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Hi,
I have a GT-I9100, running CM10. This has been working great for weeks (since first CM10 experimental). Some time back I started experiencing problems while charging, and I thought it was a faulty charge port. This problem magically "solved" itself, but now I am experiencing random shutt off, freezes, part of the screen going black before it turns off completely. Some times I get to the boot animation, some times it turns off and works for a while, before shutting off again. Tried a complete wipe/factory reset, to no avail. The battery stats also seems pretty random, going from ~70% to ~10% after turning off and on again.
I was reading here (http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-3152 (I don't own a T-mobile)), and it said this could be caused by a faulty battery. I have taken some photos of the battery here: http://imgur.com/a/FVyK0 ... To me it seems that it could be some visible swelling to the battery, but I don't have anything to compare it with. Any opinions??
And could a "faulty" battery be the cause to these problems (which to me seems to be software related)?
Which kernel are you running?
Slekvak said:
Hi,
I have a GT-I9100, running CM10. This has been working great for weeks (since first CM10 experimental). Some time back I started experiencing problems while charging, and I thought it was a faulty charge port. This problem magically "solved" itself, but now I am experiencing random shutt off, freezes, part of the screen going black before it turns off completely. Some times I get to the boot animation, some times it turns off and works for a while, before shutting off again. Tried a complete wipe/factory reset, to no avail. The battery stats also seems pretty random, going from ~70% to ~10% after turning off and on again.
I was reading here (http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-3152 (I don't own a T-mobile)), and it said this could be caused by a faulty battery. I have taken some photos of the battery here: http://imgur.com/a/FVyK0 ... To me it seems that it could be some visible swelling to the battery, but I don't have anything to compare it with. Any opinions??
And could a "faulty" battery be the cause to these problems (which to me seems to be software related)?
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1. the battery is a little swollen at the middle
2. use a thin a paper to support the battery to ensure proper contact with the gold pins. this might resolve the random shutdown issue
Did you undervolt and/or underclock CPU and/or GPU? If yes, less aggressive values may help.
The crazy battery percentage can be solved by charging your phone to 100%, then clear battery stats and reset your fuel-gauge chip.
Tell me if this helped or not.
przemcio510 said:
Which kernel are you running?
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I installed the latest CM10 build today, 10-20120821-EXPERIMENTAL-i9100-CODEWORKX, kernel 3.0.15-CM-gea1d0d7, baseband I9100XXLQ6. I have however experienced these problems on other CM10 builds, but before I started experience them, I was running CM10 without any problems.. I could downgrade to CM9 and check I guess...
Jokesy said:
1. the battery is a little swollen at the middle
2. use a thin a paper to support the battery to ensure proper contact with the gold pins. this might resolve the random shutdown issue
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1. Is this any danger somehow? I'm trying suggestion nr. 2. Thanks.
Slekvak said:
I installed the latest CM10 build today, 10-20120821-EXPERIMENTAL-i9100-CODEWORKX, kernel 3.0.15-CM-gea1d0d7, baseband I9100XXLQ6. I have however experienced these problems on other CM10 builds, but before I started experience them, I was running CM10 without any problems.. I could downgrade to CM9 and check I guess...
1. Is this any danger somehow? I'm trying suggestion nr. 2. Thanks.
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I don't think it's in any danger, it happens in old Nokia phones. I personally experienced this in my old n95.
It looks like as a result of too much heating, maybe
gb.yolo said:
Did you undervolt and/or underclock CPU and/or GPU? If yes, less aggressive values may help.
The crazy battery percentage can be solved by charging your phone to 100%, then clear battery stats and reset your fuel-gauge chip.
Tell me if this helped or not.
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I have been checking out calibration, but there seems to be some diverging information. Should I charge it 100% while using it, or while off? Should I first drain the battery? And what do you mean by "reset fuel-gauge chip"?
As you can see, these battery stats don't seem right: http://imgur.com/Xnv6W.png
gb.yolo said:
Did you undervolt and/or underclock CPU and/or GPU? If yes, less aggressive values may help.
The crazy battery percentage can be solved by charging your phone to 100%, then clear battery stats and reset your fuel-gauge chip.
Tell me if this helped or not.
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how do you clear battery stats and reset fuel-gauge chip?
I have the same problem
prufessa said:
how do you clear battery stats and reset fuel-gauge chip?
