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Hey guys, I just got my HTC One X a few days ago and this is my third day running on this phone.
I wonder if giving it a first charge for 8 hours was needed to condition the battery and giving it as much battery life as possible.. Because when I first received the set, the set was without juice. So I charged it up till about 15% and I received a notification about an FOTA update and I went ahead with it.
After the phone reached slightly over 35%, I let the phone install the FOTA(while still at it's first charge) and it hanged halfway.
I didn't know what was happening so I tried rebooting the device(as removing the battery wasn't possible with the One X). After several tries of holding down the power buttons, I removed the microUSB cable attached to my phone and the phone went blank and it restarted by itself.. Take note that the battery was only at ~30% at that point of time..
And one thing I noticed when the phone didn't respond during the FOTA update was that the AC plug was not as hot as it was used to when charging.. Yeap, so does anyone know if I have actually 'damaged' the battery or maybe it's just the handset that's power hungry? Thanks!
PS, Thank you for taking your time to read this long wall of text and taking your time to reply to my query!
I'm not too sure what the problem is now. Is it about the power draw, or did you brick your phone and wondering if it was caused by a damage battery on your side?
ArmedandDangerous said:
I'm not too sure what the problem is now. Is it about the power draw, or did you brick your phone and wondering if it was caused by a damage battery on your side?
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Well, I'm just wondering if me not giving a proper 'first charge' has anything to do with it's poor battery life or it's just natural for the device to be this power hungry, haha.
id0n0van said:
Well, I'm just wondering if me not giving a proper 'first charge' has anything to do with it's poor battery life or it's just natural for the device to be this power hungry, haha.
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How much screen on time ate you getting?
You shouldn't charge while flashing the OTA.
I don't think you did any harm.
farnsbarns said:
How much screen on time ate you getting?
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I haven't been able to get any numbers yet because these few days I've been running the phone mostly plugged into the wall socket. Yeah.
I only had a two hour battery life after the first complete discharge and 8 hour recharge.
id0n0van said:
Well, I'm just wondering if me not giving a proper 'first charge' has anything to do with it's poor battery life or it's just natural for the device to be this power hungry, haha.
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Assuming your FOTA Succeed,
Try...
1. disable fast-boot (Settings > Power > Untick fastboot)
2. Power Off
3. Charge (until green / 100%)
4. Power On
5. enable back fast-boot
6. Hopefully you got real battery-stats already
I've noticed some improvement of the battery life of my phone after flashing it with a custom rom.
With a giant screen, a powerful processor, and an elegant packaging, pour battery life is kind of expected, for me I've put chargers almost in every corner of my home, at work, and in my car.
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I normally get about 3.5 hours ++ screen time on a full charge, auto brightness.
I am getting 5 hours of on screen time on my stock Rom. Is that possible to get more screen time like 9 hours on custom Rom ?
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I didnt charge it when I first got it either. I booted it instantly and used it untill the battery was completety drained and the phone shut down untill I recharged it completely and my battery life is horrible. The worst of any HTC one x so I wonder if I might have damaged the phone aswel??
forumhookersdotcom said:
I am getting 5 hours of on screen time on my stock Rom. Is that possible to get more screen time like 9 hours on custom Rom ?
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No.
okini said:
I didnt charge it when I first got it either. I booted it instantly and used it untill the battery was completety drained and the phone shut down untill I recharged it completely and my battery life is horrible. The worst of any HTC one x so I wonder if I might have damaged the phone aswel??
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Charging it when you first get it does nothing. If you have such bad battery life it is probably a faulty phone.
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When I first got mine I ran it till it died then did a full charge so that shouldn't matter at all.
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My battery was ok on 1.26 then updated to 1.28 and it went beyond awful but after about a week of use on 1.28 my battery has improved a lot... Bought an external charger while was waiting on next update but before I received the charger battery went boss !! So my guess is give it a few days and don't be inpatient with it as it will come around
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I'm having issues with my battery life. I'm also new to the Android platform -- well sort of, I've used CM9 on my HP Touchpad for a while now, but this is my first Android handset. I've had the phone for almost a week now, and I've noticed that I barely get around 9 hours of moderate use per charge. On average my on screen time is about 3.5 to 4 hours. That is terrible. My iPhone 4 is lasting twice as long as my HOX and I've had that thing for about 2 years now. Any tips on improving battery life?
