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Battery 100% to 0% then shuts off

I have been monitoring this for a while now and in several different mods etc. It seems when I leave my phone plugged in fully charged with the screen on it will at a random times just think it has 0% battery even when plugged in it will then shut off. Battery temp is a little high at around 40c. Can't find any running app or process that is throwing up any red flags either. Any ideas? As you can see in the images it just almost instantly drops from 100% to 0% and then shuts down. It doesn't reboot...just shuts off until i power it back on.

a1hildeb said:
I have been monitoring this for a while now and in several different mods etc. It seems when I leave my phone plugged in fully charged with the screen on it will at a random times just think it has 0% battery even when plugged in it will then shut off. Battery temp is a little high at around 40c. Can't find any running app or process that is throwing up any red flags either. Any ideas? As you can see in the images it just almost instantly drops from 100% to 0% and then shuts down. It doesn't reboot...just shuts off until i power it back on.
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Defective battery or battery sensor, probably. Getting a new battery will fix it.
Sent from my Sprint SGS3

yousefak said:
Defective battery or battery sensor, probably. Getting a new battery will fix it.
Sent from my Sprint SGS3
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Damn. Does that mean I have to unroot and all that crap before I turn it in to sprint? I am within my 14 days do they really look at my phone at that point or just hand over a new battery?

a1hildeb said:
Damn. Does that mean I have to unroot and all that crap before I turn it in to sprint? I am within my 14 days do they really look at my phone at that point or just hand over a new battery?
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You don't have to turn your phone in to get a new battery. Just go buy one

HipKat said:
You don't have to turn your phone in to get a new battery. Just go buy one
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arent they like 20-50 bucks? i just bought the damn thing they can give me a replacement.

Unroot take it to sprint

jbadboy2007 said:
Unroot take it to sprint
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will do, thanks

Make a nandroid
Use the nandroid on new phone
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gtuansdiamm said:
Make a nandroid
Use the nandroid on new phone
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already have a backed up rom and backed up settings but will more than likely be rooting and using jelly bean stock rom on new phone. will take it in the am. what is the turn around for something like this? will they be hours, days? just say yea whatever heres a new phone? just trying to judge how much time i need to set aside.

a1hildeb said:
already have a backed up rom and backed up settings but will more than likely be rooting and using jelly bean stock rom on new phone. will take it in the am. what is the turn around for something like this? will they be hours, days? just say yea whatever heres a new phone? just trying to judge how much time i need to set aside.
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Have you tried running stock for a day or two to see if the issue remains?
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yea it did the same thing but not as often. I took it in and they ran some test and said it was defective. I hink they didn do sh! t and didnt want to waste their time because they just gave me a new one without even checkng if I had root. I was in and out in less than 10 minutes. so far so good and now running stock JB Rom. good times.

Htc one x battery dies overnight...battery stats show android os use the most.

Hi,
I have been having a problem of battery.
1. Battery dies from being 100% overnight.
2. Phone randomly shuts itself having more than 40% battery but shows 0 battery when it restarts.
3. Phone restarts quite frequently when taking a picture. (once a week)
Please let me know what should I do to solve the problem. Thanks in advance.
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Could you install BetterBatteryStats from XDA? It's free for XDA members Install it, charge your phone back up, and let this issue happen again. Take a screenshot of Kernel Wakelock and Partial Wakelocks, as well as Process. Would get a much better view of what's eating your battery for breakfast.

Get Better Battery Stats installed.

jph7170 said:
Hi,
I have been having a problem of battery.
1. Battery dies from being 100% overnight.
2. Phone randomly shuts itself having more than 40% battery but shows 0 battery when it restarts.
3. Phone restarts quite frequently when taking a picture. (once a week)
Please let me know what should I do to solve the problem. Thanks in advance.
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I've got the same drain problem as your number 1, but not the other 2 issues. The funny thing is it only started a week or so ago, before that it was fine. I've been running the Viper rom, and Faux kernel without a hitch for over a month up until now.
I used to get a day out of the battery, and 2.5-3 hour screen on which was fine IMO, but not anymore.
I'm wondering if a recent app update has caused the issue, just speculating though, also it seems to be that the drain is happening when I'm not using the phone, when I do use the handset for whatever it uses the battery as normal.
Not trying to hijack your thread, just thought I'd give my two pennies worth as I'm having a similar problem.

