Hi all, I tried UTFSE but couldn't find anything relevant, if I missed it please link! My S20 Ultra snapdragon lasts alllllllll day, 120hz or QHD, medium to heavy usage, all good. Then hits 10%... Within minutes, it's at 5% then dies within a minute or 2. Had trouble finding stories like mine, is it just me? Unrooted, is there an easy way to reset battery stats? It's been awhile since I rooted, but I remember being able to boot to menu and reset battery stats, idr if that required root tho.
Add-on: phones a beast, is it even worth it to root just for performance/ease of use? Wouldn't root for any other reason really. Is it easy to root with Macbook? Appreciate all help, links, thank you guys!!!
Facing the same issue. For me whenever battery reaches to 5% it dies like in a minute. Tried resetting the battery stats too but didn't worked. If someone has some solution then please post.
If the phone is a beast, why did the phone die? ?
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I seem to get really excellent battery life when I wipe batterystats.bin after recharging to 100% at night. After a couple recharge cycles, battery life starts to get a little worse each time. But if I wipe again after a recharge, it adds a good 4-5 hours to my battery life.
I don't know why my phone/battery work this way together - they just seem to. I am wondering if there is any downside to deleting batterystats.bin EVERY time I recharge? Is it harmful to the battery? I doubt it is a problem for the phone but maybe so?
Thanks for any advice.
[EDIT: I realized after posting that this maybe would be better in the Q&A section of forum. I would move it there myself but don't have rights to do that. I'm sorry.]
only need to do it once.... .. i do it once per new rom/kernel.... you have to let that stuff work itself out.... let it chill for a week or so... just run it....
....i put a new rom on... .then kernel.. after i get it configured.. that night i charge it over night to 100.... then before i take it off.. i delete batstat with root explorer.... then unplug it... let it go down... .. charge it back to 100... . i'm telling you.. well for me... my battery last awhile.....i'm on nightly cm with savzen kernel.
good luck!.... if anything..get you a 1800mah battery from ebay.. there like 2 with charger for 7.99~....
I am wondering if there is any downside to deleting batterystats.bin EVERY time I recharge?
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Well you only need to do it once after flashing, after that, its useless. You THINK you are getting better battery life, but you are not.
Is it harmful to the battery?
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Does nothing to the battery, the battery will still hold the same charge as before, and discharge the same way. The only thing you are doing is resetting the OS's 0%-100% stats, which again, is only needed to be done once.
You may be getting better battery life because after deleting the file if you aren't following through with the rest of the calibration process. After deleting, are you letting it discharge fully, then charge fully without breaks? If not, do it that way once & you shouldn't need to do it again.
But to answer your question - no, it won't harm anything. If you aren't calibrating properly after each battery stats wipe, then it may mess with your battery life. Other than that, you've got nothing to worry about.
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I have to agree with the OP. I've tried a few different calibration techniques, followed the instructions carefully, and let them run their course. But after running a fresh battery calibration there is a noticeable improvement that day - I swear I'm not imagining things... The % starts at 100, then SLOWLY makes it's way down to 90 the way I think it should. Normally that first 10% just disappears into thin air...
Hi, I've got my S4 mini week ago and I was really satisfied with battery life, but suddenly yesterday my battery went crazy and right now, I get over 10% battery drain per hour, with just simple use. I didn't perform root or anything else with my phone. Please does anyone know where should be the problem? I don't wanna go to service with my phone in first week that I have it.
I've attached picture of my battery use.
Thank you for your answers..
Judging by the screenshot, the battery drain seems to be quite ok - you have made some phone calls, the screen was on for longer time as it seems.
Try to test the battery drain without using the phone.
To get more detailed information about battery usage, you can try Better Battery Stats (here on XDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 or in Play store) or Wakelock Detector (in Play store) apps.
Marek3_3 said:
Hi, I've got my S4 mini week ago and I was really satisfied with battery life, but suddenly yesterday my battery went crazy and right now, I get over 10% battery drain per hour, with just simple use. I didn't perform root or anything else with my phone. Please does anyone know where should be the problem? I don't wanna go to service with my phone in first week that I have it.
I've attached picture of my battery use.
Thank you for your answers..
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I have the same problem. One time i killed about 20 apps and my stats looks like below
but when i restarted phone baterry problem come back. Now i don't know what i killed, but i try to find it.
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I have 9192 phone. (3G, wifi, gps are disable)
Get an app which offers some better statistics. I would recommend BetterBatteryStats, but since it costs two bucks you can try your luck with WakeLock Detector first (sorry, not allowed to post links). What you want to look into first is, if your phone is going into deepsleep mode when you are not using it. Wakelocks wake your phone from deepsleep and this costs battery life. Install one of the above apps (if it is BBS activate the WatchDog from Settings), reboot your phone and put it away for an hour or do this over night. Then check if there apps which keep your phone awake. Good luck.
P.S.: It seems there is a bug in Android 4+ which causes battery drain on some devices, including Samsung devices. It occurs suddenly and can be stopped by a reboot. Google: android issue 22878
The ticket is from 2011 but was recently marked as obsolete, whatever that means.
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I have the Sprint Galaxy s6, which is fine phone, except the battery is awful. If I unplug it from the charger at 6am, it's down to 12% by 1. Would a new rom help? I haven't rooted the phone yet, but if it'll improve the life of it I'll do it.
