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Hello people, after having used my Touch pro 2's GPS function extensively one day on battery, I have realized that the battery's life has shortened by huge amounts of time. It lasts for less than 24 hours now, so I was wondering if I needed a new battery or is there something I can do to restore it back to the previous state. Thanks!
I don't think using the GPS should ruin your battery, just doesn't make sense! Are you sure you shut off the GPS after using it? Are you running any other programmes in the background? Did you flash a new ROM?
My battery started going down twice as fast after swapping to the new "official" Sense 2.5 ROM.
you can try a couple of things that may extend your battery life. try first turning off the auto speakerphone when the phone is face down. i just did this and i can tell a marked difference in just a couple of days. also search battery life reg edits. theres a ton out there here and on ppcgeeks that will definetly help. in general i noticed that when I use GPS the battery drain is pretty high. hope that helps
Dimitri Stephan said:
Hello people, after having used my Touch pro 2's GPS function extensively one day on battery, I have realized that the battery's life has shortened by huge amounts of time. It lasts for less than 24 hours now, so I was wondering if I needed a new battery or is there something I can do to restore it back to the previous state. Thanks!
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Using the GPS all day will def drain your battery much faster, especially if you're using aGPS and/or an app that also downloads data to compliment the location info (like google maps). The GPS radio isn't 2-way like the phone or 3G or wifi, but it's still a radio and will give a noticible hit on your batt life when used even moderately, let alone all day.
If you're going to be using GPS a lot, you might want to try different radio roms to see if any of them make a difference in the batt life for you, but I don't know that will make as much of a difference as it does for the phone reception, etc. I would also suggest evaluating various GPS apps, with an eye on relative battery drain
Well guys, thanks for the answers, but that still doesn't solve my problem because I don't use the GPS function often at all, but the battery still drains quickly. Also, there are no programs running in the background. There is however a data connection that is always on and the mail checks for mail every hour. But the thing is I don't want to change any settings to enhance battery life, If it worked fine with the same settings before, why wont it do the same now? Do I need a new battery? Thanks!
Dimitri Stephan said:
Well guys, thanks for the answers, but that still doesn't solve my problem because I don't use the GPS function often at all, but the battery still drains quickly. Also, there are no programs running in the background. There is however a data connection that is always on and the mail checks for mail every hour. But the thing is I don't want to change any settings to enhance battery life, If it worked fine with the same settings before, why wont it do the same now? Do I need a new battery? Thanks!
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Ahhh sorry, I misunderstood, I thought you were just saying it drains faster while you use the GPS like that, not since you used it...I get it now.
That one day of heavy use shouldn't have killed your battery, take a look at THIS thread, others with the same issue/question have posted different things that have worked for them...you might want to give the steps in post #31 a try before thinking about buying a new batt.
Dimitri Stephan said:
Well guys, thanks for the answers, but that still doesn't solve my problem because I don't use the GPS function often at all, but the battery still drains quickly. Also, there are no programs running in the background. There is however a data connection that is always on and the mail checks for mail every hour. But the thing is I don't want to change any settings to enhance battery life, If it worked fine with the same settings before, why wont it do the same now? Do I need a new battery? Thanks!
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You can install " battclock " and you can continuously see what the battery drain actually is during different functions.
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You can install " battclock " and you can continuously see what the battery drain actually is during different functions.
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Yes, great recommendation! (why didn't I think of that? lol)
And with battclock you can now see your CPU usage in real-time, which is probably one of the best coincidental indicators of battery drain (much more so than memory load, in my opinion)
Hi Dimitri,
I experienced the same problem where my battery life suddenly "shifted" from 48 hours to 12 hours on regular use..
I thought the problem was the battery and I replaced it, this did not help at all..
The only cause of this problem that I can think was loading the official HTC UK 6.5 ROM (1.86.401.0)..
hilt49 said:
Hi Dimitri,
I experienced the same problem where my battery life suddenly "shifted" from 48 hours to 12 hours on regular use..
I thought the problem was the battery and I replaced it, this did not help at all..
The only cause of this problem that I can think was loading the official HTC UK 6.5 ROM (1.86.401.0)..
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This is exactly what I am experiencing. (This together with not being able to connect the device to PC)
Installed several 6.5 ROMs and suddenly the battery lasts only half a night.