Hi,
I bought my GSM galaxy nexus about 2 months back. I unlocked bootloader, rooted and installed stock JB, with franco.kernel. It worked fine for maybe a month. Then, charging the battery started maxing out at lower than 100%. Now, it does not ever charge beyond 82-83%. (in battery settings, it shows "82% - Not Charging" even with the stock chrger plugged in. I also charged using USb, the iPhone adapter, and another samsung charger.
I put this 82% charged battery in my friends GNex, and it showed 96% on his phone. It even charged to 100% without any hassles.
I put his phone's battery in my nexus. On his phone, it read 60%, on mine it showed 25%.
so, my phone's battery reading is off by almost 20-30%.
i wiped the phone FULLY, installed CM10, installed stock ROM, stock kernel, but nothing seemed to change this behaviour.
Any ideas which might help me, or do i send it to google? (which will be a lot of trouble since i dont live in the US).
Thanks.
Charge it fully ( in your case to 82%). Then boot into cwm recovery and try to clear the battery stats.
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thegtfusion said:
Charge it fully ( in your case to 82%). Then boot into cwm recovery and try to clear the battery stats.
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Battery stats has absolutely nothing to do with it. Charging his phone at only 4pm while having it gave down on an espresso colored end table would yield the exact same result.
No info related to battery charge is contained in that file. It is only a list of apps that have run on battery. Nothing more. Furthermore, the os periodically purges the file on its own.
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Just a curiosity, does your phone still lasts as long as 100%?
kyokeun1234 said:
Just a curiosity, does your phone still lasts as long as 100%?
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yes, i believe it does (It still gets me through the day, like before). I think it stops charging because the battery gives a feedback of being full, just dunno why the phone thinks its at that low percentage..
could juice defender have something to do with it?
samyg said:
yes, i believe it does (It still gets me through the day, like before). I think it stops charging because the battery gives a feedback of being full, just dunno why the phone thinks its at that low percentage..
could juice defender have something to do with it?
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Nope, Juice Defender only turns radios off and on. Nothing to do with how phone reads the battery %
May I ask what you have done to fix it?
kyokeun1234 said:
Nope, Juice Defender only turns radios off and on. Nothing to do with how phone reads the battery %
May I ask what you have done to fix it?
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I am unable to anything that can fix it. I have tried wiping battery stats (knowing it's useless), drained my battery and recharged, full wiped etc.
The reason i'm asking about juice defender is that i switched JD on some time back (on extreme mode). The battery was at 66% when i unplugged it and put JD on.
Since then, the battery reading has come UP to 70% (no charger connected, and it even shows discharging in the battery settings page).
I'm thinking i'll charge to whatever level it allows, then leave it for a day with juice defender on, maybe it'll go up to 100%.
Sorry that I cannot help you, but I've seen a lot of threads about this. I think you should search for them and see if there's an answer. I think that's the best choice until somebody comes up with something
silly question.. have you tried another battery? the problem could be the battery itself.
You have obviously a reading problem not a battery problem. Something got messed up somewhere. I recommend wipe clean your phone and bring it back to stock. If it works, start toying with it again, if not you are ready for warranty exchange
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samyg said:
Hi,
I bought my GSM galaxy nexus about 2 months back. I unlocked bootloader, rooted and installed stock JB, with franco.kernel. It worked fine for maybe a month. Then, charging the battery started maxing out at lower than 100%. Now, it does not ever charge beyond 82-83%. (in battery settings, it shows "82% - Not Charging" even with the stock chrger plugged in. I also charged using USb, the iPhone adapter, and another samsung charger.
I put this 82% charged battery in my friends GNex, and it showed 96% on his phone. It even charged to 100% without any hassles.
I put his phone's battery in my nexus. On his phone, it read 60%, on mine it showed 25%.
so, my phone's battery reading is off by almost 20-30%.
i wiped the phone FULLY, installed CM10, installed stock ROM, stock kernel, but nothing seemed to change this behaviour.
Any ideas which might help me, or do i send it to google? (which will be a lot of trouble since i dont live in the US).
Thanks.
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If you already flashed back the stock kernel and that doesn't fix it, I'd say your gnex has a hw issue.
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Petrovski80 said:
If you already flashed back the stock kernel and that doesn't fix it, I'd say your gnex has a hw issue.
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Or a battery problem
kyokeun1234 said:
Or a battery problem
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Thanks for the replies.
1. As i said, i put my battery in another Gnex, reading was much higher, and charged to 100%. I put my friends battery (at 60% on his GNex) in my phone, it showed 25%. Not a battery issue, i believe..
2. I wiped FULLY (including system, data, cache, dalvik, battery stats. everything except my storage) and went back to a rooted stock JB rom and kernel. no change. so i switched back to CM10.
