I used to flash a lot of custom and stock roms on this phone since I got it. Recently my phone's battery calibration malfunctioned. My battery indicator stays at 78% at all times. I tried flashing stock firmwares, regional firmwares, custom roms, but the problem was never solved. Anyways, now recently my phone is heating up like crazy. 50 degrees at almost all times. What should I do? Is it a hardware fault or are all alioths like this? Also, is there any solution without sending it for warranty claim?
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Hey guys I'm having a little bit of a crisis here. I installed Cyanogen on my HTC Evo a few days ago and have been loving it due to increased performance and battery life. Today, I tried to charge my phone and I get zilch. I've tried different cable and different chargers, even tested them with a multimeter to find they are working properly. So far I've read cyanogen can cause this with the Evos, my problem is custom rom voided the warranty on my not-even-month-old/never-dropped-phone and is currently at a 1% charge with no way to charge the phone to restore my stock ROM. Does anyone know if there are any solutions to this problem or know of a way to revert stock ROM so I don't get raped by Sprint for wanting a a more efficient ROM.
P.S. Phone does boot up
satellitedog said:
Hey guys I'm having a little bit of a crisis here. I installed Cyanogen on my HTC Evo a few days ago and have been loving it due to increased performance and battery life. Today, I tried to charge my phone and I get zilch. I've tried different cable and different chargers, even tested them with a multimeter to find they are working properly. So far I've read cyanogen can cause this with the Evos, my problem is custom rom voided the warranty on my not-even-month-old/never-dropped-phone and is currently at a 1% charge with no way to charge the phone to restore my stock ROM. Does anyone know if there are any solutions to this problem or know of a way to revert stock ROM so I don't get raped by Sprint for wanting a a more efficient ROM.
P.S. Phone does boot up
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Try charging it with the phone turned off
tried it still nothing : (
I don't think I've ever heard of one not charging while it's off, could be an issue with the port on the phone. You could try charging from recovery and seeing if that works.
My last ditch effort, if you have the necessary SD adapter and reader, would be:
Grab a stock ROM in PC36IMG format from this thread
Put it on the SD card (make sure it's named PC36IMG.zip and you put it on the root of the card)
Get another battery or a standalone battery charger, just something to get you powered up just long enough to flash - if it helps, the Touch Pro 2 uses the same battery
Start up the bootloader (turn on the phone with Vol Down+Power) and let it apply the PC36IMG
Take it back to Sprint and get it fixed!
satellitedog said:
Hey guys I'm having a little bit of a crisis here. I installed Cyanogen on my HTC Evo a few days ago and have been loving it due to increased performance and battery life. Today, I tried to charge my phone and I get zilch. I've tried different cable and different chargers, even tested them with a multimeter to find they are working properly. So far I've read cyanogen can cause this with the Evos, my problem is custom rom voided the warranty on my not-even-month-old/never-dropped-phone and is currently at a 1% charge with no way to charge the phone to restore my stock ROM. Does anyone know if there are any solutions to this problem or know of a way to revert stock ROM so I don't get raped by Sprint for wanting a a more efficient ROM.
P.S. Phone does boot up
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The charging issue was a kernal problem that was long ago fixed. I doubt the cyanogenmod rom has anything to do with your issue. When the was a problem the phone would charge when turned off, since yours doesn't I would venture to guess your problem lies else where.
Yeah, I'm defaulting to a hardware issue to now that the phone will not charge, or boot up even though we charged the battery externally. Also the phone vibrates indefinitely if I try to boot pressing down on the volume and power
Just an idea, if you have access... charge the battery thru something else (another Evo or phone that uses that battery, or a dock)... then do what you gotta do to get back to stock...
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I know that there have been many threads on the battery drain issue but i wanted to see if we can get to the bottom of the problem. I have emailed SE support but they fob me off with the usual patronising answers.
Anyway I have an Arc, and i had flashed the firmware to 2.3.2 (3.0.A.2.181), and rooted it. Battery Life on this was fine, 1.5 to 2 days.
