Hi all,
I have had my Elephone P8000 since October and since day 1, I notice that there is something very wrong with the last bits of battery in this phone:
After it hits 15%, is just discharges in a matter of seconds.
Reading on here and the original Elephone forums, I notice that this is an issue that affects EACH AND EVERY Elephone P8000, and according to a few developers it is a kernel problem. The fact is, that so far I have tried a number of different kernels and ROMs, including the Stock ones, and the problem does not seem to be solved by any way.
Could anybody by any change find a solution to this? This is by far my greatest complain about this phone.
I have had this a few times after flashing stock/custom roms. I just let the battery completely die then fully charged it to 100% plus an hour and within 2 cycles it sorts its self out.
Same here. I've had the Stock Rom and the same problems but letting it discharge to 0% and charge to 100% multiple times wasn't helping at all.
The battery problems with my older P6000 Pro have been even worse.
For now I just can say plug in your battery when it reaches 15%, this is your new "close to 0%".
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So,
I've flashed three or four ROMs over the last week (with a few different kernels) and they're ALL having the same issue:
I use the "miagi method" to fully charge the battery, but when the phone is ON, the blue LED comes on when the phone is still reading 83%. I turn it off, plug in, and after a few minutes it's at 100%. I've wiped stats, flashed ROMs and kernels and the problem persists.
I don't know if this is having an actual effect on battery life, but it sure is annoying.
lattiboy said:
So,
I've flashed three or four ROMs over the last week (with a few different kernels) and they're ALL having the same issue:
I use the "miagi method" to fully charge the battery, but when the phone is ON, the blue LED comes on when the phone is still reading 83%. I turn it off, plug in, and after a few minutes it's at 100%. I've wiped stats, flashed ROMs and kernels and the problem persists.
I don't know if this is having an actual effect on battery life, but it sure is annoying.
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I'm going to assume you've been to this forum?
Personally, with all the phones, re-roots, re-flashes, and Odin flashing I've done I've had no need to do any battery edits, so I am limited on experience. My question to you is this: Does it hang at 83% for a while when in use, or does it immediately begin to drop percentage as if the battery never charged beyond that point? I know that sometimes after a reboot, my phone will go from 50% to 20%, but then hang at 20% for hours since it is in actuality at 50%.
If none of that helps you at all, my suggestion is this. I found the same thing for half the cost several months ago elsewhere if you look. It came with 2 batteries, one for me and my wife. The included batteries are notably not quite as good as the original samsungs. However, carrying an extra battery gives flexibility, and the wall charger does a faster and more effective job at charging any battery.
Plus, then you'll have a battery while you're other one charges!
RandomKing said:
I'm going to assume you've been to this forum?
Personally, with all the phones, re-roots, re-flashes, and Odin flashing I've done I've had no need to do any battery edits, so I am limited on experience. My question to you is this: Does it hang at 83% for a while when in use, or does it immediately begin to drop percentage as if the battery never charged beyond that point? I know that sometimes after a reboot, my phone will go from 50% to 20%, but then hang at 20% for hours since it is in actuality at 50%.
If none of that helps you at all, my suggestion is this. I found the same thing for half the cost several months ago elsewhere if you look. It came with 2 batteries, one for me and my wife. The included batteries are notably not quite as good as the original samsungs. However, carrying an extra battery gives flexibility, and the wall charger does a faster and more effective job at charging any battery.
Plus, then you'll have a battery while you're other one charges!
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++ on This .... I've used that calibration method (the 2nd one, off method) and it worked well for me.
hi i can solve this just follow simple steps
discharge your battery upto 17 percent
than use back camera with flash on take pictures with flash your phone will power off suddenly after 2 to 10 pictures.
just plug in charger issue is resolved your battery will be charged upto 100 percent
Has anyone experienced sudden rise of battery drain that is not related to firmware? I am facing issue with 9 months old battery, usually re-charged slightly with rare full cycles, that shows 4-5% drop per hour in standby/screen-off mode (all connectivity off). I have tried couple different clean ROMs installations without changes to this effect (Runnymede AIO v4.0, then v6.5 and less resource consuming Cyanogenmod 7.1 too). I tried to calibrate battery (at least in three different ways, with wiping battery stats etc) with no success. In desperation I did full cycle keeping device turned off for one night with charger plugged in, no results either. Battery starts at 100% and constantly goes down somewhere to 5-10% when it forces device to shut down.
I am curious why is that happening, especially that 3 months ago I could run for 2-3 days using phone from time to time, now on screen-off it cannot last more than one day? BTW I did not change my habits for last 2 months, I have not kept battery in freezing cold or kitchen oven when charging etc I would expect that Li-ion battery capacity degradation is constant and rather linear process.
Now I can look for someone that borrow me second battery for comparison, or I need to buy a new one (something like cheap Andida 1800mAh one).
Any other suggestions except for recycling the phone?
EDIT: Now I am completely astonished... saying "connectivity off" I meant everything except for regular cellular network. After switching to "airplane mode" my currently used runnymede AIO v4.0 drained battery only 1% per hour! First thought was "roaming problems" (because I came from Europe to Abu Dhabi / UAE in business last week) and I googled some complains on battery drains when traveling. I wish that would be a problem but I added another variable to the equation -- I installed MIUI ROM which gave me 1-2% per hour with GSM switched on. Radio is untouched when reflashing ROM, MIUI is close to Cyanogenmod (same kernels, also lightweights) but the latter was also sucking down on 5% level... so what is it? damn this pocket computers
cheers,
-andy.
