Battery meter sticking? - Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Recently I've had a problem where my battery meter doesnt go down till I reboot. Sometimes it will, and then it'll drop like 15% or so. I've had 100% for like thirty minutes now and its kinda scaring me.
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Edit: it just dropped to 97%... No 99 or 98
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I had the same problem on Das Bamf....couldn't figure it out. I'm on Perfect Storm now and have no problem with it reading correctly now. I like Das Bamf but can't use it until that is working.

bretnj said:
I had the same problem on Das Bamf....couldn't figure it out. I'm on Perfect Storm now and have no problem with it reading correctly now. I like Das Bamf but can't use it until that is working.
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I'm not so sure its a problem with the Rom. It didn't start happening till I wiped my battery stats a couple of times.
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i been having the same problem but only on my extended battery. if i put my stock one in it reads it just fine and it drops down. when i put my extended battery in it gets stuck forever and if i reboot the phone i lose like 30 percent later on in the day. i did all the methods i can find.
bump charge the phone wipe status let it discharge completely recharge it full and still nothing. i dont worry about my phone dying because its the extended battery but its just more annoying than anything

peddigree said:
i been having the same problem but only on my extended battery. if i put my stock one in it reads it just fine and it drops down. when i put my extended battery in it gets stuck forever and if i reboot the phone i lose like 30 percent later on in the day. i did all the methods i can find.
bump charge the phone wipe status let it discharge completely recharge it full and still nothing. i dont worry about my phone dying because its the extended battery but its just more annoying than anything
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Are you also on Bamf?
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its not a rom issue for me I believe because I tried chingy rom also and had the same problems. I am now trying virus and will see. But as mention the stock battery works just fine for some reason.
are you using stock or extended battery

peddigree said:
its not a rom issue for me I believe because I tried chingy rom also and had the same problems. I am now trying virus and will see. But as mention the stock battery works just fine for some reason.
are you using stock or extended battery
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Stock...that's partly why I'm confused. I think its wiping battery stats
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Nikolai2.1 said:
Stock...that's partly why I'm confused. I think its wiping battery stats
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Same thing is happening to me right now. I wiped battery stats two times last night and right now its sticking at 98%
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royolpunk said:
Same thing is happening to me right now. I wiped battery stats two times last night and right now its sticking at 98%
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I'm thinking its the battery wipes for sure
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Game the extended battery as well, started napping when flashing p. Storm v1.2
-Monky_1

Well I am having the same problem, except I am on the stock rom, and have never wiped my battery data. I am however rooted, and removed some of the verizon bloat (e.g. blockbuster, ect). Stock battery as well. The indicator and widgets will show the correct percentage on boot, but will not update after that.
I noticed it last night when I was trying different battery widgets. I have tried removing them, rebooting, nothing seems to help.
***UPDATE***
I think I fixed my problem, i'm not sure if they are all related, but here is what I found. I noticed I was getting a force close by SuperUser. So I force stopped it and cleared its data. Did a reboot and now all seems well. No force closed and the indicator appears to be updating.

I'm using battery left widget its fixing my battery metter
-Monky_1

Ive been having this with every rom, well virus roms for sure, I just drain the battery all the way down until it dies, then after i fully charge it, it refreshes... goodluck

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Crazy Battery Drain WTF!