Just some input, I had an issue with the voicemail app the other day. After googling it, I found it was an issue on Samsung phones right now. You can look under battery setting to see if it's causing you issues. I'm rooted, so I disabled the app. But it killed my battery overnight, which has never happened to me before.
I use the Renegade rom. It says it patches some deep sleep issues, I'm not 100% sure what that means but it appears to help battery drain when the phone isn't in use. I also use the Unikernel kernel. I'd follow this guide to get rooted and install a recovery (this will trip knox, but if you're thinking about a custom rom you probably don't care). Backup your stock set up, then install the rom I named above (or any rom you like). Then use titanium backup to remove all the Samsung/Sprint bloat. I also use Greenify and apps that take advantage of the S6's AMOLED display (awsms, baconreader, etc.) Here's an AMOLED theme, too (use the Black Mod). I know that's a lot of time and work that shouldn't need done to get good battery, but if you want decent battery that should get it done. That's what I did and my battery is better than stock (usually lasts me all day with just short of 5 hour screen on time). Hope this was helpful!
Thanks for the advice. I've read that Android M is going to help with battery life, so I don't know if I should wait or not. (I probably won't)
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Thanks for the advice. I've read that Android M is going to help with battery life, so I don't know if I should wait or not. (I probably won't)
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in my experience the best thing that you can do to increase battery life is to remove bloat. That is why i use a heavily debloated ROM, and even with that I remove apps that I don't need.
Beyond that, I use Greenify and Wakelock Detector.
Except for heavy use, I typically can run my phone all day without needing a charge. That is all that I really need.
I've got a similar problem.
I factory reset recently, and just let my phone sit with nothing but Google Messenger and Facebook. It still dies from a full battery in ~4-5 hours, without me touching it. Thing is, all the battery stats show less than 5% usage. And there's no crazy crap like games, etc running. I can't figure out what's eating the battery.
I just put the phone in Airplane mode, and enabled Wifi. I'm getting all my emails, fb messages, gmail, google voice, so on. Battery only went down 30% in 28 hours. I turned off airplane mode (it's not connected to Sprint at the moment, I took it off the account), and I have an Airave...battery dropped 15% in about 30 minutes. Went back to airplane mode with Wifi on, and back to a really slow drain.
Right now, I'm planning on packing up my phone tomorrow and sending it to Samsung for a battery replacement. Because my standard 2A-5V can charge this phone from 10% to 100% in an hour...which isn't right.
I've been having this problem for a while and I thought everyone with the G3 had the same problem until last night I was doing a little research and figured out that most people get 1 or 2 % drop on their battery over night whereas I get, from close to a full charge, 100% battery loss. It's frustrating me now because I want to set an alarm for the morning and it wont stay on to go off. And according to my battery usage I get barely 3 hours on a full charge. on my girlfriends G3 the line for her graph goes almost straight across off the page.
Also; I'm using two batteries for this phone and a battery charger that I got when thIs first started happening. The second battery for my phone is a 4,500 mAh that I swap with the default 3,000 mAh when the battery dies so I don't have to constantly charge my phone. And even on the 4,500 mAh I still get about the same usage, around 3 hours and 20 minutes.
Is there a fix to this ? I'm on verizon.
Any help or comments are appreciated. Thank you !
( I was going to link a photo from tinypic but apparently I can't do that until 10 posts lol )
I've had the same problem. For me, change the kernel solved the battery drain. Now I get 6/7 hours sot.
How do I change the kernel?
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How do I change the kernel?
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you need:
1. root your device
2. install a custom recovery (TWRP)
3. Flash compatible kernel with your device.
In "g3 general" section you will find guides to help you
Do you have root ? I would suggest you try installing BetterBatteryStats to see what's draining your battery. Search here on xda and you will find the free download link. Post the results here so we can help.
I'm about to chuck my phone out the window.
My problem: My battery life on my HTC-10 is almost nothing. On regular non battery saver or extreme saver mode my phone will go from 100% charge to zero in less than an hour. A lot of time it will automatically shut off at anywhere between the 75%-50% battery life level. When I do have it on battery saver mode and/or extreme saver mode it prolongs it but only by a couple hours.
What I know: Up to date on most recent operating system (Nougat I believe). I'm almost 100% certain it is not the apps causing the problems because by and large I have the same apps I did when my phone was working fine. I even did a factory reset to see if that would work (obviously it did not)
Is there someone out there who has dealt with this and was able to fix it? While I appreciate any and all help please keep in mind that I am not the most savvy of a person when it comes to phone technology.
Thanks in advance
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I'm about to chuck my phone out the window.
My problem: My battery life on my HTC-10 is almost nothing. On regular non battery saver or extreme saver mode my phone will go from 100% charge to zero in less than an hour. A lot of time it will automatically shut off at anywhere between the 75%-50% battery life level. When I do have it on battery saver mode and/or extreme saver mode it prolongs it but only by a couple hours.
What I know: Up to date on most recent operating system (Nougat I believe). I'm almost 100% certain it is not the apps causing the problems because by and large I have the same apps I did when my phone was working fine. I even did a factory reset to see if that would work (obviously it did not)
Is there someone out there who has dealt with this and was able to fix it? While I appreciate any and all help please keep in mind that I am not the most savvy of a person when it comes to phone technology.
Thanks in advance
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There is another post about this on here. Sorry can link at he moment. But seems like the batteries are starting to fail on these phones. Only solution is a new battery it seems. Mine is similar. Always connected to a charger of some sort now. Not sure if I want to do the battery or just upgrade.
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