DrumJ86 said:
I've got the same drain problem as your number 1, but not the other 2 issues. The funny thing is it only started a week or so ago, before that it was fine. I've been running the Viper rom, and Faux kernel without a hitch for over a month up until now.
I used to get a day out of the battery, and 2.5-3 hour screen on which was fine IMO, but not anymore.
I'm wondering if a recent app update has caused the issue, just speculating though, also it seems to be that the drain is happening when I'm not using the phone, when I do use the handset for whatever it uses the battery as normal.
Not trying to hijack your thread, just thought I'd give my two pennies worth as I'm having a similar problem.
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I think you may be right because I have had the last 2 problems since a while and gave in HTC to repair the phone but it still hasnt been solved and I have got the first problem since the last week itself.

Did you manage to install Better Battery Stats? Leave your screenshots here when it happens again and we'll be able to help you much easier

I had an Arc before, so i thought maybe this will help:
"ALWAYS and I Mean ALWAYS reboot the phone RIGHT AFTER you have disconnected it from the computer or charger to avoid the f*king Android OS issue"
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by jimbo77 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1597771, turn off fastboot when restarting.

You have enough network in your area. I had this issue and change the Network selection to manual which took care of the issue.

ShyamSasi said:
You have enough network in your area. I had this issue and change the Network selection to manual which took care of the issue.
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I have full network in my area so that shouldnt be the problem.
The problem didnt occur last night...i will post the better battery stats results if the problem arises again!

I'd install other ROM/KERNEL...

Hi
jph7170 said:
Hi,
I have been having a problem of battery.
1. Battery dies from being 100% overnight.
2. Phone randomly shuts itself having more than 40% battery but shows 0 battery when it restarts.
3. Phone restarts quite frequently when taking a picture. (once a week)
Please let me know what should I do to solve the problem. Thanks in advance.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app
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You seem to have a lot of applications running and something is keeping your phone awake. Any awake time when the screen isn't on also is an application using your phone.
Go to the play store and check the permissions of your downloaded apps, any app that has the permission to keep your device awake is a candidate for your problem. Uninstall them all and your problem should be gone, re-install one by one and see when it returns.
Regards
Phil

The problem occurred again. I have attached a image of the battery stats.
Thanks in advance.
Phil[/QUOTE]
ArmedandDangerous said:
Could you install BetterBatteryStats from XDA? It's free for XDA members Install it, charge your phone back up, and let this issue happen again. Take a screenshot of Kernel Wakelock and Partial Wakelocks, as well as Process. Would get a much better view of what's eating your battery for breakfast.
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Rusty! said:
Get Better Battery Stats installed.
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ArmedandDangerous said:
Did you manage to install Better Battery Stats? Leave your screenshots here when it happens again and we'll be able to help you much easier
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Need a shot of the 'partial wakelocks' category.
Also, don't stick them altogether into one pic, the board shrinks it massively. Just upload them individually

Rusty! said:
Need a shot of the 'partial wakelocks' category.
Also, don't stick them altogether into one pic, the board shrinks it massively. Just upload them individually
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Here is the individual files

Looks like it's the radio causing the majority of your drain. How is the signal in your location? I see you've switched from EDGE to 3G during the screenshots... if the 3G signal isn't great then it will cause battery drain searching. It might be worth forcing your phone to either 2G or 3G only and seeing what happens.

Rusty! said:
Looks like it's the radio causing the majority of your drain. How is the signal in your location? I see you've switched from EDGE to 3G during the screenshots... if the 3G signal isn't great then it will cause battery drain searching. It might be worth forcing your phone to either 2G or 3G only and seeing what happens.
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Actually I just switched to 3g in the last couple of days. I only had 2G previously and the problem still occurred. Its funny that it happens only at night.