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Wow that's the exact same thing happen to me.
The phone would shuts off by itself at random battery percentage. then I try to turn it back on, sometimes it just shuts right off.
At other time it would continue running with the battery slowly increasing. The graph of battery usage is really similar to yours. It would have those "valley of death" and then comes back alive as a short lived battery.
I am trying the battery reset by draining the battery until the phone really cannot be turned on (even the monitors), take off the battery for 2 minutes, charge it while it's off, unplug as soon as it reaches 100%, charge it till 100% again. I have read other thread saying that the taking out the battery part is at the end of the charging (100%), not at the beginning (0%). So I don't know which one is correct way to reset the battery.
Before update, I did not experience this prob, but only really hot cellphone while charging and fast draining battery even with 2x battery apps. Well, I had like 100+ apps, so it's understandable, but now, I have a very few apps (10+) but it's doing this magic trick to me.
Oh, and I noticed my battery is swollen and bulged at the middle too.
Anyone has an answer if it is a battery problem or just my mind going crazy?
I'm having exactly the same problem while running CM9. However i've noicted that the same thing happens while running stock as well. No overclocking or undervolting here.
My battery is swollen as yours is as well. Could it be a faulty battery?
Looks like it was the battery after all.
The service centre lady told me that my battery was FUBAR. Bought a new one and the problem seems to have disappeared.
She said it happens because of overcharging. Is that true? Thank god the battery was cheap.
It was the battery for sure. Ive been getting amazing battery life ever since I bought the new one. No more unexpected shut downs or any of the problems i was having.
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Glad to hear that's what the problem was
mrcreativity said:
Looks like it was the battery after all.
The service centre lady told me that my battery was FUBAR. Bought a new one and the problem seems to have disappeared.
She said it happens because of overcharging. Is that true? Thank god the battery was cheap.
It was the battery for sure. Ive been getting amazing battery life ever since u bought the new one. No more unexpected shut downs or any of the problems i was having.
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I have a Sprint Galaxy SII (Epic 4G Touch) and have been having the same issues. My battery is also swollen and I have been trying software fixes for a couple of weeks. I ordered a new battery and am glad to find that your very similar problem was solved that way.
Thanks for posting about this!
After upgrading my phone from ICS to JB, I experience a strange phenomena.
The battery life was 75%, and I was calling someone for about 2-3 minutes, then the phone turned off by itself.
The battery was 0%, in just 2-3 minutes!
When I upgraded the OS, I did factory reset. I rooted the phone, froze a lot of bloatwares, but the problem still persisted.
I am beginning to think that my battery is bad or something.
Anybody experienced anything like this?
Any solutions to the problem?
I tried charging the battery from 0% to 100% with power off for several consecutive days, but the problem still persisted.
I need help!
Batteries do eventually die. You can find a good extended battery on ebay for under $10.
Don't quote, reply. If you quote, edit.
andy.tae.koh said:
After upgrading my phone from ICS to JB, I experience a strange phenomena.
The battery life was 75%, and I was calling someone for about 2-3 minutes, then the phone turned off by itself.
The battery was 0%, in just 2-3 minutes!
When I upgraded the OS, I did factory reset. I rooted the phone, froze a lot of bloatwares, but the problem still persisted.
I am beginning to think that my battery is bad or something.
Anybody experienced anything like this?
Any solutions to the problem?
I tried charging the battery from 0% to 100% with power off for several consecutive days, but the problem still persisted.
I need help!
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I experienced that with the revolt job 4.2.2. Out of the no where went down to 0 installed another ROM and wiped my battery stats I think old battery stats mess up the battery performance so I will c how my phone acts then I'll let ya know
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I think it was the battery
After posting the question, I removed the battery to see if physical status of the battery was not the primary cause of the issue.
Well, the battery the"fat". The middle of the battery was bulging for some strange reason. It seemed as if it was left in the direct sun light for a few hours, and I know I did not leave the phone out in the direct sun light, ever!. Well, I ordered a new battery on Friday, and I will have to wait and see if a new battery would solve the problem. I will report back.
andy.tae.koh said:
After posting the question, I removed the battery to see if physical status of the battery was not the primary cause of the issue.
