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Another ODD battery problem

Since I have upgraded to WM6 with the official ROM release for AT&T I have been having odd battery issues.
I forgot to charge my phone last night but when I left the house this morning it showed 40%.
I stream audiobooks from my phone to my car stereo via Bluetooth and less than 10 minutes into the drive I received a low battery warning. By the time I got to work which is about a half hour drive the phone switched itself to airplane mode and then powered down. I could not get it to come back on until I plugged into my PC at work and then it booted so it had been fully shut down.
I have noticed at other times that the battery level goes from a high number to a low number VERY quickly. It also seems to charge very quickly and can go to a full charge from a USB connection in just about 2 hours.
Anyone else see this? It was a very steady reliable discharge rate under WM5. I have seen others talking about the OS potentially mis-reading the battery level but have seen nothing conclusive. I think perhaps it is just not updating the actual battery level when it should so when I see it at 40% it was really very low and just had not updated.
Anybody else???

I havent had my phone for long and flashed it immediately to Windows Mobile 6, but what I have noticed is that it charges pretty fast and I just notices just now that if I turn the phone off while still plugged in for charging but the charge indicator on the phone was green when it was on changed to orange to indicate charging when I turned the phone off. So maybe there is something at the software level affecting the charging process as turning the phone completely off allows me to charge even further than when the phone was on.

What has worked for a number of people is to let the phone get to 0% battery so it shuts the GSM off and then itself, then plug it into the mains charger overnight. This seems to have the effect of re-calibrating the battery meter. I have no idea if this actually works or if its complete coincidence but a number of people in various Schaps threads have had success with this. There is also the possibility that your battery is just screwed. Most of us I assume have devices that are a year or more old and mobile batteries dont last very long especially in power hungry devices like the Hermes.

Another battery Observation!
I have experimented with 3g off al day, and only E (Edge) was displayed on top. 12 hours, 5 phone calls equal to 36 minutes total, I had 60% left on battery. Same hours, 5 Phone calls, with 3G turned on, 42 minutes of conversation, one email sent, 5 received, battery displays 90%. I believe EDGE is what consumes power and drains the battery. leave on 3G and your battery will indeed last longer.

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johnny13oi said:
I havent had my phone for long and flashed it immediately to Windows Mobile 6, but what I have noticed is that it charges pretty fast and I just notices just now that if I turn the phone off while still plugged in for charging but the charge indicator on the phone was green when it was on changed to orange to indicate charging when I turned the phone off. So maybe there is something at the software level affecting the charging process as turning the phone completely off allows me to charge even further than when the phone was on.
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I have noticed at home that when I plug it in to my Linux box (no synching of course) the charge light comes on briefly then shuts off and may come back on after about 10 seconds. I suspect in my case it may be the cable going bad but it only just started since the WM6 upgrade.

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asfoor said:
I have experimented with 3g off al day, and only E (Edge) was displayed on top. 12 hours, 5 phone calls equal to 36 minutes total, I had 60% left on battery. Same hours, 5 Phone calls, with 3G turned on, 42 minutes of conversation, one email sent, 5 received, battery displays 90%. I believe EDGE is what consumes power and drains the battery. leave on 3G and your battery will indeed last longer.
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After a full charge yesterday afternoon I used my phone for a bit of reading an e-book for a half hour, 40 minutes listening to audio streamed via Bluetooth yesterday afternoon and another 40 minutes on the drive to work this morning and the phone is down to 50%. Wifi is disabled and I had no phone calls in that time. The only other usage is it automatically updating calendar and contacts with my exchange server but only every 4 hours ending at 6:00pm so that is not a big drain.
I have the device set to shut off the screen after 3 mins inactivity (not just backlight) but the battery drain seems to be much faster than it was with WM5. Perhaps it will straighten itself out with a few discharges and re-charges.

Heat protection ? shut down ?

Hello,
Yesterday I forgot my phone in my car at 8am...
In the day I call it from my work, and it didn't ring, direct to "answering machine" (?)
at 7pm, I came back to my car, the phone was OFF, I powered it, 87% of battery remaining...
I don't know it was OFF, so my question is : Is there a heat protection that shut down the phone ?
Because I don't know why it was off.
Thank you

My phone gets pretty damn hot. Never had it shut down on me.
Was is plugged in?

I have had my phone restart on me a couple of times now due to the heat issue. Without the phone being charged i get battery temp readings of 41 degrees. It gets higher when plugged in to the charger

Your car interior can get over 60 degrees C in a short time if in the sun! I wouldn't be surprised if the phone shut itself down.
I've seen 40 degrees plus on normal usage and the phone seems fine.