To help others struggling with battery issues - mine is solved. It was roaming problem specific to United Arab Emirates !!! After returning home everything is fine, less than 1% per hour. Also roaming in Germany did not cause drain even though signal strength was on similar level as in UAE. Thread closed.
there is a thread for battery drain issues
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334052
My defy battery has been playing up every cycle now. Tried using battery calibration. Been trying both Quark and Eppy builds. Now on the latest Defy Quark build. Got a green lens defy. Haven't a clue what is wrong.
Nothing explains the massive drops. It always happens around these points every cycle.
Any solutions?
I'm having the same problem with my green lens Defy. When battery is between 40-30% it suddenly drops about a 10-15%.
I haven't been able to found a solution to the problem yet (I have yet to try battery fix, but i think only red lense Defy's need it).
At first i thought it was a battery calibration problem, but after wiping stats everything remained the same way as before (now I know that wiping those stats does absolutely nothing to the battery).
I hope it's a software related problem and not my battery dying.
I think it is ics-based. I experienced after calibration (Hard-battery-script) two drops every circle, 55-49% and 29/26-19%.
Cheers for the information guys. It's good to know I'm not alone. I couldn't find anything on it!
The only things I can relate is that it is on green lens defy's. Maybe...
Is there no solutions for you guys? I found that calibration did nothing too.
How long have you guys had the problem for?
I first found this bug after flashing CM7.2 RC1. After seen it twice, I decided to wipe battery stats but it didn't work.
After that, I flashed CM9 (epsylon build) and was behaving the same way as CM7.
I couldn't tell if this bug was happening on stock Froyo, since it didn't have any kind of battery graph and I wasn't noticing anything suspicious to install a more detailed battery app.
Easy,guys.
Although its battery has these two gaps,
it remains on power which means it lasts longer at every 1% than before when there's no gaps.
I have kept a record when I just purchased defy.
That time is 2.4 hours per 1%(full discharge) mobile(2G) standby,
and now I have these gaps (14% total)as you mentioned,but it lasts 2.8 hours per 1% at first 20% then 2.7-2.5 hours per 1% to the last.
Actually,it is the same amount and this is under 1 year use!
is it my phone or battery
im using cm9.
my original defy suddenly died (got swollen) so i bought 2 new battery from two diff. supplier. (SNn5885A). it charges ok for the first time but i noticed on the first battery when it got drained. it wont charge anymore. it got stuck on 4%. the other battery, not wanting to fully drained it, turned it off at around 50%. but when i tried to turn it on this morning, it got the same thing as the other battery.
the question is, is it my phone f* the battery or they are just no good? how will i know?
thanks
Hi All,
I am having troubled battery stat since I last flashed to a custom rom.
The battery will NOT reach the CHARGED status, and hence the battery stat did not reset and go on for days.
This morning I have decided to do a full wipe, but it appear that the same problem persist, at 68% on AC (most of the time stop at a random value) , it says NOT Charging.
I also thought that it could be the battery that was giving the problem, so i tried with a spare battery that i have, same results. Even when i Swap battery the stats stays.
Screenshot of battery stat. with AC power connected after a full wipe
Many people (myself included) have been having similar issues as of late. I too have separate batteries, neither of which is older than 6 months, and both exhibit similar behavior. I'm sure you've looked through and perhaps saw these threads, but I am trying to shed more light on the issue as it is perplexing many.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1794231
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2080383
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2059289
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1973097
my troubles started soon after i flashed my first 4.2 rom. it started with only charging to 90%, now my one battery gets to 68% while my other only gets to 65% (30% loss in the past month). I am hoping an explanation comes up soon.
I had the same problem too, but for me the solution was switching between a few roms and calibrating my battery (wiping the battery stats). What ROM are you using?
I am on paranoid android, it was working fine until i did beta 8... and never able to do again..
what rom did you switch around to get it fixed?
Does anyone know any certain solution for this problem ?
After 4.2 upgrade , my battery gets to about 80 % and everyday It decreases
It bothering me and since in my country Google has not any agency for warranty replacement or repair,I'm gonna sell my Gnex if It problem goes on !
It's really strange. I have the same problem also, using either the official Apple 5v @ 1amps charger or a samsung charger with the same specs my phone only goes to 98% 99%, but when I use a generic charger ( I only used a 1-2 times with GNex) that's rated 5.2 volts (scares me) at 800mah it reaches 100%, as it does with the PC also.
Hey
Had the device since around August '14 and never had any issues. Recently though I've had some seriously bad issues with charging. I was running Paranoid Android and my device died, once it finally reboot and started charging it took 5 hours to get from 4% to 70% - With completely no usage. I then got home and flashed the latest Resurrection Remix (Just in case the ROM was the issue) and unfortunately my problem has worsened.
Device takes literally 12 hours+ to charge from under 10% to 99% (I haven't seen it yet 100% in 2 days). When it finally does charge it drains quickly from the lightest of usage (WHILST still charging). I've tried 3 different main plugs and sockets, numerous USBs (From the official LG one to Samsung, Huawei, Polaroid, unbranded etc etc) and my problem still remains.
I can't just flash back to stock as it's currently dead and refusing to charge (Takes a lot of messing around just to get it to turn on and charge from 1%).
Any help would be very much appreciated as I've never had this problem on any of my devices, when I checked my battery health last week it was still reading as 'Healthy' so I really don't think the issue lies in the battery or chargers.
Thank you,
Curtis.
When you said you flashed back to stock, have you used the TOT method?
Noted that you mentioned that your battery should be fine, but probably worth to check it with another battery.
Regards
Sent from my phone