Well, the battery the"fat". The middle of the battery was bulging for some strange reason. It seemed as if it was left in the direct sun light for a few hours, and I know I did not leave the phone out in the direct sun light, ever!. Well, I ordered a new battery on Friday, and I will have to wait and see if a new battery would solve the problem. I will report back.
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My battery is bulging too. It has been just dying even though my phone reads 50 percent of bat life. My mother in laws battery got really fat and compared to a new one I ordered came to a conclusion that battery bulging or fattening is a battery will die soon. What bat u ordered
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I have the stock 2500 ...tmart 5200 and now the ravpower 2750 and I can honestly say the ravpower is the best
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The new battery is working well!
COA4178 said:
My battery is bulging too. It has been just dying even though my phone reads 50 percent of bat life. My mother in laws battery got really fat and compared to a new one I ordered came to a conclusion that battery bulging or fattening is a battery will die soon. What bat u ordered
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I ordered following battery from Amazon.com.
OEM Samsung Standard Battery for Samsung Galaxy Note (AT&T) i717 EB615268VA
Sold by CellPhonesCheap
I ordered on Friday afternoon, and received the item on Monday afternoon. The vendor is located somewhere in NY, and very prompt about sending the item. I only used it for a day, and very satisfied.
im curious did you ever solve this issue? i have the EXACT symptoms. did your replacement battery fix this?
or did wiping battery stats help?
geminihc said:
im curious did you ever solve this issue? i have the EXACT symptoms. did your replacement battery fix this?
or did wiping battery stats help?
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Good idea to replace after about a year anyway.
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captemo said:
Good idea to replace after about a year anyway.
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at least we could replace ours! think of all those new phones that are NOT replaceable at all !
Problem solved..
geminihc said:
im curious did you ever solve this issue? i have the EXACT symptoms. did your replacement battery fix this?
or did wiping battery stats help?
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I had to replace the battery. My wife had the same issue not long after I had the problem. The battery replacement solved the problem for both of us. Wiping out battery stats did not help. I bought a new battery. I recommend ravpower 2750.
Hi xda! So I've been having a problem for a couple of months with my SGSII and i have searched a lot but i haven't found a solution yet.
The problem is that battery behaves normally and has a normal drain rate, but when it reaches 40% more or less it drains massively and drops to 10 % (more or less, could be 11% or 9%. It is not something precise and accurate) and screen immediately starts to flicker, backlight as well, then the signal is lost and phone shuts down. After that i can not turn it on unless i charge it.
I have looked a lot and pretty much all of the forums recommended to buy a new battery. I bought another battery (original) and the problem still continued. I've also tried swapping batteries with a friend, but the problem still happened to me and not to him. Also I have tried a lot of Roms, I've tried going back to stock as well, but still nothing.
Currently I'm running Cyanogenmod 10.1 RC2 because it gives me the best battery life in those 60%.
I leave you an attachment of a screenshot. As you can see battery percent dropped a lot at the end, and i wasn't using it heavily.
Thank you in advance.
It is a hardware issue, I had the same problem (battery would drain below 10% though), sent it to Samsung, Motherboard and Charge Socket got replaced, I don't know which one was causing it because I had other issues like broken home button too.
brpper said:
Hi xda! So I've been having a problem for a couple of months with my SGSII and i have searched a lot but i haven't found a solution yet.
The problem is that battery behaves normally and has a normal drain rate, but when it reaches 40% more or less it drains massively and drops to 10 % (more or less, could be 11% or 9%. It is not something precise and accurate) and screen immediately starts to flicker, backlight as well, then the signal is lost and phone shuts down. After that i can not turn it on unless i charge it.
I have looked a lot and pretty much all of the forums recommended to buy a new battery. I bought another battery (original) and the problem still continued. I've also tried swapping batteries with a friend, but the problem still happened to me and not to him. Also I have tried a lot of Roms, I've tried going back to stock as well, but still nothing.
Currently I'm running Cyanogenmod 10.1 RC2 because it gives me the best battery life in those 60%.
I leave you an attachment of a screenshot. As you can see battery percent dropped a lot at the end, and i wasn't using it heavily.
Thank you in advance.
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May be there would be some hardware related problem. But why dont you give a try to to a wakelock detector app like betterbattery stats or wakelock detector? Atleast you will know which app is eating your battery or is it a hardware related problem.