Ok, so have voodoo odex uvjl4 froyo rom installed and my battery seems to be draining at crazy speeds. I charged the battery to a 100% then with in 3 hours it dropped to 18% and that's with only like 30 mins of use. Tried Reconditioning the battery and clearing the battery cache but its still draining hella fast. Wtf is going on. This can't be normal. No wifi or GPS on.and only a few Widgets used. Also screen brightness is on the lowest setting. Any ideas? Thanks a million!
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Try stopping some services in the settings/applications/running services. Or if you titanium backup pro, freeze some of the apps that are running in the background.
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hitman818 said:
Try stopping some services in the settings/applications/running services. Or if you titanium backup pro, freeze some of the apps that are running in the background.
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Checked that! Nothing extra is really running. Maybe its my voodoo or rom. At this rate I'm going to have to charge it 4 or 5 times a day! Seems to be dropping about 2% every few mins. Crazy :'(
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darkside79 said:
Checked that! Nothing extra is really running. Maybe its my voodoo or rom. At this rate I'm going to have to charge it 4 or 5 times a day! Seems to be dropping about 2% every few mins. Crazy :'(
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Odin stock
Reflash
If problem is there, your choosing the wrong rom.
Try odining back to stock. That's battery usage I've never seen before.
vinnydakid said:
Try odining back to stock. That's battery usage I've never seen before.
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Man what a pain. Guess I will just charge it 5 times a day. Not going to flash back to stock.to much of a pain.maybe my battery is bad. Going on 5 months old and many roms.
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Is the phone getting very hot? Are you experiencing glitches, crashiness or freezes?
Battery drain that severe sounds like a hardware issue.
how long have you been using that rom?
synaesthetic said:
Is the phone getting very hot? Are you experiencing glitches, crashiness or freezes?
Battery drain that severe sounds like a hardware issue.
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Phone gets pretty hot but only if I use it while its charging. And seems to take like 2 or more hours for the phone to completely charge.
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how long have you been using that rom?
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Like 6 days or so!
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The phone would be getting very hot with that kind of battery drain.
Maybe your battery is fried?
I'd try buying a cheap external (stand-alone) charger and putting a full charge into with that, then immediately wipe your stats upon reboot and see if it goes away.
I suspect phones can't correctly charge your battery full if the stats are seriously hosed to begin with, and even when you wipe the file it seems to assume the battery is 100% full to begin with (which means if it's super low, recharge still won't work) so I wonder if you might never actually be getting a full charge. But that's just wild-ass speculation on my part.
I'm experiencing this exact same thing. To the OP..are you still have the same issue or were you able to resolve it?

Battery problem?

I am using bionix v and people are reporting 20+ hours of battery life using the battery left widget.. and when using my battety left widget (nearly fully calibrated) it tells me I have 9 hours left.. what's the deal? Is this a battery issue, and could I need a replacement. I have had battery issues with nearly all of my roms in the past. I guess it could be a conditioning issue. Please help
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Something is probably running in your background. Download watch dog task manager and see wwhat is running on your backgrounnd.
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It says that there is nothing wrong. What are the normal voltages of my battery, like what should they be?
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I just flashed mine on Sunday and charged it overnight. I ended up getting just under 42 hours of life out of it without doing to battery recondition.
twoofakind said:
I just flashed mine on Sunday and charged it overnight. I ended up getting just under 42 hours of life out of it without doing to battery recondition.
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How? What do you do to achieve that?
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treyvaporizer said:
How? What do you do to achieve that?
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By using your phone to just look at the wallpaper.
Lol,
How is the battery life on the real froyo that was released a few weeks ago?
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treyvaporizer said:
How? What do you do to achieve that?
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Not possible by someone who actually uses there phone. I never thought I was a heavy user but seeing replies like above I have to be past the definition of heavy user. With my extended battery I could get 2.5 days on a single charge.
Im also having battery drain with bionix newest rom. Nothings changed in my day-day usage. probably flash another modem or something.
I think I might switch to stock froyo if things don't get better. Or just order a new battery. Because it just drops like a rock. And im using watchdog but it doesn't really help that much. Or could someone with experience with battery drain guide me on how to stop it from happening?
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I am using bionix v and people are reporting 20+ hours of battery life using the battery left widget.. and when using my battety left widget (nearly fully calibrated) it tells me I have 9 hours left.. what's the deal? Is this a battery issue, and could I need a replacement. I have had battery issues with nearly all of my roms in the past. I guess it could be a conditioning issue. Please help
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Something tells me you have a bad battery if you've always had battery issues. Did you get your phone from T-Mobile? If so call them and tell them your battery is bad--they should send you a new one for free.
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I flashed on saturday and started having issues with the battery on monday. On tuesday my battery drained in less than 5 HOURS! I reconditioned the battery and added juice defender @ 5 this morning. I just plugged in my charger about 20 minutes ago. Went down to 5%.
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Kubernetes said:
Something tells me you have a bad battery if you've always had battery issues. Did you get your phone from T-Mobile? If so call them and tell them your battery is bad--they should send you a new one for free.
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Yes I got it from t-mobile but I have not used stock long enough to see whether it was just a rom issue. I have only flashed team whiskeys roms and they seem to kill my battery. Nero v3 was the best but still wasn't great. I leave around 6:30 in the morning and maybe use the phone to get on xda, engadget, facebook, etc for about 1 hour, But my battery drops like a rock when I do this. And ever since bionix v it has only gotten worse. From that one hr of usage it drops 40 percent. Is hsdpa that big of a battery-killer? Because on wifi it seems to do a little better. Idk if this is just a network issue or what? Like right now it dropped 2 percent just from typing this up. brightness is less than half and everything is set to manually refresh. Wth?
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Cbzeej said:
I flashed on saturday and started having issues with the battery on monday. On tuesday my battery drained in less than 5 HOURS! I reconditioned the battery and added juice defender @ 5 this morning. I just plugged in my charger about 20 minutes ago. Went down to 5%.
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So you are having issues as well?
Everything else seems to be fine. The consistency of the battery is weird..
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Had terrible battery life as well with bionix v. Double checked to see if anything was running in the background and reconditioned my battery. Even then I was still getting atrocious battery life. Oh well I ended up switching back to axura which imo offers great performance and battery life. Not saying TW roms are bad (nero v3 was amazing) give Masters axura a shot if you haven't.
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Does axura come with titanium backup or does it not wipe your data? I would like to keep my settings and apps if I do end up switching
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Does axura come with titanium backup or does it not wipe your data? I would like to keep my settings and apps if I do end up switching
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Axura does come with TB.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919573
My battery life isn't that great. I am going to turn off lagfix and see if there is any improvements.
I don't think lag fix had anything to do with battery that much, all it sites is change the filesystem right? And with bionix v I got over 24hrs battery
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I just flashed ka5 modem which was in tw last rom. I had great battery life and reception. Ill be testing tomorrow and will post my results with stock battery.
Its either this or not use it like most with 5 days use on a single charge.
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Well I think I finally conditioned correctly, and watchdog is notifying me about programs that are using lots of of cpu. So I'll see how today goes. 9:00 AM right now. Let's see how long it takes to die
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Seems to be dying much faster in standby mode
Edit: nevermind it seems to be doing well enough for the time being. Talked on the phone for 1 hour, texted, and went on xda and engadget. It is at 70%. On standby mode it ia doing loads better after reconditioning. Does losing 30% to doing stuff like that sound about right? Battery left says I have 7 hours 58 min remaining
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Anybody NOT having battery jump issues on Gingerbread

