how did you do this? does this actually work?
https://www.fixez.com/blog/how-to-replace-htc-one-m8-battery/
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Yes I've done this a couple of weeks back. The replacement is actually less hard as it seems.
But finding an original replacement battery seems to be pretty hard - Even though the replacement I bought is HTC branded and looks genuine, I feel like it's actually draining a little faster than my old original. 12€ Ebay had too good to be true.
However the instant-shutoffs are now a thing of the past along with the database corruption, so I'm going to have to live with a little less battery life.
Or does anyone know of a provider for genuine batteries?