[Q] Battery takes forever to charge lately

I've noticed that since I upgraded to CM-101 (I'm now on 106) that my battery takes FOREVER to charge. For instance, last night I went to bed around 1am and put my phone on the wall charger it was on 17% and when I unplugged it at 9am it was only 67% charged.
I'm at work right now and I plugged my phone about two hours ago and it was at 50% - two hours later and it's at 64%. Before it would at least be at 80% by now.
I haven't installed anything that I would think affect this (no major notifications, etc..)

nolageek said:
I've noticed that since I upgraded to CM-101 (I'm now on 106) that my battery takes FOREVER to charge. For instance, last night I went to bed around 1am and put my phone on the wall charger it was on 17% and when I unplugged it at 9am it was only 67% charged.
I'm at work right now and I plugged my phone about two hours ago and it was at 50% - two hours later and it's at 64%. Before it would at least be at 80% by now.
I haven't installed anything that I would think affect this (no major notifications, etc..)
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Check your wake time, it could be that your phone is staying awake and sucking up the juice that should be charging it. Also, does your battery die quickly? A possible culprit could be tango, it has a bug that doesn't allow the phone to sleep.

Download Watchdog Lite and see what's going on in the background.

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Download Watchdog Lite and see what's going on in the background.
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I'll check out watchdog lite and see what it tells me. It did it again last night. I plugged it in at 12:30am and was at 23% - this morning I woke up at 9am and it was only at 89%. I turned it off and left it charging another 15 minutes and it was up to 96% when I turned it back on. With light usage (20minutes using Music and checking email/SMS message a few times) it's now 11:42am and my battery is down to 51%. It hasn't been this bad in at least a couple of months.
The only that I did over the weekend out of the ordinary was use one of those AA powered portable-chargers that I bought at a drugstore because I was down to 16% and wasn't going to be near a charger all day/evening. Could that have messed something up with my battery?

Worst ever
Mine too!!! this is crazy!!! my O2X take forever to charge and this not my first smart phone... i had HD2, touch pro, desire... all HTC. The only thing is this samsung n dual-core... doesnt make sense!!! so far anybody has resolution for this? HELP!!!!

Same with mine. Did you guys do the OTA update? I did it to watch Green Hornet and it wasn't doing it before.
I plugged it in at 1am @ around 50-60% and woke up at 8am and it was only @ 88%!
I used the wall charger, so it should be getting 1 amp.
UPDATE:
f*cking duh! ooops, my bad! I was developing last night and left STAY AWAKE WHILE CHARGING enabled!

Moto 360 won't go past 92% charging

Hey guys just checking in if anybody has had this issue and a solution. My moto 360 charges up until 92% and then discharges after that point. It never gets to a 100%. I've tried rebooting the device, even resetting it and it's still stuck at 92%. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I may have the same issue as of late. Cant seem to get it past 94%.....

I was having the same problem. I let the moto 360 battery run out completely until the watch turned off, then I let it charge on the dock overnight. It sits at 100% now, but the dock light never goes off.
cycling the battery a couple times might help, it did for me at least.

For me it didn't get past 98% for a good 4 hours within the first few days. So it's all about the charging cycles. Well for me anyways. Mine charges pretty quick to 100% now without much issue. This is with the 4.4w.1 update of course.

I just received mine yesterday, set it up, charged to about 97% last night and turned it off. Woke up this morning and finished the charge before leaving for work so that I was starting with a clean 100%. So far this morning I've been playing with it pretty heavily and showing it off to people at work but did notice that the percentages have been swinging back and forth a few times, like for example, after a period of heavy activity I checked the battery and it was at 94% but in checking a few minutes later it was up to 95%.
This sort of reminds me of when I flash a new AOSP rom on my phone and it takes a day or so for the battery and software to get in sync with each other. The graphs on battery history (still talking about the phone) show percentage going up a little, like the software predicts what it should be but then somehow determines that it has overcompensated and credits you a few percentage points. After a few days this effect goes away on the phone and it appears to settle.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-360/help/moto-360-charging-t2871091
Happened to me maybe 3 times. I dont know what it is. Sometimes restarting works. I even flipped the watch upside down and that worked. one time it stuck at 97% and after it restarted, it showed 100%

RodrigoKim said:
I was having the same problem. I let the moto 360 battery run out completely until the watch turned off, then I let it charge on the dock overnight. It sits at 100% now, but the dock light never goes off.
cycling the battery a couple times might help, it did for me at least.
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Since the new update the dock light won't turn off.