Wondering if some people are not affected by battery jumping issues (defined as battery % available is higher after the reboot compared to before reboot).
As far as I can tell I'm not. Seems like a normal, steady decline with regular usage.
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nsaia said:
As far as I can tell I'm not. Seems like a normal, steady decline with regular usage.
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You are on Gingerbread, right? Can you reboot your phone and see if you have % continue where it left off.
I'm having battery issues as well. It jumps drastically after reboot. I'm on HKTW and I was wondering if the official gingerbread would fix this but I wasn't gonna waste my time if the battery issue still remained
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milesjohnson said:
I'm having battery issues as well. It jumps drastically after reboot. I'm on HKTW and I was wondering if the official gingerbread would fix this but I wasn't gonna waste my time if the battery issue still remained
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It affects all Gingerbread versions from what I have read so far, so that's why I'm asking if somebody on Gingerbread is NOT having issue to find out what they did or do differently from rest of us not to have this issue. My battery just jumped after reboot from 26% to 89% available.
I'm on Kens GB 4.5.91 and battery works fine. I did use Battery Calibrate after install. I am actually getting better battery life too.
vanstorm said:
I'm on Kens GB 4.5.91 and battery works fine. I did use Battery Calibrate after install. I am actually getting better battery life too.
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So you if you reboot your phone your new battery reading is continues from where you left off? I did all battery calibration things and none helped.
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You are on Gingerbread, right? Can you reboot your phone and see if you have % continue where it left off.
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Ok. Had 50% before booting and now 80% after.
I've only rebooted once since jumping to stock gb. Then, I think I was somewhere around 60% at first then 90% after boot. I originally chalked that up to the battery calibrating itself as the battery was crappy after the upgrade and got better after the reboot. I'll keep a closer eye on it from reboot to reboot.
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Well I take back what I previously stated. I guess I am having battery issues. I just rebooted and battery monitor jumped 14% after reboot however it showed a decrease in the Mv available (4039 to 3998). I was much happier thinking I had working phone lol

Is it just me or the photon???