So.. i guess hardware issues?
Also, could you help me out by giving a link with this problem elsewhere, i cant seem to find one.. i'll keep searching though. Thanks..
I know this is over a month old but I was wondering if anything has changed on the status of your Nexus. I have been having similar problems, only charges to a max of 63% though then dies in under 5 hours. I have tried a couple things you listed like going back to stock ROM, trying other batteries, pulled SIM card and battery out and just left it on a desk for 5 hours.
Did you end up having to send it back to Samsung?
I had already faced same problem in my samsung grand prime device
I had the same problem with my Meizu (!?) phone. The solution was to turn the phone off and charge it. It would pretty quickly go over that fixed % and to 100% full.
I started running into some battery issues earlier today. I was on AOKP without any issues and one day the battery just started draining very fast. I went from about 50% to 15% in a matter of an hour. That night I slept with my phone charging and it did to get charged passd 54%. And it's charging very slow too. I thought it might be the ROM so I flashed Slim Bean. But it is not heling at all.
Anyone have anything similar going on?
What can I do?
Try calibrating the battery and go like 2-3 charge to discharge and see what its like afterwards
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Will do. I'll post back
Yea it takes a few rundowns to get into the sweet spot, I thought I was getting horrible battery life till someone suggested that to me now I get about 32-33 hrs on a charge. Which I think is about prefect, I don't game on it I just use everything else all the time. I have ps3, xbox360 & psp for gaming
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Well it's been charging for about 6 hours now and it won't get past 54%
I let it charge all night and when I woke up it was finally at 100%. I left for class and unplugged my phone at 7:40. 20 minutes later it was down to 47%. Then another 2 hours later, it was at 11%. Obviously it is draining far too fast. Will AT&T replace my battery? Or does it look like I'm gonna have to buy a new one?
What I normally do is charge it to 100% then boot into recovery and wipe battery stats. Reboot and don't unplug the phone until it again says that the battery is full. Then run with it and see if it helps.
Go ask them I don't see why they wouldn't replace the battery, it does sound like its shot that kind of drain isn't normal at all
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I had the same issues with not getting to 100%. Seems like leaving it on the charger for another couple hours (overnight) got it there.
So I went to the AT&T service shop yesterday and she took my battery and put it in a different Galaxy S III and it showed the battery was charged 97%. In my phone, it showed 23%. She told me that it had somthing to do with my phone being rooted. She said the software on my phone was being "tricked" into believing that the battery is a lot less full than it actually is. She told me to unroot my phone and flash it back to stock. So I did that yesterday and it is still no better. I don't know what to try.
Wiping battery stats doesn't help battery life... Something i learned a long time ago with my X10
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Here's a screenshot of my battery stats. Does Android System usually take up this much battery?
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Here's a screenshot of my battery stats. Does Android System usually take up this much battery?
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My Android system is almost always under 15%. Seeing it that high is alarming. I assume you've tried full wiping and changing ROMs?
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My Android system is almost always under 15%. Seeing it that high is alarming. I assume you've tried full wiping and changing ROMs?
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Yep. I must've flashed my phone to stock at least 10 times now. Ive tried rooting and Unrooting, clearing my flash counter, I really don't know what else to do.
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Thought I'd try installing CM10 just to see if there would be any difference. Screen Brightness shows up as my highest percentage on the battery usage and Android System is much lower on the list, but the battery is still not charging or discharging correctly.
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Thought I'd try installing CM10 just to see if there would be any difference. Screen Brightness shows up as my highest percentage on the battery usage and Android System is much lower on the list, but the battery is still not charging or discharging correctly.
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I would unroot and take everything back to stock, then go back to the AT&T store you went to before and show another service rep that the phone is messed up and see if they give you another one.
Good luck
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I would unroot and take everything back to stock, then go back to the AT&T store you went to before and show another service rep that the phone is messed up and see if they give you another one.
Good luck
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Looks like this is my next course of action. Thanks for your help and I'll post back with whatever happens.
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I let it charge all night and when I woke up it was finally at 100%. I left for class and unplugged my phone at 7:40. 20 minutes later it was down to 47%. Then another 2 hours later, it was at 11%. Obviously it is draining far too fast. Will AT&T replace my battery? Or does it look like I'm gonna have to buy a new one?
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mrb1946,
Even though your S3 is reporting percentage values as you stated....the PHYSICAL battery did not drain from a real 100% to a real 47% in 20 minutes. It can't actually physically drain that fast. It would be on FIRE! So, either the calibration of the rom/software or the battery itself somehow messed up.
