Hi, I had my desire serviced for battery unrelated problems. When it came back with a new MB (or so they state) my battery woes began. My desire eats the battery 3-4x faster that before. Even if I swap batteries with my friends, who also has a Desire, the one in my phone lasts only 12hour on Stand-by in airplane-mode with display Off!
I've tried running battery benchmark and get around 7000 sec (with my and friends battery), while my friend gets 20000+ with both batteries.
So obviously the problem is my phone. After the battery problem the service changed my MB again (the phone went dead) and the new MB eats the battery again!
What could be the cause? What is inside the phone besides the MB, battery and display?
are you using a custom rom? some of them are very heavy on battery life and drain it quickly
default HTC android 2.2
I got the exact some problem =/ it's a hardware bug, even on different ROMS my battery goes from 90% 10% in just 5 hours, without even touching the device...
Check battery health:
Open dialer, type *#*#4636#*#* > Battery information.
maybe your calibration is messed up, try using BatteryCalibration app
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Hey all.
I have my LG Opt. G Pro E986 on Stock Firmware. It's rooted and has this Kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2363330.
Overall I'm ok with my battery life, around 2 days of usage with 6 hours screen-on time. Standby time is very good.
My problem is the following:
If my phone is around 30% battery it starts to drain a lot. I don't even have to use it and it's empty within 3-4 hours. The power consumption at this point is immense and i can't figure out why, there is nothing I am doing different than normal use. I even try to use it as less as possible at this battery level, but it just keeps going down.
I have Quad-Core management always on, power saving mode always off. I also do not have any other power saving applications or settings running.
Processor is on stock clockspeed, Voltage is on stock too, no Cores are disabled.
I searched for draining apps via Battery Stats Plus but did not found anything.
Useless Tasks/Processes etc. are disabled via App Quarantine.
I have this problem for a long time and now decided to ask for help.
Does anyone have the same problem? Can someone help my fix this issue?
Thanks a lot.
I see it too on stock battery but not on the zerolemon 3150 mah battery...it seems related to the way the phone measures battery %ge for the stock battery I guess
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Well ok, if this is the case is there any way to fix it without buying a new battery?
I ordered one with 3800 mAh, but it was crap and didn't even last half as long as the original one, so i wasn't able to compare them regarding my problem.
HI! Yesterday i flashed Android revolution on my HTC ONE X 32GB and my battery is doing some strange things my battery is at 100 percent and it's changing the percentage every 6-7 percentage Any idea how to fix that because it's so annoying
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HI! Yesterday i flashed Android revolution on my HTC ONE X 32GB and my battery is doing some strange things my battery is at 100 percent and it's changing the percentage every 6-7 percentage Any idea how to fix that because it's so annoying
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I have the same issue. Although mine sometimes jumps down in 5% increments (or in some rare cases 4%) in all the ROMS I've tried.
You could try calibrating the battery but some say it's just a placebo.
I've decided to change the battery entirely and see if it fixes it (and maybe get better battery life).
Good luck!
I know it's a dinosaur of a device but I've got it modded and it's a good phone and works great. Ok what happens is the battery charges and holds and lasts all day but the level indicator says 100% all the time until the phone shuts down. I've flashed stock firmware from 4.4.2 to 6.0 and 3 or 4 different custom ROMs and it is the same no matter what I do. I have seen it show different battery levels in booting up after flashing something or a situation like that but its a unstable reading because of the way it'll fluctuate. So I'm thinking it's a hardware issue. The phone works as it should with the exception of that. It has a original oem lg battery unknown if it's been replaced or it's got some kind of fault. It's basically my work phone my side chic to my Nexus 6 because the SD card storage holds my music so it would be nice to have that working so I know when it's going to die. Anybody else with this issue. Thanks in advance.
Was the battery ever changed? I think it May be related to battery
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Was the battery ever changed? I think it May be related to battery
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That I'm not sure of, it's a oem lg battery and it works good and lasts all day, actually surprisingly very good battery life that's what made me think it was internals because if I reboot into recovery and then back out out when it boots it'll say battery is is dead and shut back off, but I'll reboot again OR just plug it in for a sec it'll boot back up with 100% battery life. It never gives a accurate reading. Well I'll order a new battery off e.bay there only 7$ to 10$ for a original lg battery. It's a great phone for what it is with some mods it's fast as hell.
Hello.
Two weeks ago I replaced my battery (2 years old) bacause the phone bagan to shut down on 35%, it was getting very hot, with very short life after recharge and so on.
They replaced it with genuine battery and now it's not so much better. Yes, now it goes to 1% and then it shuts down, but still the battery gets very hot and the battery life is not much better than the old one. I installed AccuBattery and it showed Estimated capacity: 2000mAh so I decided to try the guides in the forum for battery calibration... now the estimated capacity is 1400mAh
It's running on Oreo firmware and a custom rom Android 10.
What can I do? Is the battery defective?
Any help will be appriciated!
Thank you!
Darn I can relate to your situation, as mine says about 1837 MAH estimate in accubattery, I just bought this phone about 2 weeks ago from someone on craiglist, got it pretty cheap. I was also thinking of changing my battery but it looks like pretty difficult job. Like the most difficult there is just about.
Are you familiar with the HTC battery test? I'm curious what your old vs new batteries would have scored. My phone is on the charger right now and then when it gets to 100 I am going to run that test finally. I have been using accubattery and charged and discharged the battery a couple times since I bought it which helped (it was estimated as low as 44% capacity at one point ). Right now mine is 63% capacity.
Some lean towards it being a software issue. Also hard to say the source of the new battery and they do sit on the shelf 2 years probably at least since the phone is from 2016.
I am reading a thread and trying to find out what the best rom is for this phone and it might help the battery too. I am just having a problem with Windows 7 connecting (the driver install error, need to reinstall the drivers, M9 also has problem connecting to Windows PC so I can't unlock the bootloaders yet).