My question is: When the battery is full, when you turn the device off (completely off, not in standby mode!) does the battery drain then?
As far as I see, the battery has only 50% left after a night rest while it is off. So, the only way to keep the battery full is to remove it from the device.
What are your experiences with this?
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This is exactly what I am experiencing. (This together with not being able to connect the device to PC)
Installed several 6.5 ROMs and suddenly the battery lasts only half a night.
My question is: When the battery is full, when you turn the device off (completely off, not in standby mode!) does the battery drain then?
As far as I see, the battery has only 50% left after a night rest while it is off. So, the only way to keep the battery full is to remove it from the device.
What are your experiences with this?
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If you are truely turning it completely off, the battery should NOT drain at all. Have you tried a new battery? I bought a pair of batteries and an external charger on flEabay for like $12. The batteries are good as originals as far as I can tell.
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If you are truely turning it completely off, the battery should NOT drain at all. Have you tried a new battery? I bought a pair of batteries and an external charger on flEabay for like $12. The batteries are good as originals as far as I can tell.
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Yes, I have two batteries, even an external charger.
Even when a battery is charged with the external charger, then put in the phone it drains the battery
hey guys can anyone link any of the forum topics to tweak battery life? the only things I have done is the general setting on the phone and the power management options with advance config are there more options and tweaks available?
thanks for all help!
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If you are truely turning it completely off, the battery should NOT drain at all. Have you tried a new battery? I bought a pair of batteries and an external charger on flEabay for like $12. The batteries are good as originals as far as I can tell.
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I will test this (again) tomorrow night.
Bright.Light said:
This is exactly what I am experiencing. (This together with not being able to connect the device to PC)
Installed several 6.5 ROMs and suddenly the battery lasts only half a night.
My question is: When the battery is full, when you turn the device off (completely off, not in standby mode!) does the battery drain then?
As far as I see, the battery has only 50% left after a night rest while it is off. So, the only way to keep the battery full is to remove it from the device.
What are your experiences with this?
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Bright light...I'm also having BOTH of those problems...stock ATT rom. Within the past week my battery life has dropped exponentially, and when I went to sync last night, had not done so in a week or so, I get nothing...none of my PC's will recognize the phone as even being plugged in, let alone sync. I'm thinking maybe an ATT botched update?
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Bright light...I'm also having BOTH of those problems...stock ATT rom. Within the past week my battery life has dropped exponentially, and when I went to sync last night, had not done so in a week or so, I get nothing...none of my PC's will recognize the phone as even being plugged in, let alone sync. I'm thinking maybe an ATT botched update?
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So it seems I'm not alone.
Mine is a universal one, no brand whatsoever. I will try to reflash the original (6.1) stock ROM, including radio.
Have you flashed yours already?
@Bright.light @VirtualHomer:
I have the crap battery + no activesync issue.
I'm on the Josh's Black 1.7 ROM. I tried hard reseting, reflashing, going back to the stock ROM, but no improvement.
I have heard that removing the battery overnight is a possible fix for the USB issue (maybe for both?), but I haven't tried yet, will try tonight.
If anyone out there has any potential soultions here... would be great. Right now, I only get 1/2 a day (~6 hours) out of the battery & no hotsync at all (other than BT).
One thing I am pretty sure of: The bad battery life and the activesync issue came up around the same time. Wierd.
Cheers
Fingaluna said:
@Bright.light @VirtualHomer:
I have the crap battery + no activesync issue.
I'm on the Josh's Black 1.7 ROM. I tried hard reseting, reflashing, going back to the stock ROM, but no improvement.
I have heard that removing the battery overnight is a possible fix for the USB issue (maybe for both?), but I haven't tried yet, will try tonight.
If anyone out there has any potential soultions here... would be great. Right now, I only get 1/2 a day (~6 hours) out of the battery & no hotsync at all (other than BT).
One thing I am pretty sure of: The bad battery life and the activesync issue came up around the same time. Wierd.
Cheers
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You are right in assuming that battery life and connectivity issues came at the same time.
I was assuming this was because of a (bad?) flash, or maybe a bad ROM which changed something in a position that should not be changed and which is not restored by flashing another ROM.
