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?
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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.
So I just got this battery hm around Wednesday or Thursday, and I have let it die down to around 10% or less and recharged it overnight several times and I still only see a slight difference in battery life. I am (I would say) a moderate user and I know some people say they get around 2 days on heavy use so I wonder what I'm doing wrong..? I ran the SU command to delete the battery.bin file to wipe the stats while it was fully charged, then let it run the whole day again only getting around 12 hrs (probably would have been shorter, but I have juicedefender running, and I was at work for 5 1/2 hrs of those 12) and then I stuck it on the charger at about 7:45 and then around 12 it was fully charged and I of course turned it off, then back on and it said it was around 80% so I let it charged to full, reset it again then when I turned it back on it said it was full. I took it off the charger and within minutes it dropped 1% every minute or 2 and now around 15 minutes later it's at 86% and I'm not even doing anything, just sitting here with the screen on and Skype is running. I've only drained it/fully charged it a few times maybe 3 or 4 should I just keep doing that or did I just get a crappy battery? It's better life than the stock, so I can't help but think that it's not crappy just not fully calibrated or "worn in" yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I too have a cheapo extended battery from eBay, for the first week I hated it, but finally I actually just let the thing completely die to wear the phone shut down and wouldn't turn back on, then I recharged the battery completely in a standalone charger(also ebay), then put it back in the phone and used normally, charging and discharging and now I can't even dream of going back to the OEM battery, my battery life has much more than doubled. I use my phone like most here with CM7 up to date on nightlys and I'm happy as can be. I also like the ext back on the cheapos much better than the seidio flavor.
So you use the wall charger from eBay to charge it? I don't want to take my battery out to charge it though every night, let alone turn it off because I use it as an alarm clock :X. I've read a whole bunch of different ways of how to charge it in your phone and most people even one of the legitimate companies (Seido) who sells it, says that if you let it go an hr or 2 after the light turns green its good to go, but I don't believe it charges after the light turns green hence why the charging icon on the battery goes away. people may "think" it does but I honestly don't think it does and if anybody can prove otherwise I might have to buy the external charger :/
Yes get an external charger, Preferably 2 batteries and 1 external charger.
I just ordered a wall charger for like $15 I hope this works. I'll just charge my extended battery at night and use my other battery when the extended is charging
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I used the external charger just once to "calibrate" the battery it seemed? Since then I've not taken the battery from the phone and just charged it with the phone charger(plugging it in) and I have noticed a huge change in run time.
How do you charge it though now that its calibrated? Do you just leave it on the charger for a few hrs after it hits green or do you have to turn the phone off and back on then stick it on the charger
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Well my cheap battery has not blown up with sbc kernels
Yeah, its been about a week and my battery still can't even hold a charge, even if it isn't fully charging. It dies quicker than my stock battery. I told the guy I bought it from, and he said he'd send me a new one so I'm back to the stock battery for now until I get this one next week :/
Hey guys, i know it's a tiny bit off topic, but what about a battery pack??
http://www.amazon.com/XtremeMac-IPU-ICP-11-InCharge-Portable-US/dp/B003FVRYBE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1294354173&sr=8-1
i have two of those things and they work perfectly. plus, i don't have to kill the phone, open her up and swap batteries. additionally, it'll charge two devices at a time. bonus!
Hmm see that's what I'm trying to get rid of lol having to plug it in all the time. Plus I actually like the bigger back, I personally don't like the thin size of the evo I feel like I could drop it at any time.
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How are you guys getting so many hours? I only get like 8 Hours on my heavy use and i bought a 3500mah extended battery wtf? I'm also using the net Netarchy sbc 3.2 more havs and mym rom with setcpu running profiles. What am I doing wrong? I even have juice defender running aswell.
I had my 3500 extended battery and at first it wasnt too good. But after switching to an external charger for all charges and completely letting the battery die out im getting a whole days worth of heavy use with no worries.
No rooting or any battery controls.