I think its the time for a fresh start. Format your phone and start all over.
So, how much will it takes you? Less than 3 hours? I'd say go for it.
At lest it would give you less headache and hopefully more battery.
Good Luck

I've had this problem before too, with baseband and alarm wakelocks.
Look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23893234&postcount=2
Then I think I just googled the offending process and found a solution there

CELL STANDBY battery drain solution on stock

After being frustrated for a couple of weeks and wanting to return my s3 due to overnight cell standby batty drain of around 40-50% (from full charge with no use overnight, I finally called Samsung tech support and they told me to power down, take out the battery and reinsert, and use the original charger ONLY (i was using a old clamshell phone's charger that I found lying around rather than the one that came with the phone. I freakin can't believe it but it solved the issue for me!!! I only lost about 4 percent overnight. I was soooo pissed before, but now I love my s3 again )
Curious to hear if this works for others who have also been frustrated with this awesome device...

That's been a known problem since the beginning and there was a fix zip floating around, flashed it and my cell standby is only ever 1-2% max 6%
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Well just restarting my phone works to "fix" the massive battery drain issue (presumably because cell standby is using about 60% of my battery) but it will be back in a few days. While I do sometimes use more than one battery charger,I don't think this is related to using something other than the original charger but that is something I can test. Thanks for that tip.
This is one of the 3 big problems I have with this phone (the others being random loss of service presumably due to LTE network deficiencies and the face proximity sensor acting to disable the screen whenever I try to touch the screen with my finger). Since mine is a replacement phone for another S3 with the exact same issues, I'm assuming there is no real fix for these problems (for a stock phone). Yes, I have learned to hate my phone...

thatsupnow said:
That's been a known problem since the beginning and there was a fix zip floating around, flashed it and my cell standby is only ever 1-2% max 6%
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can i get a link please

Yeah happened to me last night had 60 percent to 0 on paranoid android
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I found that letting the battery drain until the phone dies and then charging iy conpletely while off helped my sleep drain significantly. That and un installing apps that have numerous wakelocks such as facebook.
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Noodile said:
can i get a link please
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here flash this

mzaidel said:
After being frustrated for a couple of weeks and wanting to return my s3 due to overnight cell standby batty drain of around 40-50% (from full charge with no use overnight, I finally called Samsung tech support and they told me to power down, take out the battery and reinsert, and use the original charger ONLY (i was using a old clamshell phone's charger that I found lying around rather than the one that came with the phone. I freakin can't believe it but it solved the issue for me!!! I only lost about 4 percent overnight. I was soooo pissed before, but now I love my s3 again )
Curious to hear if this works for others who have also been frustrated with this awesome device...
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The Cell Standby Fix posted above me...which I use as well...does not fix a DRAIN...it fixes a false reporting of the drain. Charger has nothing to do with it. That was a fluke or a misrepresentation.

i turned off the voip services that i had running and now it discharges only about 15-20% over night

Do a search for gsiff_daemon. That is most likely the cause of your problem and while I can't say for sure, I suspect the charger advice worked coincidentally due to the problem being fixed temporarily by powering down and restarting.
Sadly, I don't know of Samsung admitting to this issue and it looks like even the jelly bean update does not fix it.

I get the cell standby misreporting, not adversely affecting life at all. I did flash the fix and the cell standby consumption is now reported much lower, but I seem to be getting a slightly higher battery drain. sitting idle I generally drop around 2% per hour due to syncing and email push. after flashing the fix I'm up to about 5% per hour. I backed up right before this install so I'll probably revert back...
any idea why this would be?