Nexcore said:
It is a hardware issue, I had the same problem (battery would drain below 10% though), sent it to Samsung, Motherboard and Charge Socket got replaced, I don't know which one was causing it because I had other issues like broken home button too.
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Thank you for answering. Unfortunately I have already rooted my device hence voiding my warranty. Maybe i could have it fixed by some technician.
singhsidhartha said:
May be there would be some hardware related problem. But why dont you give a try to to a wakelock detector app like betterbattery stats or wakelock detector? Atleast you will know which app is eating your battery or is it a hardware related problem.
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I have tried a lot of battery related apps. BBS is one if them. I haven't seen anything unsual. In fact I've also tried apps like greenify. However battery life in the first 60% of battery is actually good. After 40% comes the problem.
Send it to samsung
Install triangle away and reset counter then flash stock jb rom from your country & provider
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I have got a strange problem.
My Samsung S5830i Galaxy Ace has a battery drain of 50% per night without usage, WLAN off.
The device is rooted, and I've had an battery issue when using Link2sd with a ext2 partition (bcm.sdhc.3 kept the phone awake all time). I fixed it using ext3. This was six month ago, no problems after that.
Since last week, I got this huge battery drain. BetterBatteryStats tells me the phone is sleeping most of the time, no suspicious processes.
I tried with a battery from a friend, no result.
I factory-reset my phone, no result.
I used a ClockworkMod recovery from the time before link2sd, no result.
The battery is still draining like hell.
What else could I do instead of throwing the phone away? Please help!
the95d said:
I have got a strange problem.
My Samsung S5830i Galaxy Ace has a battery drain of 50% per night without usage, WLAN off.
The device is rooted, and I've had an battery issue when using Link2sd with a ext2 partition (bcm.sdhc.3 kept the phone awake all time). I fixed it using ext3. This was six month ago, no problems after that.
Since last week, I got this huge battery drain. BetterBatteryStats tells me the phone is sleeping most of the time, no suspicious processes.
I tried with a battery from a friend, no result.
I factory-reset my phone, no result.
I used a ClockworkMod recovery from the time before link2sd, no result.
The battery is still draining like hell.
What else could I do instead of throwing the phone away? Please help!
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It most probably will be your battery problem. How old is your battery? I know you said you tried your friend's battery, but try again with another battery for Ace. Also try using another rom. Do post the results. Hope I Helped
mahithm said:
It most probably will be your battery problem. How old is your battery? I know you said you tried your friend's battery, but try again with another battery for Ace. Also try using another rom. Do post the results. Hope I Helped
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His Battery is not very old. And I think it would be strange it is really a battery problem, because it happens very sudden and the behaviour of the two batteries is the same.
The phone is 1,5 year old. I think about unrooting and try to make use of the guarantee or to get another rom and flash.
But if it would be a software problem, at least the recovery should overwritten the faulty settings, or not?
the95d said:
His Battery is not very old. And I think it would be strange it is really a battery problem, because it happens very sudden and the behaviour of the two batteries is the same.
The phone is 1,5 year old. I think about unrooting and try to make use of the guarantee or to get another rom and flash.
But if it would be a software problem, at least the recovery should overwritten the faulty settings, or not?
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Once your battery gets as low as 15 to 20%, go to CWM> Advanced> Wipe Battery Stats and then charge for 3 hours without a break. See if there is any change. Follow this beautiful guide by @Venomous Viper 119 on improving the battery backup and performance of ace. Here is the link,
Improve battery life & performance of Ace
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mahithm said:
Once your battery gets as low as 15 to 20%, go to CWM> Advanced> Wipe Battery Stats and then charge for 3 hours without a break. See if there is any change. Follow this beautiful guide by @Venomous Viper 119 on improving the battery backup and performance of ace. Here is the link,
Improve battery life & performance of Ace
Hope I Helped
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Well, thanks for the link. My newest information is: the battery is draining even when the phone is off. I think, either the NSA installed their new feature, or it is relly a hardware defect
the95d said:
Well, thanks for the link. My newest information is: the battery is draining even when the phone is off. I think, either the NSA installed their new feature, or it is relly a hardware defect
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okay whatever he said was right. my suggestion is get a new battery ,change the rom and stop charging it too much.now if you want detailed solution ineed you to give me all the info about your phone.and also i want to know if your battery has swelled or has damages. i can help you because i have an old galaxy ace which has faced 99 percent problems in this world.
