Hello there everyone
I have a small issue with my Xperia play I received today. I bought it used today did factory rest managed to root and install CWM however appon looking at the battery stats when fully charged it says it only has 30m of battery power
Is there anyway to find out if its just a dud battery or something wrong with the rom?
Some stats might help
Display is using 88% (that can't be normal?)
Wifi 4%
Cell standby 3%
You mean this? (look at the attachment).
If yes, 30m means your battery works for 30 minutes from the charging. It doesn't show its time to fully discharge the battery. You should not be worried.
4g 57m 0s means (from Polish) 4 hours 57 minutes 0 seconds ago I unplugged my phone from the charger when I got it fully charged.
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Oh see now I feel stupid lol I thought that was an expected battery life bar....blegh i'all get my coat and D hat now lol
Sincerely greatful for the speedy reply and help
No problem, man. I'm glad I helped you.
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i laughed hard, really
Hi All,
So recently I have been having problems with my battery life. It's not lasting as long as it should. However, I do not know whether or not its my data cable, the device that plugs into the wall, my battery, or the charging port in my phone.
I got my phone from best buy, but it was more than 30 days ago, and I have no insurance on it, so I cannot get a replacement without sending it away for at least $100.
Any tips?
Well what battery life are you getting? Get into the Phone settings and then battery settings and post a snapshot of the graph here. Additionally you can also install Batterystat it will give you a full analysis of what's using up your battery power.
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bushako said:
Well what battery life are you getting? Get into the Phone settings and then battery settings and post a snapshot of the graph here. Additionally you can also install Batterystat it will give you a full analysis of what's using up your battery power.
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I think I may have narrowed it down to the battery itself? I have some battery apps that tell me the health is "good," but what does that really mean? My charging cable is iffy, because sometimes it works perfectly, charging to 100 just fine. However, other times it charges 20 percent in 9 hours. When I used my friend's Note II charger, it worked perfectly every-time. But the fact of the matter is, when my phone does charge to 100 from my cable, I still get not the best battery life, which leads me to believe it's my battery's fault. I am going to test out charging my phone to 100% with my friend's cable tonight, and see what happens tomorrow. I will also get batterystat and report back.
Also, this may be important. When I first got my phone, battery life was AMAZING, really quite astounding. It's just kind of dropped down, like a slope. Not a sudden, dramatic drop, but incrementally.
As for the battery info below, here is what went on today. I unplugged my phone from 100% at around 7am. It is now 6pm. Today, my phone was barely used, just sitting in my pocket with wi-fi on. When I did use it, I sent two very quick emails, played scramble with friends for about 45 minutes total, took a few photos, listened to music from the music player for about 15 minutes, and that is really all I did. I feel that my percentage should be much higher than what it is listed as.
Here's mine as you can see I'm getting almost twice your battery life. I have a few apps that i use everyday which are basically whatsapp, xda, chrome. I don't have many apps that would wake the phone constantly and if there is then I disable them from starting up when the phone is not in use. The best tool you can use for something like this would be rom toolbox pro. It's multiple system tools in one and it works great. I'm currently on Omega V10 with perseus kernel. Also I don't connect to wifi much and network here is weak and on 2G but even though I still get this battery life. In areas with good signal I get more battery life. Also I've dropped my phone twice with impact points on the corner, and just minor scuffs but that didn't effect the phones performance or battery life so I doubt it has affected yours.
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Also I've overclocked, my processor to 1.8ghz and undervolted between - 50 and -100. So i get minimal power wastage from heat build up. Also you can set a black wall paper with a dark theme.
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Also I've overclocked, my processor to 1.8ghz and undervolted between - 50 and -100. So i get minimal power wastage from heat build up. Also you can set a black wall paper with a dark theme.
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Unfortunately, I am not rooted, and haven't planned on doing so ever. Is there anything else I can do to fix my problem? I did download batterystats, and am waiting a few days though to see what it tells me.
Also, I used a different charger just to see what would happen today, and even though its been off the charger for 2 hours, it's already down to 94 percent. So I am thinking that there is either something wrong with the battery, the charging port, or could there be a bug in the phone's software?
I am thinking of getting a new battery, and seeing if that fixes my problem. I'm just so irritated because battery life used to be amazing, and I don't know what happened.
Maybe try a factory reset. Maybe something else has been using your battery.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Maybe try a factory reset. Maybe something else has been using your battery.
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That's what I was thinking. I will probably do that and report back, before going out and buying a battery or something. Is it possible that, although not reported in the battery info, that an app could be rogue or something or taking up battery? I don't want to do a factory reset and redownload a bad app.
Update: I tried a factory reset. It seems to either be worse or just the same. It's been an hour and has dropped to 97 percent, but I have made a couple of phone calls. But compared to before I did a factory reset, it dropped to 96 percent in two hours while not doing anything.
Keep your phone on charging over night.
Then let it drain to zero no matter what.
Do this 3 to 4 times and then
Leave it for charging overnight.
Then while it is already charging use battery calibration.
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Keep your phone on charging over night.
Then let it drain to zero no matter what.
Do this 3 to 4 times and then
Leave it for charging overnight.
Then while it is already charging use battery calibration.