SilverStone641 said:
Hey guys, i know it's a tiny bit off topic, but what about a battery pack??
http://www.amazon.com/XtremeMac-IPU...1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1294354173&sr=8-1
i have two of those things and they work perfectly. plus, i don't have to kill the phone, open her up and swap batteries. additionally, it'll charge two devices at a time. bonus!
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I think if I got one it would be the 4400mah gum charger
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My G2 gets ghastly battery life. I've tried Juice Defender and I've recalibrated more times than I can remember. Most notifications are turned off and I'm conservative about powering off the various radios when I'm not using them. It wasn't always like that. I felt like I was getting most of a full day on one charge and loving it for many months, but something happened last summer I think. Maybe dust or moisture affected the phone. I've got a total of six batteries and three external battery chargers. No battery whether it's the OEM original, 1500mah spares that were amazing before, or the new 1800mah evo shift 4g batteries I tried out, will last more than about four hours from full charge to the 15% warning sound.
I've tried only charging in the phone. I've tried rotating batteries charged in the external chargers. Like I said, I've tried calibration scenarios of various kinds.
Last night, I took a fully charged 1800mah battery and put it in my phone and then charged the battery in the phone. The orange led never turns green when the phone is off. When the phone is on, I can just barely get the led to turn green at about 91% (starting from what should be a full charge that is reported as 80% by the phone). This takes a good 10 hours of charging. As soon as I woke the phone this morning, the battery meter started dropping while the phone was still plugged in. After unplugging, the meter drops to 80% in a matter of a few minutes.
Like I said, I tried juice defender. It only helps a little but the cost is waiting for the data radio to reconnect every time I wake the phone. I thought BT was the culprit for a while, but now it really doesn't matter if I leave it on or turn it off.
At the other end of the charge, the phone can run for several hours when the battery is supposedly between 1 and 3%. I know we are told to start charging again at 15% but my phone drops to that level in 3-4 hours of regular use. I haven't seen the phone report 100% charge on any battery in six months time, but it runs and runs at 1%. This is what bugs me. Is the phone just mis-reading how many milivolts are coming out of the battery? Why can't I complete the first step of calibration (charge overnight to the 100% mark)? Is there a hardware component that can be causing this or should it be entirely fixable in software?
Thanks for any ideas or tips
Did you wipe battery stats?
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Did you wipe battery stats?
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Yes I have many times but thanks for the suggestion.
Figured so.. Too bad, would have been too easy. I'm starting to see some batttery drain on my desire z now too. Im wondering if mine is a radio issue.
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waxinpoetic said:
Figured so.. Too bad, would have been too easy. I'm starting to see some batttery drain on my desire z now too. Im wondering if mine is a radio issue.
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I changed radios and did RIL matching last fall based on other's comments about better battery life, 4G and GPS. While I've had faster GPS locks and maybe better 4G performance, my battery life did not improve. It may have even gotten worse.
Today I'm trying out some different CPU governor settings. The CM 7.2 RC1 default is 'interactive' and I wouldn't normally touch those settings. I think the powersave governor helped a lot, but the phone became almost unresponsive. Trying 'conservative' now. I should have read This long ago, but just got around to it today. I might invest in the SetCPU app as well.
OK, I can count on a good six hours of normal use if setCPU is holding down the max cpu frequency at night or when the screen is off. I'm still tweaking. Today, the phone crashed while playing music over A2DP and tracking a run with runkeeper. I think it needs to tick faster than 368Mhz when the screen is off.
Are you seeing improvement? I changed radios and like you havent seen much improvement. But I am a little better off than you are. My battery drain is terrible (1-3%per minute) only when connected to the internet (4g or wifi) or using navigation. If the screen is off, or if Im using non-internet apps I seem to get regular battery use. Good luck with your cpu settings.. I have ordered a new battery, but I doubt it will solve my issue. I may try tweaking my settings too soon, but Id better research more.