A night without battery won't help, I think, because my device has been numerous times without any power and without any battery. However, I will try it again.
Could this be a faulty device? Or a design error?
@Bright.Light
I confirm that a night without the battery solved nothing. I have had my phone on for 5 hours now, taken 5 calls, none of them too long, checked email every 10 minutes (automagically) and I am down to 27% battery.
Also, I confirm that a replacement battery solves nothing, as I have also tried this.
I am planning on returning my device to an ATT store next week for a replacement... We'll see how it goes.
Cheers,
Matt
I'm in the same boat with mine. About two weeks ago the battery just started draining fast. Fast enough that it wouldn't make it to 4-5 hours without being charged. You could watch the battery meter drain. And what was weird was that there was no ROM change or anything that started this. Came out of the blue. Calling Spring tomorrow and getting a replacement is the best solution I can think of.
So, my battery is wack... and I think it's only been acting like this since I went to a KK ROM? Maybe? Feels like it...
I've had this tablet since it was released last fall, and this behavior is very recent.
Anyways, it dies FAST. Like nose dives in a matter of 5-15 minutes. What's even weirder, is that sometimes, if I power cycle the device, it'll jump up by 30-60%. But then just dies again in another 5-15 minutes.
And there's a screenshot after I just power-cycled.
It jumped from 11% to 71%!!
Crazy!
I've also tried letting it get to 5% then charging it to 100%, done that twice. No luck. I don't know if this is related, but if I power it completely off, and plug it in, it turns on... kinda weird. My Note 3 doesn't do that, it just stays off and shows the battery charge indicator.
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So, my battery is wack... and I think it's only been acting like this since I went to a KK ROM? Maybe? Feels like it...
I've had this tablet since it was released last fall, and this behavior is very recent.
Anyways, it dies FAST. Like nose dives in a matter of 5-15 minutes. What's even weirder, is that sometimes, if I power cycle the device, it'll jump up by 30-60%. But then just dies again in another 5-15 minutes.
And there's a screenshot after I just power-cycled.
It jumped from 11% to 71%!!
Crazy!
I've also tried letting it get to 5% then charging it to 100%, done that twice. No luck. I don't know if this is related, but if I power it completely off, and plug it in, it turns on... kinda weird. My Note 3 doesn't do that, it just stays off and shows the battery charge indicator.
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Hi, I have similar problem and I am with 4.3 android. I have battery loss when I play games. It drops to 2-3% really fast and after reboot it goes up to 35-40%. Once I fully depleted my battery and charge it. This time there were no battery lost. After the second charging problem persists.
If you manage to fixed it please tell us how.
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Hi, I have similar problem and I am with 4.3 android. I have battery loss when I play games. It drops to 2-3% really fast and after reboot it goes up to 35-40%. Once I fully depleted my battery and charge it. This time there were no battery lost. After the second charging problem persists.
If you manage to fixed it please tell us how.
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No fix yet... still looking for a solution
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No fix yet... still looking for a solution
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In other thread one guy says that he has the same problem and he just go to the store and they change his battery.
Rupar4o said:
In other thread one guy says that he has the same problem and he just go to the store and they change his battery.
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Well, I doubt that I can do that since I have a Custom ROM on my tablet
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same here
I have a similar problem with my p600. the tablet is new, got it since a month or less.
at first i was amazed of the battery life i use it a lot for work writing documents and sheets on excel, battery used to perfom quite well giving me more than 5 hours of screen on, but recently the battery starts to drop very fast, now i can barely get around 2 hours of screen on.
i've already done 2 cycles of full discharge and then charge it completely with the tablet turned off. but the problem stills.
also sometimes when i reboot the tablet the battery goes from i.e 20% to 40% after the reboot.
im still looking for a fix or solution, today i found a new official firmware for my model (4.4 firmware for telcel mexico). going to wait until the tablet is fully charged and then flash the new firmware. I dont know if its going to help but i got nothing to lose.
by the way, sending it to semsung is not an option because of knox 0x1
vashminted said:
I have a similar problem with my p600. the tablet is new, got it since a month or less.