RodrigoKim said:
I was having the same problem. I let the moto 360 battery run out completely until the watch turned off, then I let it charge on the dock overnight. It sits at 100% now, but the dock light never goes off.
cycling the battery a couple times might help, it did for me at least.
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Thanks for this. I completely drained my 360 and now it goes to 100%

This is what I posted in other thread:
I can honestly say that I found the issue of the Moto 360 getting stuck while charges, since I bought it almost 3 weeks ago I hadn't been able to get a full charge in my bedroom, I live in Puerto Rico and here is basically Summer all year, average temperatures 80-85 with lower around 65 degrees on Christmas time and highest around 95-100% during July and August, plus 75-90% humidity. Well, with all that said, my bedroom is closed all day, so when I get home it's very hot, as soon as I get there I open windows and all doors but it takes a while to get it cooler. Since I got the Moto 360, I was getting home, changing clothes and putting the watch to charge, it never fully charged, I've tried everything suggested here and other forums, the only place it charged completely was on my Family Room where I have a lot of ventilation and is way colder than my bedroom.
Last Wednesday I got home and just turn the A/C on as soon as I got there, 30 minutes later I put my watch to charge and it charged fully for the first time, so immediately I realized that the only difference this time was that the room was cooler. So I decided to make some tests and I have concluded that every time I put my phone to charge in a cool room it charges completely, but as soon as I try to do it in a warm or hot room it never fully charges, it's obvious that the watch gets warm and hotter while charging so if the environment in which you are charging it it's even hotter it just stops charging, maybe to just protect itself or something.
Those of you with the same issue, just try this and see what happens. Good luck

Hello,
My Moto 360 seems to be stuck at 83 or 84% after a full night on the charger...
It's been the case for the two previous nights, at least.
I've tried restarting the watch, before putting it again on the charger -> No change, still stuck at 84%.
I've then tried resetting it, reinstalling and charging -> No change, still stuck at 84%
After reading posts where people stated that a complete discharge/recharge cycle would let them get back to 100% charge, I tried that as well.
The good news is that it took 28h for my watch's battery to deplete completely, quite significantly more than what I expected.
The bad news is that it charged up to 85%, then down to 83/84% again while seated on the charger.
In a desperate attempt to find something else to try, I put my Moto 360 on another Qi charger, and the battery level climbed up to 92%, which was encouraging... Unfortunately, it stopped there, and didn't go up to 100%, so I don't know what I can make of all this.
As for the theory about the room temperature, it's always been the same here, between 20 and 25°C (70-75°F), so not anything I would call hot.

So I got mine a few days ago and I've noticed when on the charger I get 2 different level of screen brightness. I've also had the problem of only getting 94% some times 97% but what I found that worked was that if I turn the watch off then put it on the charger it turns on and the charging display is really dim and it gets to 100%. If I just put it on the charger the display does not get as dim. The fastest and best charge is with the display off I've been playing with getting this done but haven't found a sure way to get the display off while charging.
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I think there is something to the temperature idea. When I first got it, the weather was pleasant, never going above the upper 70s, so my living room was also pleasant, and it charged to 100% within an hour with no problems. Since the cursed summer heat, of 85-90 everyday, I can't get it past 98%. Which is not too bad, but I can't help waiting for another cooler day (hopefully before the fall) to see if it can get to 100% quickly again.

I do not have any problems getting my 360 to charge to 100%. What I do when charging is to set the 360 on its charger. Then with my phone I turn on Ambient Screen. When the 360 screen dims I turn off the Ambient screen. This keeps the 360 screen dark for quite a while. Works for me.
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Phone dies now around 10% ?

Very odd ever since the phone died since it was really cold out ( i left it in car for a few seconds and looked at my phone and it was dead ) its been shuting off or dieing around 10% left but drains normally. but can still turn it back on once its plugged into a wall charger. so im not sure on what to do cause i mean i only had it for a year now.

it happens with mine too, 2-3 weeks ago.
I had 40%+ and after few sec, was dead too.
I turn it on with 1% battery lol

was thinking of letting it die once then letting it cable charge not fast charge saw a video for an older phone to do that with some call code to reset the battery gauge

Xnitro67 said:
was thinking of letting it die once then letting it cable charge not fast charge saw a video for an older phone to do that with some call code to reset the battery gauge
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I have the same problem since a few weeks.
The percentage drops from 15% to zero.

Mine was a bit different, I was in 13% and then when I plugged in the cable to charge my phone, it showed I was actually in 6%. My friends, our phone is aging

Since it became cold outside I'm having the same problem

Yes
I had this problem with my Galaxy A5 2016 and now with my Galaxy S9...
Never go under 10% if you can't charge within 1 minute or better less. That's why I have a battery case.

So I think I fixed mine a video is for a note 4 ut I think it worked for mine also. Make sure your phone is almost dead and turn off fast charging then go to the phone dial up (built in app) and dial *#0228# and click the quick start (this will restart your battery gauge) let it die then charge to full might take longer but it's worth it.