I have since flashed 2.3.3 (4.0.A.2.368), 2.3.4 (4.0.2.A.0.42) and 2.3.4 (4.0.2.A.0.58) With all of these firmwares my battery life is terrible, not lasting more than 12 hours, even if i put the phone in airplane mode during sleep. Using Battery Monitor, i see that with nothing running the phone is using at least 70mA. So obviously i tried to reflash back to 2.3.2, However doing so brought up the 0% issue. So i reluctantly went back to 2.3.4. I have also tried reflashing the baseband to 36, following http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1382657. However no change to the rubbish battery life. I have used things like autostart to stop apps from automacally starting, turned off bravia engine, auto network search, turn down brightness and everything, but still the phone uses up 70mA. So what is using up all this power? Do i have a faulty phone and should take it to the a service centre to get it replaced? Or will a replacement phone with 2.3.4 still have the same problem? Does anyone know which of the "essential" running services is using up al this power? the phone is rooted using zergrush, but the bootloader is locked.
This battery issue is really making me think twice about gettin another Sony phone, which is a shame as i have had one for the last 7 or eight years now...
Many thanks
Bolo
Is this battery behaviour normal on the later firmwares? Have I posted this in the wrong forum? Just want to know what my options are to try to fix this battery prob. My wife's sgs2 uses around 7mA during airplane mode! So the battery drain is really rubbish on the Arc!!!:-(
got the same problem, tried all the tips found in this forum, even doing battery calibration didn't help.. not sure if I'm doing something wrong.
bolochan said:
Hi All
I know that there have been many threads on the battery drain issue but i wanted to see if we can get to the bottom of the problem. I have emailed SE support but they fob me off with the usual patronising answers.
Anyway I have an Arc, and i had flashed the firmware to 2.3.2 (3.0.A.2.181), and rooted it. Battery Life on this was fine, 1.5 to 2 days.
I have since flashed 2.3.3 (4.0.A.2.368), 2.3.4 (4.0.2.A.0.42) and 2.3.4 (4.0.2.A.0.58) With all of these firmwares my battery life is terrible, not lasting more than 12 hours, even if i put the phone in airplane mode during sleep. Using Battery Monitor, i see that with nothing running the phone is using at least 70mA. So obviously i tried to reflash back to 2.3.2, However doing so brought up the 0% issue. So i reluctantly went back to 2.3.4. I have also tried reflashing the baseband to 36, following http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1382657. However no change to the rubbish battery life. I have used things like autostart to stop apps from automacally starting, turned off bravia engine, auto network search, turn down brightness and everything, but still the phone uses up 70mA. So what is using up all this power? Do i have a faulty phone and should take it to the a service centre to get it replaced? Or will a replacement phone with 2.3.4 still have the same problem? Does anyone know which of the "essential" running services is using up al this power? the phone is rooted using zergrush, but the bootloader is locked.
This battery issue is really making me think twice about gettin another Sony phone, which is a shame as i have had one for the last 7 or eight years now...
Many thanks
Bolo
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Mate try this http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/mugen-sony-ericsson-xperia-arc-s-arc-extended-battery-1700mah-p30226.htm
i think that somethings wrong with ur phone. .
try to contact SE Service Centre, because i had no problem like this when using Arc even with it Overclocked. .
Have u tried this?: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312398
E4GT EL29.
it does this on both ICS and GB roms. Any Kernal, Modem or Recovery..
Im trying to delete the custom binary count so I can try and swap the phone out. Unless anyone here has a fix?
Ive tried everything. Cleaned the usb port, wiped battery stats, installed different roms, kernals and modems. Removed battery for half hour, unplugged.
None of the above worked.
i would start with a new charger
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I doubt a new charger will help. Ive got the same problem. went to ics 4.0.3and started getting the voltage too high. Battery drained fast and computer wont recognize it to odin back to stock. tried differant drivers differant cords differant usb ports restarted both devices. i flashed back to GBand no voltage message but the charge indicator light stays on and the battey still drains. And my computer still wont recognize it. Anyone know a way to use rogue recovery to flash back to stock so i can take it to sprint
Its the charger..anything higher than 1A is a no go
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Its not the charger
I had that problem on CM9 A2 and AOKP 32 and 34 but not on 35.
But in my case was temporary when problem suddenly goes away on both cases went back as fast as possible to stock.
Haven't seen that problem again, I try to sitick only with ICS TW leaks or stock for now until source is out.
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E4GT EL29.
it does this on both ICS and GB roms. Any Kernal, Modem or Recovery..
Im trying to delete the custom binary count so I can try and swap the phone out. Unless anyone here has a fix?