at first i was amazed of the battery life i use it a lot for work writing documents and sheets on excel, battery used to perfom quite well giving me more than 5 hours of screen on, but recently the battery starts to drop very fast, now i can barely get around 2 hours of screen on.
i've already done 2 cycles of full discharge and then charge it completely with the tablet turned off. but the problem stills.
also sometimes when i reboot the tablet the battery goes from i.e 20% to 40% after the reboot.
im still looking for a fix or solution, today i found a new official firmware for my model (4.4 firmware for telcel mexico). going to wait until the tablet is fully charged and then flash the new firmware. I dont know if its going to help but i got nothing to lose.
by the way, sending it to semsung is not an option because of knox 0x1
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sorry to revive an old thread. I have this exact issue! it's driving me bonkers! Any fixes?
brett_day said:
sorry to revive an old thread. I have this exact issue! it's driving me bonkers! Any fixes?
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try this, bring life back to battery. If you use the trial version, keep exit and redo it until all cells are done.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BoshBashStudios.batterydoctorrepair
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try this, bring life back to battery. If you use the trial version, keep exit and redo it until all cells are done.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BoshBashStudios.batterydoctorrepair
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perfect thanks. I will def give this a try.
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perfect thanks. I will def give this a try.
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Well unfortunately this has not worked....battery is still tanking. last night i played plague for 30 minutes....in 30 mins battery went from 90% to 25%. I think i will try reflashing KitKat....maybe my original update was screwy. If that does not fix it then I guess I will have to call Sammy.
Man i ha e exactly the same problem. I calibrated it some months ago and it seemed to work fine. Now the problem is back.... Dont know what to do... I have tried several apps, though i read google doesn't recomend to use any app to fix the battery... we really need help here
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vashminted said:
I have a similar problem with my p600. the tablet is new, got it since a month or less.
at first i was amazed of the battery life i use it a lot for work writing documents and sheets on excel, battery used to perfom quite well giving me more than 5 hours of screen on, but recently the battery starts to drop very fast, now i can barely get around 2 hours of screen on.
i've already done 2 cycles of full discharge and then charge it completely with the tablet turned off. but the problem stills.
also sometimes when i reboot the tablet the battery goes from i.e 20% to 40% after the reboot.
im still looking for a fix or solution, today i found a new official firmware for my model (4.4 firmware for telcel mexico). going to wait until the tablet is fully charged and then flash the new firmware. I dont know if its going to help but i got nothing to lose.
by the way, sending it to semsung is not an option because of knox 0x1
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Bumping up I have the same exact problem... any fixes?
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Sorry to bump this, has anyone found a solution yet.
I've replaced the battery 3 times in about 9 months, but had this issue about a yr, was sent back to Samsung who changed the battery and supposedly updated the fw 4.4.2, I have since replaced the battery another 3 times every 3 months, each time either factory resetting or flashing a new rom, currently on official Smp600 5.1.1 BTU rom, today my battery was on 47%, I plugged in charger and was watching/streaming a movie on it, about 80 minutes later the tablet shut off, which was odd it's never powered off while on charge, powered it back on and battery said 19%, my previous issues has been the same as others, it can be on 100%, play a game, or stream a movie,or watch youtube etc and it will nosedive dramatically 20/30% at a time, sometimes within 10 mins it's gone from 100% to less than 30%, it's clear there's some sort of issue if others have it, I was wondering if a thread should be made to list ppl with this issue to see how many there are and go from there.
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Sorry to bump this, has anyone found a solution yet.
I've replaced the battery 3 times in about 9 months, but had this issue about a yr, was sent back to Samsung who changed the battery and supposedly updated the fw 4.4.2, I have since replaced the battery another 3 times every 3 months, each time either factory resetting or flashing a new rom, currently on official Smp600 5.1.1 BTU rom, today my battery was on 47%, I plugged in charger and was watching/streaming a movie on it, about 80 minutes later the tablet shut off, which was odd it's never powered off while on charge, powered it back on and battery said 19%, my previous issues has been the same as others, it can be on 100%, play a game, or stream a movie,or watch youtube etc and it will nosedive dramatically 20/30% at a time, sometimes within 10 mins it's gone from 100% to less than 30%, it's clear there's some sort of issue if others have it, I was wondering if a thread should be made to list ppl with this issue to see how many there are and go from there.