Just wondering do you have SuperCharger V6 installed? On my Desire Z I had some serious battery problems just as you mentioned. After I would flash my ROM (wiping the caches + reinstalling) my battery life would return to normal. But whenever I would flash SuperCharger v6 my battery life would spiral out of control. My suggestion for a ROM that handles battery life fairly well is Andromadus Audacity B2, just make sure you download and flash GAPPs (google apps). For example running that rom I have been getting very good battery life, approx. 16-20 hours of battery life with moderate use) with default CPU settings and data always turned on. I'm sure if you use Juice Defender to control your data you'll get above average battery life.
Note: Andromadus is an ICS (android 4.0) ROM
Qwerty_Uieo said:
Just wondering do you have SuperCharger V6 installed? On my Desire Z I had some serious battery problems just as you mentioned. After I would flash my ROM (wiping the caches + reinstalling) my battery life would return to normal. But whenever I would flash SuperCharger v6 my battery life would spiral out of control. My suggestion for a ROM that handles battery life fairly well is Andromadus Audacity B2, just make sure you download and flash GAPPs (google apps). For example running that rom I have been getting very good battery life, approx. 16-20 hours of battery life with moderate use) with default CPU settings and data always turned on. I'm sure if you use Juice Defender to control your data you'll get above average battery life.
Note: Andromadus is an ICS (android 4.0) ROM
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Thanks (and thanked) Ive been waiting till ICS roms are bug free and having working cameras, but I think I may just jump on it now. My battery issues are untenable at the moment on a CM7 based rom. Thanks for the advice.
I was seeing some improvement due to SetCPU profiles. However, now if I have GPS and Bluetooth on so that I can listen to music and track my run in runkeeper, the phone seems to 'crash' after about 35 minutes or so. The battery meter shows that the battery takes a nose dive and I think the phone shuts down at 1%. If I restart the phone, it might say I have 30 or 40% charge left but then it drops rapidly again. It seems like it hates the warmth of my pocket. If I let the phone out in the cool air like on my desk, I can reboot at get back to 60 or 70% even though it was just saying 3%. I'm not running SuperCharger.
I'm trying to find cheap G2s for parts on ebay now. Maybe I can at least test out my six batteries in a different phone to see if any of them are shot. They all seem to have the same problems in my phone.
This will be my final update. I bought a used G2 off ebay. The same batteries I used before now show as fully charged when I expect them to be fully charged. I will be getting a feel for general battery life over the next few days, but I expect battery life to be roughly the same. I just won't have to guess at what the current battery level really is.
I'm seeing now that the new phone will show a 60% charge when the old phone shows 15% for the same battery at about the same time.
The new phone shows 100% when topped off but if I put the topped off battery in my old phone, I see 75-80% charge.
I may try sending the old phone to HTC depending on what they offer for repair services.
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I bought a used G2 off ebay. ... the new phone will show a 60% charge when the old phone shows 15% for the same battery at about the same time
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I think what's happened to your old phone (and mine!) is that the onboard voltmeter chip is reading low. I've compared the on-board mV reading to a multimeter-measured battery voltage and what the phone reads as 3.9V the multimeter gets 4.2V (a fully charged Li-Ion battery).
Who knows what's behind it, but it seems like a hardware problem to me.
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.
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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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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 ?
Hi Guys,
My issue is a little bit weird. My AT&T Note 4 has a battery problem relating to charging. This issue is consistent. One day I charge my phone it charges to 100% without any issue. The battery life is good for 2-3 years old battery 2-4 hours on screen time depending on usage. But the very next day when I try to charge my phone the battery percentage won't go beyond 85%-89% and I have to do a battery pull and it immediately shows 99%-100% and I can disconnect my charger.
I am not complaining about or worried about battery life I know it sucks but I want to know a solution so I don't have to battery pull every other day just to reach 100%.
Please excuse my English, it is not my native language.
Not a weird issue, your battery is going bad. Get a quality replacement.
So this is happening to me too.. I just got this phone over the holidays from ebay. Used/mint condition, no OLED burn or anything.. perfect condtion..except for the battery.. won't charge past 82% I've ordered a new one. But still looking to make sure since I've read a lot on the Internet about LL and MM causing battery drain problems...so..
So these battery stats indicative of an old battery?