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Just curious what you are seeing under "Time without a signal %" which you find under Settings - About phone - Battery - Battery Use - Cell standby.
I have a Hero that is rooted and running 2.1 and showing 50%.
Thanks
%5. It was %70 before I did the charge in airplane mode trick.
I did the airplane thing too but mines at 0
33% for me. Did airplane mode trick and haven't had a restart since then.
50% here on rooted 2.1 as well.
What's this battery airplane mode trick?
31% after leaving the phone plugged in an not touching it overnight. Up time 68:49:32 and Awake time 16:41:50 if you need that too, as there's been issues of 100% awake time as well. Of course I've done the airplane trick before, and after a restart, it was back to 100%. Then found out that Meebo was the cause, as it was keeping the phone awake connected to all my IM accounts. Turned it off, and no more 100% awake time, and no more problems.
hoban_eris said:
50% here on rooted 2.1 as well.
What's this battery airplane mode trick?
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So i have found one solution thanks to a thread over at another site....
Seems as if there is some sort of bug with with Cell standby that causes the phone to lose signal which in turns just kills the battery. To verify that your set has the problem, check the Cell standby info in the Battery Use info. If the Time without a signal is higher than 0% (50% seems to be the norm) than you have a problem.
One solution, at the moment, is to follow these steps:
1. Plug in phone charger
2. Put phone in Airplane mode
3. Put phone to sleep for a minute
4. Turn off airplane mode
5. Unplug phone
I can confirm that this works and my Time without a signal is at 0% for over 9 hours now. The battery life is MUCH better and the phone didn't die on me last night while i was sleeping.
theGross1 said:
So i have found one solution thanks to a thread over at another site....
Seems as if there is some sort of bug with with Cell standby that causes the phone to lose signal which in turns just kills the battery. To verify that your set has the problem, check the Cell standby info in the Battery Use info. If the Time without a signal is higher than 0% (50% seems to be the norm) than you have a problem.
One solution, at the moment, is to follow these steps:
1. Plug in phone charger
2. Put phone in Airplane mode
3. Put phone to sleep for a minute
4. Turn off airplane mode
5. Unplug phone
I can confirm that this works and my Time without a signal is at 0% for over 9 hours now. The battery life is MUCH better and the phone didn't die on me last night while i was sleeping.
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I also just figured this out yesterday afternoon for my phone. Was going to post it this morning. Thanks.
hoban_eris said:
50% here on rooted 2.1 as well.
What's this battery airplane mode trick?
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I am at 15% after airplane trick...My awake time is 78 hrs and some change so i think its pretty accurate. let the phone battery drain down and then put into airplane mode. Do a full charge and restart phone...then turn airplane mode off.
50%, geeze... doing airplane trick
After implementing the "airplane mode" method, it says my time without signal is 0%.
my show cell standby 12% android system 58% is this normal
yes another.
Is it necessary to drain the battery and do the "fix" or exactly as the quoted text states? I have tried, and my signal strength is a dot and the standby after is now at 23% from 17% right after, is it going to climb from lack of use or is this not resolved?
Your help is appreciated.
I have found that doing the Airplane mode on, sleep, then Airplane mode off will work without having to connect to a charge. The only thing the charge seems to do is reset the cell standby number. This makes sense since the percentage is based on when the phone was last connected.
What will happen is your percent number will keep going down after the "fix" which is what you want. If having a number really bugs you then add the connct in there.
My time without signal was at 50%. After doing the "no connect" it is showing 13% after 3 hours. it was 28% an hour ago.
Ok thats what I was thinking it was, on a bit of a side note, I no longer go to a lock screen when I press the Power button, i went ahead and set the display to something like 30sec but what just happened?
Works for me
I tried this and it works for me. At most i have 5% and by an hour later its at 0%. Thanks for the tip.
Rooted, running 2.1 rom v0.5.4
23% for me.
I had 50% also but had not really noticed any worse battery life.
Just so it's clear,
the airplane trick needs to be done EVERY boot.
If you restart your phone, you have to do it again. Every time.
Is this bug a result of flashing a specific rom or leak, or is it because of a specific radio?
Hey guys,
I've just started having a problem with my MyTouch 4G in which it won't charge while the phone is switched on. The battery charging symbol displays but the battery % slowly decreases. I have tried using a different battery but no luck. If I go into "battery usage" in settings it says that Wifi & Cellular Idle are the 2 biggest users with 29% each. The strange thing is that these 2 are always using 29% even if I turn Wifi off and put the phone on flight mode. Another user had a similar problem and it turned out to be an app using buttloads of power but I can't identify any on mine doing this. I've done a virus scan. Any ideas?