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I've been having the same issue for some time now. Calibrating the battery does help, I don't experience the problem nearly as much after calibrating it. But it'll still nosedive on occasion, maybe once a week. This is the app I use to calibrate it https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration
I have the SM-T700 and am running latest CM nightly for it. I have noticed in last month or so that the battery absolutely plummets if i play a game. Doesnt seem to matter what game it is but it will drop quick. For example, just went from 70% to about 10% in less than 30 minutes of playing. I can watch videos, browse internet, etc for hours and hours and battery slowly creeps down like normal with no big drops. In the battery stats when it makes the drops it will show the huge drop in the graph but based on the percentages for the different apps it wont show any that are huge battery users (for example: when it just dropped 60% in less than 30 minutes the game i was playing on showed 6% in the battery stats page). Ive seen a few other threads where folks seem to think this is a battery issue but since its only one type of app doing this it has to be a software issue in my opinion. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Does your tablet turn off before the battery level reaches 0%, or big jumps in battery power left, like showing 10% left while gaming, but after gaming it jumps up to say 40%, if so you need to calibrate the battery.
https://www.androidpit.com/how-to-calibrate-the-battery-on-your-android-device
If you have done a lot of heavy gaming on your tablet, it can cause the battery to fail a lot sooner than it normally would, but you say your battery seems fine when you watch video or browse the internet.
The T700 is reported to have an problem with the battery connector becoming loose, which give flickering screen and unexpected shutdowns
John.
Thanks. I will try the calibration on it and see if that helps. I dont game on it much and i dont think its battery failure since it will last nice long time when doing anything else. I havent tried to see if it actually shuts off when it gets to zero so maybe i will try that tonight before the calibration just to see if it does that.
The faster you drain power from a battery the less battery power you get out, example an 1000mah battery if you drain 200ma out of the battery you will get approx 1000mah out of it, but if you drain 500ma from the same battery you might only get 800ma out of it, as the battery chokes with high current drain, but you should not get as massive drains that you get, it`s complicated.
John
DaveWW00 said:
Thanks. I will try the calibration on it and see if that helps. I dont game on it much and i dont think its battery failure since it will last nice long time when doing anything else. I havent tried to see if it actually shuts off when it gets to zero so maybe i will try that tonight before the calibration just to see if it does that.
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i've tried all kinds of things and still have this issue. very very annoying. can watch videos practically all day on it but the second i run a game the battery drops insanely quick (i watched it once go from 75% to 14% in less than 5 minutes). whats annoying is the battery isnt actually that low. if i let it shutdown when it gets to 0% or restart it myself it will boot back up and say 30,40,50,60+%. The battery is lasting as long as it should doing this stuff but the stupid OS doesnt realize it. Tried recalibrating the battery- didnt help at all. Have updated to latest CM nightlies- didnt help at all. Scoured through the settings to see if there is something that could be doing this- nothing. I was hoping i could download an old CM nightly since i think its a problem in there but cant get one from their website older that a few days ago. I think late June or so it wasnt doing this so it would be nice if i could get one from back then to try. anybody know where i can find those still? (CM website has download links but they all give 404 errors) or does anybody have other suggestions to try and fix this (I am open to other ROMs at this point). Thanks!
You are running on cm try slimlp or blisspop if you're on blisspop under clock CPU to 1.5ghz and done heat problem and little battery problem fix I was on cm played games every games drops 1% every half minute or 1 min
Switched to blisspop and lowered CPU Max to 1.5...... Like blisspop but still same issue. Any other ideas?
I suggest you need an new battery, you can get them on ebay quite cheap like £9 and the spluger tool is £1 and do the replacement yourself, or buy an quality battery and toolkit for $60, see link below, or take you tablet to an phone/tablet repair shop and let them do the replacement for you.
http://www.newpower99.com/Samsung_G...tery_Kit_p/samsung-galaxy-tab-s-8.4smt700.htm
John.
DaveWW00 said:
Switched to blisspop and lowered CPU Max to 1.5...... Like blisspop but still same issue. Any other ideas?
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Exactly what issues you have
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Exactly what issues you have
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Can browse web, watch movies, use most apps but as soon as i play a game the battery level plummets.