tmagritte said:
Do a search for gsiff_daemon. That is most likely the cause of your problem and while I can't say for sure, I suspect the charger advice worked coincidentally due to the problem being fixed temporarily by powering down and restarting.
Sadly, I don't know of Samsung admitting to this issue and it looks like even the jelly bean update does not fix it.
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do you think that gsiff_daemon can just be deleted?
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tmagritte said:
Do a search for gsiff_daemon. That is most likely the cause of your problem and while I can't say for sure, I suspect the charger advice worked coincidentally due to the problem being fixed temporarily by powering down and restarting.
Sadly, I don't know of Samsung admitting to this issue and it looks like even the jelly bean update does not fix it.
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Russ77 said:
I get the cell standby misreporting, not adversely affecting life at all. I did flash the fix and the cell standby consumption is now reported much lower, but I seem to be getting a slightly higher battery drain. sitting idle I generally drop around 2% per hour due to syncing and email push. after flashing the fix I'm up to about 5% per hour. I backed up right before this install so I'll probably revert back...
any idea why this would be?
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thatsupnow said:
do you think that gsiff_daemon can just be deleted?
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I highly doubt using the Cell Standby reporting fix is causing the 5% drain Russ77. It's a proven fix without reported side effects. I have looked at the code myself. It simply alters a certain math value of 34 to 3.4.....a coding typo! Once again, probably just coincidental timing. But read on....you may have this bug if you run a stock rom...
Here is a full test report on the gsiff_daemon that I performed yesterday with details on how to reproduce it, and how to work around it. Hopefully some smart cookie will look into it and fix the code from the inside!

thatsupnow said:
do you think that gsiff_daemon can just be deleted?
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Check out the thread linked to by themadproducer (I post up) for more details. But basically, yes, if you have root you can rename the file. I just did this a couple of days ago. I haven't noticed any issues. Maybe GPS lock takes a few seconds longer, but it's hard to say if that's true or just a coincidence.
It does seem the gsiff_daemon issue is triggered by a hot reboot, which sometimes happens spontaneously. I haven't had one since I rename the file, but I don't know if renaming that also affects the spontaneous hot reboots, which are annoying in themselves. But at least it won't cause the phone to eat through battery and turn itself into a mini hotplate...

Cell standby is the one which is concerned with network connections.
The solution that would work can be changing the SIM card. Get a new SIM from your operator and throw away the old one.

thatsupnow said:
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How to install this zip file, please help
Thanks

tmagritte said:
Check out the thread linked to by themadproducer (I post up) for more details. But basically, yes, if you have root you can rename the file. I just did this a couple of days ago. I haven't noticed any issues. Maybe GPS lock takes a few seconds longer, but it's hard to say if that's true or just a coincidence.
It does seem the gsiff_daemon issue is triggered by a hot reboot, which sometimes happens spontaneously. I haven't had one since I rename the file, but I don't know if renaming that also affects the spontaneous hot reboots, which are annoying in themselves. But at least it won't cause the phone to eat through battery and turn itself into a mini hotplate...
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Where is this gsiff_daemom file found? I have a rooted s3 and would like to rename it.

flash
how can i flash that zip file in an stock recovery

thatsupnow said:
here flash this
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Can I use this for my Samsung Galaxy ace s5830i too?

haha

[Q] Help if you can, thanks

I've had my I747 at&t now for 6 months, about 2 weeks ago It started shutting down on me on it's own, at that time I was rooted and had a custom rom installed that was working perfect. It was the HighOnAndroid ROM v0.3 from galaxys3root.com. There were no problems at all until 2 weeks ago too. So I used Kies to factory restore and upgrade to1747UCDLK3 to see if it was my rom I I had installed. My phone works now, but I have a problem with the battery I can't figure out.
here's what it does, I charge my battery at the end of the day to 100% and turn it off, then the next morning it's always down to around 70% even though it is off all night. It didn't do this before at all, have you had this issue or can give me some advice? thank you
Edit...FYI I use this phone on Straight Talk and have reformatted my 32 gig sd too just to start clean.