Thanks
Do you charge by the computer or the power socket
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Both. I've just done a factory reset & installed ICS to see if that made a change. I've got it plugged into the PC at work now and its finally gone up 1% in about 15 minutes. Seems a little slow and I have a feeling it would discharge pretty quickly if I started using it while plugged in. I'll wait and see what happens.
Maybe you should stop checking every 5 seconds and just wait
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same charging issue!
tig56 said:
Hey guys,
I've just started having a problem with my MyTouch 4G in which it won't charge while the phone is switched on. The battery charging symbol displays but the battery % slowly decreases. I have tried using a different battery but no luck. If I go into "battery usage" in settings it says that Wifi & Cellular Idle are the 2 biggest users with 29% each. The strange thing is that these 2 are always using 29% even if I turn Wifi off and put the phone on flight mode. Another user had a similar problem and it turned out to be an app using buttloads of power but I can't identify any on mine doing this. I've done a virus scan. Any ideas?
Thanks
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Where you able to fix it???
I have a Note II from At&T WITHT HE SAME ISSUE!!! :/
help!!!
Are you guys seeing a 1% drop a minute when you are using your phone?
I'm experiencing sudden drain after the update as well and I've tried everything from freezing VZ location to factory restores without any success. It seems the majority of drain is the result of the display.. Here's what I did to try and determine that.
Turned on airplane mode
Lowered display to the lowest setting possible
Set the screen timeout to 10 mins and left the screen on
On average my phone was losing 1% of battery a minute and the same was true when I disabled airplane mode. If the display on the phone was shutoff I was averaging about 1% an hr (in airplane mode) so I'm thinking this is related to the display.
Are you guys seeing a 1% drop a minute when you are using your phone? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Are you guys seeing a 1% drop a minute when you are using your phone?
I'm experiencing sudden drain after the update as well and I've tried everything from freezing VZ location to factory restores without any success. It seems the majority of drain is the result of the display.. Here's what I did to try and determine that.
Turned on airplane mode
Lowered display to the lowest setting possible
Set the screen timeout to 10 mins and left the screen on
On average my phone was losing 1% of battery a minute and the same was true when I disabled airplane mode. If the display on the phone was shutoff I was averaging about 1% an hr (in airplane mode) so I'm thinking this is related to the display.
Are you guys seeing a 1% drop a minute when you are using your phone? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Are you talking streaming, idling, phone calls, data ? guess you need to define use a little bit. Even prior to the OTA , on stock battery while surfing the internet my phone I would drop almost that fast. I bought the extended battery and it was much better. After the OTA, I got an otterbox case and went back to stock battery and it still drains fast while surfing internet, but Idling or sitting in my pocket no drain.
Doing nothing at all. I just changed the screen timeout to 10 mins and left the screen on sitting at my desk, doing nothing. I was in airplane mode so no streaming or anything was taking place... If I turn the screen off I have very minimal drain.
I'm just trying to gauge whether or not having the screen on (doing nothing) and draining 1% a minute is realistic. At this rate my battery would only last a little under 2hrs.. I might believe that if I were streaming movies, phone was on, 3/4G on, etc. but in airplane mode none of that was happening.
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Doing nothing at all. I just changed the screen timeout to 10 mins and left the screen on sitting at my desk, doing nothing. I was in airplane mode so no streaming or anything was taking place... If I turn the screen off I have very minimal drain.
I'm just trying to gauge whether or not having the screen on (doing nothing) and draining 1% a minute is realistic. At this rate my battery would only last a little under 2hrs.. I might believe that if I were streaming movies, phone was on, 3/4G on, etc. but in airplane mode none of that was happening.
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This looks like it's a specific problem to your phone. I've never had that jurastic of a battery drain on my Rezound, even while surfing the web, playing games, listening to music, etc. If I were you I'd go to the VZW store and talk to one of the Verizon reps about it. Hope I helped!
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Doing nothing at all. I just changed the screen timeout to 10 mins and left the screen on sitting at my desk, doing nothing. I was in airplane mode so no streaming or anything was taking place... If I turn the screen off I have very minimal drain.
I'm just trying to gauge whether or not having the screen on (doing nothing) and draining 1% a minute is realistic. At this rate my battery would only last a little under 2hrs.. I might believe that if I were streaming movies, phone was on, 3/4G on, etc. but in airplane mode none of that was happening.