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Quick Update:
I did another factory reset after I said the initial one didn't help. It looks like it may have helped, although I still have not gotten the battery life I used to have.
I found an application here called betterybatterystats, and have downloaded that. I will use my phone throughout today, and will post sceenshots.
If need be, I will take your advice about charging and draining and charging, and then do the battery calibration.
Here are my most reset battery stats. Screenshots are from the battery setting area, and betterbatterystats
Maybe I am just being paranoid and nothing is wrong? I can't make any sense out of these readings, but I hope someone else can.
first of all change you cable if you are having that kind of issues. Mine in my galaxy ace was having that problem, it was like connect/disconnect without any reason and it didnt charged my phone at all. I noticed it when it was too late, the continous on/off kill my battery. When I say kill i mean it just lasts 15 min in 3g with screen on and it happened to me in 2 official batteries.
good luck!
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I've been using a Galaxy Note II since early February, and battery power has been absolutely amazing. However, the past several days, I've been experiencing extreme battery drainage. I didn't notice until this morning how severe it really was. I woke up for school at 7:15a.m. and it was 100% charged, but by the time I got in class at 8:15, it was already at 50%. Yes, I was using my phone on the way to school, but I only used Twitter for maybe twenty minutes, then turned off the screen. I don't have any heavy apps downloaded, and from what I can see, there are no rouge apps either. While I was charging when I got home (the battery was at 23% after desperately trying to save it all day) I noticed that the battery was actually draining instead of charging.
I've rebooted and tried using my sister's charger with no results. I set my screen brightness as low as possible, turned on power saving mode, and made sure that it says I'm charging under AC instead of USB. While charging my phone, my battery level at the beginning of this post was 68% and is now 63%.
What can possibly be wrong with my phone so out of the blue? Is it just a problem with the battery, or is there something I can do or at least try? Thank you for the feedback!
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my phone is not rooted
Try to see the battery usage in the settings maybe some app is causing that, also make sure your phone is going into deep sleep. Thats all I can say, I have to admit is draining very fast
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this problem is so common with samsung devices in general .. it is about the USB cable that comes with thim ... it sucks actually
this might help you : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2112811
for me ,,, i recommend an original HTC usb cable ,, it works perfect with me
I don't use the stock charger anymore I use a 1200mA compared to the 700mA of the stock
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I don't use the stock charger anymore I use a 1200mA compared to the 700mA of the stock
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The stock is 2 amp.
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samlives said:
The stock is 2 amp.
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I live in Ecuador so is a different volatge
I know battery issues are common on the gnex, but I couldn't find the specific issue I'm having. My phone charges the battery just fine, however it doesn't ever display the correct battery percentages. A 100% charged battery will only show 85% on my phone, and a 55% battery will show 0% on my phone and it will shut itself off. I've done lots of testing swapping with my wife's phone and can confirm that my phone is the problem. It does this with both the original 1850 mah battery and the 2100 mah Samsung extended. Because I can only use the 100% to 55% actual range (it shuts itself off because it thinks it's dead), my battery life is even shorter than usual. I've tried reflashing my rom and also a wipe of /data and /system before reflashing. Tried a few different kernels as well. My next step is to try a complete factory restore to stock, but before I do that has anyone had this issue before and is there a way to fix it?
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Just adding an update in case anyone else runs into this and is searching. It definitely is a hardware issue, as I had factory reset and tried several batteries. It continued to deteriorate until it would stop charging at 68%. I got a replacement from Verizon and lo and behold the replacement has the same issue (plus the handset speaker sounds awful). Now they are sending me a new one which I should get Monday. Hopefully that will be the end of this...
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Did you try a Battery calibration app?
Yes, out of desperation. As others have pointed out though, battery calibration apps just wipe the batterystats.bin file. This does nothing to actually calibrate the battery and android automatically does this every time you fully charge anyway. My device and it's replacement both had the issue. Got the new one and am going to swap tonight, here's hoping it works.
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Quick update, got my second replacement and it works just fine now.
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I recently traded for a rooted HTC one.
I'm pretty average with knowledge root and flashing
I have a problem when I flash a Rom my battery drops rapidly. If I reboot my phone I will go from 60% to 45& out of nowhere.
I used battery calibration when I flashed but I'm still having problems. Any suggestions?
Bmanzella527 said:
I recently traded for a rooted HTC one.
I'm pretty average with knowledge root and flashing
I have a problem when I flash a Rom my battery drops rapidly. If I reboot my phone I will go from 60% to 45& out of nowhere.
I used battery calibration when I flashed but I'm still having problems. Any suggestions?
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Battery calibration is a myth for starters. If you're dropping that much there is a good chance you could have a bad battery which is why the guy wanted to trade in the first place. To find out for sure. Flash the stock Rom and run it for a few days. Charge it to 100% and see if between reboots it drops large amounts. If it does then the battery is probably bad. The thunderbolt would do this when the battery started to die.
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If it is a bad battery, phone should still be warrantied by htc.
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Battery
I had a similar issue. My battery started staying at 100% when charged till reboot then would show correctly after reboot. Then started dropping 15-20% at a time or shutting down with 20% or more. Sent to HTC for repair. 10 days had it back good as new.