Update: I forgot to mention, mine hovers around 60-65% in accubattery, and says about 3.5 hours screen on time. BUt I have not been using this as my phone so I am gonna try that after the battery test and see what I am averaging. I am a light user, wanted a metal phone because they are stronger. A Motorola G7 Power would be a good phone if someone wants battery life and not too expensive on ebay.
This is the thread I am checking out: https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/q-htc-10-power-hungry-htc-one-m8-t3791451
Hi.
I tried HTC test tool but it didn't show anything. Unfortunately, I hadn't run any tests with AccuBaterry with the old battery and I cannot compare. I'm beginning to think that it's the battery sitting on the shelf for years (I don't know how much time they can sit this way without worsening their properties) or the Android version. In fact when the phone was new, it had an excellent battry life and after I updated to Oreo firmware (official rom) the battry life got worse. I will try installing older rom, maybe even go back to stock to see if there is any difference.
While charging I see on lock screen Rapid Charge, then it goes to Charge, then Slow Charge... It's changing... I don't know if it's normal. Does it change this way for you?
Have you installed accubattery? You should, because it will tell you how your battery compares to the rated stock MAH capacity.
I ran the HTC Battery test, it drains the battery a bit for one hour, and if yours is 70% or higher after that, it is considered good. Mine was at 89% so that is not too bad.
Try again to run the HTC battery test, it's on page 2 of the tests. Also, I installed a program called generic battery drainer, because you want to cycle your battery to condition/calibrate it (especially with an older batter). When I ran that the first time my phone crashed at about 30-40 percent, and got hot. But then after that, the battery started acting more normal with each and every charge and recharge. That and using accubattery to tell me each time how much my battery was holding. According to accubattery my battery holds about 63% (about 1800mah). Accubattery says that it will give me about 4 hours of screen on time. It is not horrible nore is it that great.
With accubattery, you need to have the phone turned on while charging to gather the stats. I like it and I Think it really helps give me perspective on my battery.
I am thinking of getting a Moto G7 Power so that when we have an EMP attack I can still play videos games lol, just need to get an EMP proof storage of some kind to keep it in.
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Have you done the HTC battery reset? (3-button hold-down for 2 minutes)? DO that first, then charge to 100% and run the test.
To run the HTC Battery test, first charge your battery all the way to 100%, then type " * # * # 3 4 2 4 # * # *". On the 2nd page there's a battery test function.
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Hi.
I tried HTC test tool but it didn't show anything. Unfortunately, I hadn't run any tests with AccuBaterry with the old battery and I cannot compare. I'm beginning to think that it's the battery sitting on the shelf for years (I don't know how much time they can sit this way without worsening their properties) or the Android version. In fact when the phone was new, it had an excellent battry life and after I updated to Oreo firmware (official rom) the battry life got worse. I will try installing older rom, maybe even go back to stock to see if there is any difference.
While charging I see on lock screen Rapid Charge, then it goes to Charge, then Slow Charge... It's changing... I don't know if it's normal. Does it change this way for you?
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No I have not had that issue of it showing different charging rates with the same charger. It could be the cable has a short in it.
How long can you watch videos on youtube on Wifi for?
I ran my htc 10 and my HTC M9 head to head, both on youtube via wifi, watching the same at first but also some different and then later the same videos, until the phones drained and shut off.
Screen brightness for this test turned up to 100% btw.
HTC 10= 3 hours and 14 minutes
HTC M9= 3 hours and 38 minutes
Both phones are used i got the 10 on cl, the 9 on ebay. THe HTC 10 my orange led light does not function although the green led does work, I might try and run the led test. The 10 still has 63% capacity on accubattery. The estimated SOT is 4 hrs 4 minutes.
Has anything changed with yours for the estimated capacity? Have you charged and discharged a few times? Also try uninstalling and reinstalling accubattery then charge it some more, alswyas charge it 20 percent or more at a time it says for accurate estimates.
On a side note unrelated to battery I want to get my HTC Phones to work with windows 7 but the driver install never works so far.
Hi cannabiscure.
It's still the same, about 1750 mAh. I've tried the battery reset with the 3 keys before but actually the Accubattery showed less after that. I don't know, maybe it's not related and maybe I didn't made it right. I'll try again and test it but I need to install rom with Sense because it seems 3424 code is not working on pure Android. Reinstalling Accubattery does not change the readings. But I installed an app called Device HW Info and it shows 2700 mAh when the battery is on 100%. This seems far more logical for a new battery. It also shoes something called Kernel profile - 2744/3049 mAh. I don't know what does this mean.
I'm not watching many videos on youtube on the phone. Most of the time I'm browsing.
What is your screen on time (SOT)? How many hours does it say in the stock battery app and also in accubattery?
I got 3.25 hrs watching youtube on wifi with the screen on the highest brightness, so I could probably get at least 4 hours just web browsing and the screen on about 60-70 percent which is what I normally would use.
Are you using wifi or cell data for browsing, and how good is your connection?
Does rapid charging work on your replacement battery? I heard some don't.
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Hi cannabiscure.
It's still the same, about 1750 mAh. I've tried the battery reset with the 3 keys before but actually the Accubattery showed less after that. I don't know, maybe it's not related and maybe I didn't made it right. I'll try again and test it but I need to install rom with Sense because it seems 3424 code is not working on pure Android. Reinstalling Accubattery does not change the readings. But I installed an app called Device HW Info and it shows 2700 mAh when the battery is on 100%. This seems far more logical for a new battery. It also shoes something called Kernel profile - 2744/3049 mAh. I don't know what does this mean.
I'm not watching many videos on youtube on the phone. Most of the time I'm browsing.
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