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It is the same for me. My screen destroys the battery. It can idle forever... but it does drop maybe 0.5-0.75%/minute for me.
I'm going to have to get an extended battery sooner than later. Screen destroys my battery. Just texting and a little bit of the XDA app and my battery will go from 95% to 20% in like 4 hours.
My phone currently has had the screen on for an hour total this charge. 15 hours on battery, 43% battery left. Screen used 38% battery having been on for an hour.
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Definitely not a 1% drain per minute here. I was using netflix while riding the train to work(auto brightness) and dropped about 10% in 20 minutes.
The more shocking part is that I plugged in my newtrent external battery charger and still dropped 4% over 30 minutes(obviously much preferrable to 10%+ but when charging you would think you'd break even at least).
Yeah my screen takes up a great % of my battery life too, watching videos on youtube and using Navigation kills my phone pretty fast.
Thanks for the feedback.. New Phone
All,
Thanks for the feedback.. I went by VZW and got a replacement phone which is currently working out much better.
Thanks again!
Before flashing CM9 to my mopho I had only used the stock rom, on Gingerbread my battery would last for 1.5 or 2 days, but since i updated to ICS it dies whitin 10~ hours of idle...
it usually goes from 100 to 70% overnight (6 hours). Recently I purchased Juice Defender Ultimate hoping it would help fix this issue, well... it did help but id didnt solve it, went from 30% overnight battery drain to 15-20% with airplane mode enabled in JDUltimate.. wich is ALOT from what i've read most users are getting (1-2% overnight, am i right?).
I've wiped my battery stats over and over (even tried the market app method) and nothing has changed.
I installed BetterBatteryStats and Watchdog from market, and both of them and the android battery stats show that "suspend" or phone idle are the cause of my battery dying so fast.
If anyone experienced anything similar and knows a way to fix this I would really appreciate it!!
Ive never seen my Photon go overnight with only a literally 1-2 percentage loss.. Not on stock, Cybiks CM7, or on CM9. but it usually only drains maybe 10 or 15 percent on higher end so nothing major. Talking ~8 hours off charger idle with random text or two and led going nuts blinking all night with data/wifi/bluetooth etc off but NOT in airplane mode. Are you on latest CM9 build? My bet is you have a random app screwing with phone keeping it from entering sleep mode or whatever its called. Check the "Awake" time under the battery settings to see if the awake time is allot higher than the "Screen off".
I have the same problem, no matter what kernel, no matter what cm9 build, still draining too much in idle. I know, others don't have such draining. But I give up and I am back on cm7, where everything seems fine.
I noticed that this happens to me as well. Previously, I fixed this by re-calibrating the battery. Now I was suspecting skype, but it is not causing this. I have noticed that having both GPRS/3G enabled and Wi-Fi drains power very quickly (about 4 times faster than having only one of those switched on). I'm using Photon in Europe in GSM network, so not sure is it the same with CDMA.
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Ive never seen my Photon go overnight with only a literally 1-2 percentage loss.. Not on stock, Cybiks CM7, or on CM9. but it usually only drains maybe 10 or 15 percent on higher end so nothing major. Talking ~8 hours off charger idle with random text or two and led going nuts blinking all night with data/wifi/bluetooth etc off but NOT in airplane mode. Are you on latest CM9 build? My bet is you have a random app screwing with phone keeping it from entering sleep mode or whatever its called. Check the "Awake" time under the battery settings to see if the awake time is allot higher than the "Screen off".
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during night, "Awake" seems to be up about 50-60% of the time, a lot more than "screen on"
I´ve read that setting your phone to "never turn screen off" shuts down suspend process and battery actually lasts longer, has anybody tried this??
Are you guys logged into Latitude? I signed out of it yesterday and now after 10 hours on battery, although 6 of it was sleeping, I still had 86% left.
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Are you guys logged into Latitude? I signed out of it yesterday and now after 10 hours on battery, although 6 of it was sleeping, I still had 86% left.
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Thanks, I logged out already will report back after some time
I am not sure, but never logged in latitude myself, so I think, no.
And CPU was perfectly sleeping with turned off screen. But still the same draining. And what I know, it has nothing with gsm.