Also, during that time...was the battery/S3 HOT? That physical evidence would account for some of the drain if it's coming from a rogue app or misbehaving rom component. Did you post a battery drain graph? And were you monitoring the cpu activity during these high drain periods? I mean...periodic checks to see if your CPU is stuck on HIGH freq and if you have any wakelocks shown under the battery graph.
If this problem is still occurring, here's a thread explaining a possible drain from android system. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827087&highlight=android+system
Since I bought it, my phone has had a major battery problem. It can't last more than 5 hours on without requiring a recharge. I've tried wiping stats, battery savers, uninstalling apps, even a new ROM. Is it normal?
i think it isn't a problem. because my battery can't last more than 10 minutes
Both of you need fresh new batteries to replace your current ones which are near the end of the life cycle.
Yup....same answer as the above
I got a new battery two weeks ago because I had the same problem, It started dieing.....I changed it when I noticed it only stays for an hour!
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Yes. I had the battery died before. Difficult to charge and turn off randomly. And the battery actually become "bloated" waiting to explode.
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Yes. I had the battery died before. Difficult to charge and turn off randomly. And the battery actually become "bloated" waiting to explode.
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Extremely suggest you to change your battery ASAP then. There is no good keeping that battery anymore. Harmful
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Hi all,
My SGS3 suddenly since last night has not been able to recharge, battery critically low. I have tried a few chargers, and rebooted several times.
Can a battery go bad this fast, because looks like it was charging and running fine the day before.
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Heeter
Heeter said:
Hi all,
My SGS3 suddenly since last night has not been able to recharge, battery critically low. I have tried a few chargers, and rebooted several times.
Can a battery go bad this fast, because looks like it was charging and running fine the day before.
Thanks
Heeter
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Have you tried loading a stock ROM on there just to be sure it's not software causing harm to your battery? Not sure if your provider will warranty your battery if it is indeed your battery.
Good luck!
Hi, thanks for your response
It actually is stock rom, sorry forgot to mention it. It is rooted, but I never replaced the rom, just put in CWM recovery. I just moved from rogers to virgin mobile last night, just changed sim card. But the multiple reboots killed a maybe already weak battery?
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Heeter
You should download and install better battery stats, it may help you find out if its being kept awake and draining quickly that way
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Thanks for your response, necrowakker.
I guess that I forgot to mention as well that the phone was shut off during a recharge, and upon powering up, it still it complaining to plug it into a wall charger.
Like it was never plugged in.
Heeter
When you rooted your phone was the kernel changed? .. I've had experience with some custom kernels not reading the battery correctly when off, and only after switching it on it still States its low til a little while later it actually looks like its charging .. ( like the battery level goes up over time) while being off the charger.
If thats not the case, try charging your phone again, but while its on after you know its definitely discharged and not just a ROM memory issue. If you turn it off to keep from getting calls during the night switch on airplane mode to keep that from happening. And check if your battery does on fact charge correctly. ...
After 3 full charges and discharges your battery still gives you bother. Then you can either look into what process it was when you rooted,
if it did change anything more than just giving you more access, or see about a hardware replacement, if it is under warranty, and you can take the flash counter back down to zero (if it counted up) and unroot it.
Also using unsupported chargers over the recommended charge rate for your phone, could have done it damage but that's a long shot with today's safety measures on phones.
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Don't forget to install better battery stats too, just for checking and reporting. Stable ROMs should be able to handle over 300 hours up time before needing a reboot. So using airplane mode should not bother your phone too much
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Thanks for all that info.
The phone has been rooted for at least 6 months now. It has been running very good until this morning. No kernel was changed for the rooting. I just wanted titanium backup to work.
I am still presuming that maybe the battery was weak, and when I was changing out the sim card of the service providers, I did reboot about 15 - 20 times to try to get all the services running, maybe that was enough to kill a battery.
Heeter
I've don't some silly **** with powering and charging and pulling batteries for every reason, I can't see Samsung giving you a bad battery if its worked fine for 6 months, you'd probably know within the first 6 weeks if it was faulty. ...
It may easily be a software memory issue with the battery that's confused it. If you are using cwm as a recovery it may have the erase battery stats option on it, if so give it go,
charge your battery to 100, allow it to drop to zero, or til it shuts down, plug in, power it on allow to boot, and leave to charge to 100,
once that full discharge and recharge is done, your battery has its full stats. If it gives you hassle after this point, think about buying a registered Samsung replacement for your phone.
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Great, thanks will try that.
Heeter