Tinderbox (UK) said:
I suggest you need an new battery, you can get them on ebay quite cheap like £9 and the spluger tool is £1 and do the replacement yourself, or buy an quality battery and toolkit for $60, see link below, or take you tablet to an phone/tablet repair shop and let them do the replacement for you.
http://www.newpower99.com/Samsung_G...tery_Kit_p/samsung-galaxy-tab-s-8.4smt700.htm
John.
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ill give that a try maybe. annoying since this isnt too old of a tablet and i really dont use it that much. the battery life is there for everything else, just not games for some reason.
Gaming and other high drain applications can really damage a battery quite quick, Tablets and Phones are not really mean for gaming as the battery`s cannot handle the fast drain.
If it`s still in warranty get it fixed or replaced.
John.
DaveWW00 said:
ill give that a try maybe. annoying since this isnt too old of a tablet and i really dont use it that much. the battery life is there for everything else, just not games for some reason.
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Try touchwiz or go back to stock Sammy ROM then play the same game still same issue then your battery is busted I had the same issue on CM with gaming go back touch wiz everything is fine no back on slim lp everything fine till now and which game do you play?
Guys, i need your advice.
I got a G3 ( d855p latinoamerica version) as a payment for a debt.
As far as i have readed this device in particular has a lot of heating issues, dead screens and damaged SOC´s.
My device has its battery damaged, i can only use it for about 3 hours. but it doesnt have any other noticeable issue (the screen its ok and i havent gotten any reboot, yet it heats a lot)
Is it worth the time (and money) buying another OEM battery, getting a 3rd party 6000 mah battery, or let it die?
Thanks in Advance for your answers.
Maybe battery just need a calibration: Battery Calibration - root or just flushing a stock rom to reset some software drain.
AlanRozenKreuz said:
Guys, i need your advice.
I got a G3 ( d855p latinoamerica version) as a payment for a debt.
As far as i have readed this device in particular has a lot of heating issues, dead screens and damaged SOC´s.
My device has its battery damaged, i can only use it for about 3 hours. but it doesnt have any other noticeable issue (the screen its ok and i havent gotten any reboot, yet it heats a lot)
Is it worth the time (and money) buying another OEM battery, getting a 3rd party 6000 mah battery, or let it die?
Thanks in Advance for your answers.
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I've replaced mine about 2 years into usage, due to some heating, but mainly bootloop problems, and it works ok now. Zero bootloops.
However, while I had about 4-4.5h on-screen time on KitKat, I rarely pass the 3h mark now on Marshmallow.
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I've replaced mine about 2 years into usage, due to some heating, but mainly bootloop problems, and it works ok now. Zero bootloops.
However, while I had about 4-4.5h on-screen time on KitKat, I rarely pass the 3h mark now on Marshmallow.
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Forgot to mention it drains the battery even when the screen its off. ill try to change the rom and test the battery again on Kit Kat. Thanks
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Maybe battery just need a calibration: Battery Calibration - root or just flushing a stock rom to reset some software drain.
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The battery stats dont show anything weird. Ill go back to Kit Kat and test the battery again.
So I got a brand new pixel XL a few weeks ago. I was reluctant about the whole thing because even though it's a new phone. It has been sitting in a box for over a year without being charged or anything. So long story short, I got the phone and the battery life is awful. I took it off the charger this morning and within 5 min of being off the charger it's at 96%. I typed this and that's it. My work issued phone is a standard iPhone 7. Absolutely destroys this pixel XL in battery life. What is your experience with this phone? Do you think it would be worth ordering a battery and putting a new one in?
Depends on what version of android you are using. 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 were great with battery life, 8.0 sucks and I have heard people in the beta 8.1 are saying the battery life is spectacular.
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Depends on what version of android you are using. 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 were great with battery life, 8.0 sucks and I have heard people in the beta 8.1 are saying the battery life is spectacular.
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I'm on the 8.1 beta. This thing doesn't hold a candle to my Nexus 6p that I had.
That's interesting, there might be an app that isn't playing well with 8.1.