Ive tried everything. Cleaned the usb port, wiped battery stats, installed different roms, kernals and modems. Removed battery for half hour, unplugged.
None of the above worked.
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sorry im still kinda confused by your post. it says .....bricked(?) voltage....... and u seem to be able to use 2 roms at minimum...ics and gb, correct? I'm just trying to understand, that's all. what will/wont your phone do? and just for ****z and giggles take your battery out set it on something flat like dinner table, desk, counter and try to spin it. if it starts freely spinning then ur battery is bad or damaged (would spin from battery swelling and not being flat anymore) and or just try a new or used known good battery. i know it doesn't seem but this could very well be a battery issue. couldn't hurt
feelingnerdi said:
E4GT EL29.
it does this on both ICS and GB roms. Any Kernal, Modem or Recovery..
Im trying to delete the custom binary count so I can try and swap the phone out. Unless anyone here has a fix?
Ive tried everything. Cleaned the usb port, wiped battery stats, installed different roms, kernals and modems. Removed battery for half hour, unplugged.
None of the above worked.
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Had this same issue took the phone to the samsung service center here in Pattaya Thailand where i live and they said it is a known fault had the part a charging module in stock fixed at no charge in 15 Mins been fine ever since
athaiguy said:
Had this same issue took the phone to the samsung service center here in Pattaya Thailand where i live and they said it is a known fault had the part a charging module in stock fixed at no charge in 15 Mins been fine ever since
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athaiguy...
Would you please give more details about your experience with this issue?
Including all that the Sprint shop said and did.
Thank you,
John
Hi Im running stockorama on my wifes phone, i have confirmed no running apps, she only has three installed after flashing and she loses roughly 7-10% battery life every 45 minutes while doing absolutely nothing and even more when she is actively using the phone. I have tried a different rom, clean flashed stockorama again, and installed all kinds of battery/memory apps to try and help. So far nothing has worked. I currently have her back on Stckorama and the battery drain is god awful. Any ideas? It shows that screen life and android OS are usually what is draining the most.
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Hi Im running stockorama on my wifes phone, i have confirmed no running apps, she only has three installed after flashing and she loses roughly 7-10% battery life every 45 minutes while doing absolutely nothing and even more when she is actively using the phone. I have tried a different rom, clean flashed stockorama again, and installed all kinds of battery/memory apps to try and help. So far nothing has worked. I currently have her back on Stckorama and the battery drain is god awful. Any ideas? It shows that screen life and android OS are usually what is draining the most.
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Since you have tried many roms and the problem persists on all of them, it sounds like your problem is hardware related. If you have another S3, try swapping batteries and see if that helps. If not, flash stock rom and take it in for a warranty replacement.
Hi,
I've searched through various threads here and in the development/ROM forums but need some advice and didn't find advice for my specific scenario.
From Jan - Sept this year I was rooted but running the stock 4.1 Android (Rogers), I tried CM10 and a few other custom ROM's but eventually went back to stock carrier TW, with the only root change being the 4.2 Camera (for Photosphere) being installed (via CMW). During that time my device ran pretty ok in terms of battery life.
Then in Sept I started getting serious battery drain issues. I've got a few extra batteries and an external battery charger so I ended up swaping in and out charged batteries twice or three times a day.
So I decided to re-enter the root world and have since tried a variety of ROM's to see if the battery issues might be fixed. Installed TWN recovery rather than CWM, Tried ROM's such as Task650, CM10 Stable, CM10 Daily, and I still am encountering pretty dismal battery life?
I've tried various battery apps and generally keep screen brightness to a minumum, turn off mobile data, and have wifi/gps/bluetooth/sync off for most the day
I can't imagine it's the battery themselves, 1 is the original that came with my GS3 last year, 1 is official Samsung bought a few months ago and two are Anker ones that worked fine for months.
Can anyone recommend a specific ROM that may have worked for you? I haven't really messed around with custom kernals much, only played with kernals and governors a while back when trying out SETCPU (which I havent used in ages).
Any ideas?
Thank You.
Try the app BetterBatteryStats and see what is using up the battery. After a few hours of having the phone idle, look up the process running on the phone that uses the most wake locks.
Hi,
BBS did not really reveal one glaring thing draining the battery while the screen was off.
Any other ideas?