I as well am having the same problem, dropped from 88% to 72% within 20 minutes.
phone idles killing my battery at 50% any fixes?
try wiping battery stats in recovery with a full charge
My HAM2 is reporting battery level incorrectly. It keeps on going normally till about 35% and then within a few minutes, it drops down to zero and turns off. I have used the battery calibration app to try to reset the battery stats but to no avail, the problem persists. Any help will be appreciated. The ham2 is rooted and TWRP installed.
sagarone said:
My HAM2 is reporting battery level incorrectly. It keeps on going normally till about 35% and then within a few minutes, it drops down to zero and turns off. I have used the battery calibration app to try to reset the battery stats but to no avail, the problem persists. Any help will be appreciated. The ham2 is rooted and TWRP installed.
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While not to the same degree, I notice once I get to about 10%, it's a crap-shoot as to whether I'm going to get another hour or so or 10 minutes. The longer I have this phone, the more I notice it's a buggy mess.
sagarone said:
My HAM2 is reporting battery level incorrectly. It keeps on going normally till about 35% and then within a few minutes, it drops down to zero and turns off. I have used the battery calibration app to try to reset the battery stats but to no avail, the problem persists. Any help will be appreciated. The ham2 is rooted and TWRP installed.
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That is usually a sign of a damaged battery.
Mine is only week old but I've run down under twenty percent and it's drained and dropped consistently. Might contact Huawei since it has two year warranty.
I'll run mine down today and see what I experience.
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27% all seems fine. I'll watch netflix for a while and check again.
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19% all battery stats report the same. Still watching Netflix. Seems you may have either done something to cause report errors or it is indeed a faulty battery. Good luck
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Try recalibrating your battery, if your phone is reporting incorrect charge. The BMS within the battery might need reset.
When your phone is down to "critical level" (before the phone is ready to turn off) reboot into Recovery Mode. Let phone sit and drain until it empties.
Once empty, let sit for 4 hours. This will reset the "low value".
Charge with phone off to 100%, leave phone off. Unplug and let sit off for another 4 hours. Turn phone back on and use as normal, the battery *should* be recalibrated. The reason for waiting is to redefine a "high" and "low" charge state. If current is constantly being supplied or drained, then it will see those values as a "blip" rather than a calibration number.
It isn't always a bad battery, sometimes it's just miscalibrated.
Quick Drain after 15% Is Reached.
volcolm said:
Try recalibrating your battery, if your phone is reporting incorrect charge. The BMS within the battery might need reset.
When your phone is down to "critical level" (before the phone is ready to turn off) reboot into Recovery Mode. Let phone sit and drain until it empties.
Once empty, let sit for 4 hours. This will reset the "low value".
Charge with phone off to 100%, leave phone off. Unplug and let sit off for another 4 hours. Turn phone back on and use as normal, the battery *should* be recalibrated. The reason for waiting is to redefine a "high" and "low" charge state. If current is constantly being supplied or drained, then it will see those values as a "blip" rather than a calibration number.
It isn't always a bad battery, sometimes it's just miscalibrated.
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I have this problem too. When my battery gets down to about 15%, I get a warning that I must plug in my charger immediately. I have to do it within 15 seconds or so or my battery plummets all the way to 0% and shuts down the phone. My phone is not rooted, so I don't think I have a "Recovery Mode". Or do I? Would I use the same procedure and be able recalibrate my battery ? When I restart my phone by regular (unrooted) startup after a 100% charge and 4 hour wait, would I get a Recovery Mode option or not? If not would it still recalibrate the battery?
How much are you guys losing overnight ? I'm draining about 1%/hr in stand-by now (deep sleep) , I remember I used to lose max 2% overnight awhile ago
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How much are you guys losing overnight ? I'm draining about 1%/hr in stand-by now (deep sleep) , I remember I used to lose max 2% overnight awhile ago
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Google made some changes recently in its services that has had a negative effect on battery life. I am sure they will fix it. Lots of people complaining about it on a lot of different devices.
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How much are you guys losing overnight ? I'm draining about 1%/hr in stand-by now (deep sleep) , I remember I used to lose max 2% overnight awhile ago
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I checked last night and I lost 2% over 7 hours. I'm using an L05 so I dunno how much of a difference that makes.
tomlemange said:
I checked last night and I lost 2% over 7 hours. I'm using an L05 so I dunno how much of a difference that makes.
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Yea this was similar to my drain months ago . Eh idk why it's changed . Have had the same setup all this time , with amplify (wakelocks/alarm blocker) and deep sleep when screen off (PowerNap) . I have switched the sim to at&t (previously T-Mobile) .. Though both have a similar signal range at home . Not sure , will try with a t mobile sim again and will compare .
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