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snoprosledneck88 said:
So I got a brand new pixel XL a few weeks ago. I was reluctant about the whole thing because even though it's a new phone. It has been sitting in a box for over a year without being charged or anything. So long story short, I got the phone and the battery life is awful. I took it off the charger this morning and within 5 min of being off the charger it's at 96%. I typed this and that's it. My work issued phone is a standard iPhone 7. Absolutely destroys this pixel XL in battery life. What is your experience with this phone? Do you think it would be worth ordering a battery and putting a new one in?
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I didn't even consider the fact that a phone sitting in a box not charging for a year could effect the condition of the battery...is this really a valid concern? Would that really degrade the quality of the battery?
snoprosledneck88 said:
I'm on the 8.1 beta. This thing doesn't hold a candle to my Nexus 6p that I had.
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Something is wrong then as you have said, 8.1 is awesome on battery.
I would bite the bullet and factory reset it, and hold off putting any apps on it, or making any settings adjustments for a couple of days.
If that works, go slow adding apps. If it doesn't yeah get the battery replaced.
AP2FTW said:
I didn't even consider the fact that a phone sitting in a box not charging for a year could effect the condition of the battery...is this really a valid concern? Would that really degrade the quality of the battery?
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Battery's don't like to sit. That's why a lot of people that have cars that sit or recreational vehicle put battery tenders on them. Maybe this doesn't apply to the batteries in our phones
I don't know if all battery types work the same. Car/boat/etc. have lead-acid batteries, the old rechargeable and battery phones were nickel-metal-hydride, and modern phone batteries are Lithium Ion. They all have different characteristics when being used and stored.
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I did a factory reset. We will see if that helps.
Doesn't seem to be making a difference. At 92% with 22 min sot
One more test. Airplane mode.
TonikJDK said:
One more test. Airplane mode.
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What is that going to show?
snoprosledneck88 said:
What is that going to show?
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We know your apps are good...you just reset it. This will eliminate wifi or mobile freaking out. It's a long shot, I just like to eliminate possibilities.
TonikJDK said:
We know your apps are good...you just reset it. This will eliminate wifi or mobile freaking out. It's a long shot, I just like to eliminate possibilities.
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I guess my only concern is a phone is going to get good battery life while on airplane mode. Maybe not. But with that enabled I won't be able to use the phone for anything so it will just be in doze which would result in good battery life. I understand what you mean but I don't know if it will really show me results that are useful
snoprosledneck88 said:
I guess my only concern is a phone is going to get good battery life while on airplane mode. Maybe not. But with that enabled I won't be able to use the phone for anything so it will just be in doze which would result in good battery life. I understand what you mean but I don't know if it will really show me results that are useful
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Valid point. But I think a bad battery will continue to drain, maybe not as fast....but too fast for while on doze.
I've always read that the battery percentage isn't too accurate above 90%. Also, don't the phones stop charging once full and trickle as it depletes? There's apps that had been made to do this as well since it's supposed to be better for letting lithium batteries. I'd give it a day or 5 before thinking your battery is bad.
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mwalt2 said:
I've always read that the battery percentage isn't too accurate above 90%. Also, don't the phones stop charging once full and trickle as it depletes? There's apps that had been made to do this as well since it's supposed to be better for letting lithium batteries. I'd give it a day or 5 before thinking your battery is bad.
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I have had the phone for a few weeks and have just been kinda dealing with it. Maybe it's fine and I was just expecting more from it. So far it just has not been all that impressive.
Edit: your comment about the first 10% not being that accurate. There may be something to that because it does seem as though the first 10% goes fairly fast then it slows down after that. Maybe it's just something g that I need to get use to
snoprosledneck88 said:
I have had the phone for a few weeks and have just been kinda dealing with it. Maybe it's fine and I was just expecting more from it. So far it just has not been all that impressive.
Edit: your comment about the first 10% not being that accurate. There may be something to that because it does seem as though the first 10% goes fairly fast then it slows down after that. Maybe it's just something g that I need to get use to
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How much SOT are you getting in a day?
TonikJDK said:
How much SOT are you getting in a day?
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I'm at 2hr 46min @60% right now
snoprosledneck88 said:
I'm at 2hr 46min @60% right now
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Then i think your battery is good. Going by those numbers you will get around 6 hours of SOT.
I usually get around 3.25 hours of SOT with 50% remaining on 8.0 Oreo.