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the95d said:
either the NSA installed their new feature
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Hi, got the C5 ultra a couple of days back. I feel that my phone slows down and lags when the battery is low? Its almost unusable due to the lag in the app drawer and recents panel. Im not sure if this happens everytime the phone is low on battery. Is this is problem for u as well and is there any fix?
Thanks
yasirrfc said:
Hi, got the C5 ultra a couple of days back. I feel that my phone slows down and lags when the battery is low? Its almost unusable due to the lag in the app drawer and recents panel. Im not sure if this happens everytime the phone is low on battery. Is this is problem for u as well and is there any fix?
Thanks
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yes. it happens to me too.. also my battery takes forever to charge.. 15 mins = 2 % . but when it is turned off, it seems like any other phone.. contacted sony and all they said was to try the software repair, which i am tempted to do.. my youtube causes the whole phone to crash too every now and then. Have you encountered the same?
androFRUST said:
yes. it happens to me too.. also my battery takes forever to charge.. 15 mins = 2 % . but when it is turned off, it seems like any other phone.. contacted sony and all they said was to try the software repair, which i am tempted to do.. my youtube causes the whole phone to crash too every now and then. Have you encountered the same?
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It does charge slow. I guess it charged from 14 to 78% in about 2.5 hours. My lg g flex charge in like 2 or 2.5 hours max and it had a 3500 mah battery. If we use a high amphere charger, it might mess with the phone's battery life. Other than the lag on low battery, I haven't had much issues aside from when the phone crashed 2 or 3 times when watching an hd video and then I had to manually switch it off and turn it back on.
yasirrfc said:
It does charge slow. I guess it charged from 14 to 78% in about 2.5 hours. My lg g flex charge in like 2 or 2.5 hours max and it had a 3500 mah battery. If we use a high amphere charger, it might mess with the phone's battery life. Other than the lag on low battery, I haven't had much issues aside from when the phone crashed 2 or 3 times when watching an hd video and then I had to manually switch it off and turn it back on.
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Just did the sony repair as advised from sony support. The battery seems to be charging faster but my lg g4 still chargers faster as well. Hopefully some kinks were fixed as well, though i reserve my optimism since the software is basically the same.
androFRUST said:
Just did the sony repair as advised from sony support. The battery seems to be charging faster but my lg g4 still chargers faster as well. Hopefully some kinks were fixed as well, though i reserve my optimism since the software is basically the same.
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After repairing, does your phone still slow down when the battery is low or has that been fixed as well? And did the repair delete all your phone's data?
yasirrfc said:
After repairing, does your phone still slow down when the battery is low or has that been fixed as well? And did the repair delete all your phone's data?
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Hi, used my phone for 2 days without charged. I decided to turn it off while charging since i noticed it was still faster to 100%. With regards to performance, I did not notice any considerable lag or heating, though the camera still had some lag and stuttering. The repair is basically a wipe of everything and reinstall. Sony said it was different to a factory reset as it like a "clean" wipe. Not sure what they meant there but so far im happier with the phone now. Still hoping that Sony releases a new update to address the slight stuttering, unsatisfying battery charging speeds and the laggy camera interface.
androFRUST said:
Hi, used my phone for 2 days without charged. I decided to turn it off while charging since i noticed it was still faster to 100%. With regards to performance, I did not notice any considerable lag or heating, though the camera still had some lag and stuttering. The repair is basically a wipe of everything and reinstall. Sony said it was different to a factory reset as it like a "clean" wipe. Not sure what they meant there but so far im happier with the phone now. Still hoping that Sony releases a new update to address the slight stuttering, unsatisfying battery charging speeds and the laggy camera interface.
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Hi ive also repaired my phone using PC companion and restored my data and backup. I definitely feel I feel less internal storage space available now about 2gb is missing. do u have any idea why this happened? In storage, it says android system has 8.8GB and I feel previously this was not so much.
yasirrfc said:
Hi ive also repaired my phone using PC companion and restored my data and backup. I definitely feel I feel less internal storage space available now about 2gb is missing. do u have any idea why this happened? In storage, it says android system has 8.8GB and I feel previously this was not so much.
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im not too sure about yours, but mine is showing 4.95gb of Android system. try transferring some of your system apps to the external sd card if u have one.