Chocketbear said:
I've had my I747 at&t now for 6 months, about 2 weeks ago It started shutting down on me on it's own, at that time I was rooted and had a custom rom installed that was working perfect. It was the HighOnAndroid ROM v0.3 from galaxys3root.com. There were no problems at all until 2 weeks ago too. So I used Kies to factory restore and upgrade to1747UCDLK3 to see if it was my rom I I had installed. My phone works now, but I have a problem with the battery I can't figure out.
here's what it does, I charge my battery at the end of the day to 100% and turn it off, then the next morning it's always down to around 70% even though it is off all night. It didn't do this before at all, have you had this issue or can give me some advice? thank you
Edit...FYI I use this phone on Straight Talk and have reformatted my 32 gig sd too just to start clean.
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Are you still rooted and on the stock 4.1.1 ?
This has been going on for two weeks ?

hednik said:
Are you still rooted and on the stock 4.1.1 ?
This has been going on for two weeks ?
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No, kies removed the root and I'm on jelly bean"which was samsungs update

Chocketbear said:
No, kies removed the root and I'm on jelly bean"which was samsungs update
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I never used the plain stock with Keis update. I would normally just suggest to just flash it again. Are you opposed to rooting again and installing a customer recovery or do you want to stay completely stock ?

hednik said:
I never used the plain stock with Keis update. I would normally just suggest to just flash it again. Are you opposed to rooting again and installing a customer recovery or do you want to stay completely stock ?
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No, I liked it rooted....just trying to figure out what happened. I just don't understand how the battery can drain that much if the phone is off. I may reroot of I can get past this part, It's seems to run down no matter which rom is on it.

I would reccomend gsam battery monitor and cpuspy. That should help determine the problem. It helped me when I had a similar issue.
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Powered off or sleeping?
If you physically turn the phone off (not just sleep mode), then something is up with the battery.
Try powering to 100% charge, then discharge all the way down to 5%. Then charge to 100% again and see if that helps.
My phone was only ever able to charge to 70% for a few days. A complete discharge was able to fix it for me.

CZ Eddie said:
Powered off or sleeping?
If you physically turn the phone off (not just sleep mode), then something is up with the battery.
Try powering to 100% charge, then discharge all the way down to 5%. Then charge to 100% again and see if that helps.
My phone was only ever able to charge to 70% for a few days. A complete discharge was able to fix it for me.
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It's shutting down, but i cant say I've ever let it get down to 5%, I just top it off. I did charge it to 100% one night , remove the battery and reinstalled it the next morining, It was still 99% by leaving it out of the phone, go figure, I 'll try your tips too

boothcr79 said:
I would reccomend gsam battery monitor and cpuspy. That should help determine the problem. It helped me when I had a similar issue.
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Thanks, I'll check those out too

Galaxy s3 massive battery drain (replaced battery)

Hello,
I know there are countless threads about the battery issues, but im having a hard time trying to find a solution for my problem.
My battery drain insanely fast, even on idle. I can barley get 5-6 hours on my battery. Standard usage, some Internet, texting etc. I have all the pre installed apps disabled, and have most apps I downloaded on manual sync.
A friend of mine had the same issue and replaced the battery and the phone is back to normal. I replaced the battery and still have the same issue.
It takes a long time to charge, sometimes I leave charging while the phone is off, and come back am hour later and it barley charged 3%.
Please I need some help, any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks in advanced.
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How long have you had the phone and when did this start happening? Are you stock? If you're running a custom rom, when did you flash it (or any updates)?

I've had it since early September.
Same rom, using 4.1.1. Never been rooted.
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It sounds to me that software-wise your phone's battery should be working correctly, especially if you've disabled so many apps and never rooted. I think it's a defective battery. If you don't want to spend too much, you can buy 3rd party replacement batteries, but they probably won't have NFC.

I've already replaced the battery. I got the same battery my friend got when her s3 was having the same problem... Now her phone is fine and mines still isn't.
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equinox24 said:
I've already replaced the battery. I got the same battery my friend got when her s3 was having the same problem... Now her phone is fine and mines still isn't.
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Ok. That's not good. Assuming you've tried factory resetting the phone and it still didn't do anything, I say go back to carrier store and get a replacement phone. Something obviously isn't right. Phone hasn't been out a year yet so it'll fall under manufacturer warranty. I had to get mine replaced a month ago for another issue.

equinox24 said:
I've had it since early September.
Same rom, using 4.1.1. Never been rooted.
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.... uhmmm... LOL thats your problem there buddy.