Gonna keep it short, got an extended battery, charges too 100%, calibrated it, did two charge cycles, battery still dies like a ton of bricks and does the dreaded sit at 1% for hours, now I've charged it via charging cable and external battery dock and still get the same results, any suggestions or solutions??
Stock 2.3.4 rooted
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25494725
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25494725
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thanks but no thanks, don't have bootstrap anymore to flash, and that obviously doesn't work as stated by many of the posters, instead of listing links of something with no results just give a straight answer, thank you
Wow! I think it's you.
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A2CKilla said:
thanks but no thanks, don't have bootstrap anymore to flash, and that obviously doesn't work as stated by many of the posters, instead of listing links of something with no results just give a straight answer, thank you
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If you want help don't be a ****. You will get better results.
bricky23 said:
If you want help don't be a ****. You will get better results.
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i wasn't trying to be, sorry if it came off that way, but people are so quick to just post a link here it's ridiculous, i've done my own research on the topic and came to that posting many a time, so i figured i'd ask for a second opinion
My seidio battery did the same thing, and using the framework apk from one of the threads on here didn't work either.
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A2CKilla said:
Gonna keep it short, got an extended battery, charges too 100%, calibrated it, did two charge cycles, battery still dies like a ton of bricks and does the dreaded sit at 1% for hours, now I've charged it via charging cable and external battery dock and still get the same results, any suggestions or solutions??
Stock 2.3.4 rooted
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It is the photon. I had the same thing all most 2 days of battery the first time. Then only 8 hr after charging for 24 hrs.
Then Finally nothing.
Oh Well.
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This is what has worked for me every time no matter if stock rooted or any other custom rom..... and I do this switching back and fourth between extended and stock battery..... you must be rooted.... atleast i was.
get the battery monitor widget from the market. In the setting you can change the ma rating of the battery you are using. Once you have done that click on stats in the app and it'll clear battery stats. Reboot phone go into app and clear stats again. That should be it. When I had clokworkmod installed on the reboot id clear battery stats in there as well.
This has worked for me time and time again.
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DualSportDad said:
This is what has worked for me every time no matter if stock rooted or any other custom rom..... and I do this switching back and fourth between extended and stock battery..... you must be rooted.... atleast i was.
get the battery monitor widget from the market. In the setting you can change the ma rating of the battery you are using. Once you have done that click on stats in the app and it'll clear battery stats. Reboot phone go into app and clear stats again. That should be it. When I had clokworkmod installed on the reboot id clear battery stats in there as well.
This has worked for me time and time again.
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Where is this state setting you speak of????!?!?!?
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Where is this state setting you speak of????!?!?!?
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I believe it's in the app he mentions. The "wipe battery stats" option is also in the advanced menu of CWM (clockwork mod). If you do not have a custom recovery installed just disregard that part as bootstrap does not have it.
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Battery issue after root( how to fix)

Ok, after I rooted I seem to be having a strange. Battery issue .. anyone have a fix for this? (I user antutu to control CPU and for now I'm busting using it to monitor+ dropped my phone iinto eco mode ( where it usually is) I can counter bat loss by doing the normal stuff but I never had to do.anything other then turn off data before... and even then... but from 10:50 pm to 2:40 am the phone went from 90% to 12% . And that was ..( eco was off) lol ... but I have never had that happen. Before even with that.
Thanks for any advice
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Check out the battery graph?? Does android system keeps awake all time??
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Check out the battery graph?? Does android system keeps awake all time??
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75% it was on the whole time...even though screen was off....
This is the screenshot its a straight drop over the hours mentioned ... slope stays steady so its Constant power drain until I noticed ( you can see on the graph)
None of those apps were open, and I had done a restart right before. ( I fell asleep which is why I know I wasn't using it)
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On top of the screen i see the skype is running in backgroud..
Just sign out from skype and also close wifi..
Try it bcz to know the exact battery issue trial and error method of clossing apps is best.
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75% it was on the whole time...even though screen was off....
This is the screenshot its a straight drop over the hours mentioned ... slope stays steady so its Constant power drain until I noticed ( you can see on the graph)
None of those apps were open, and I had done a restart right before. ( I fell asleep which is why I know I wasn't using it)
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Skype and Words with Friends destroy battery life if you don't completely kill them. Show us the top of your usage stats, not the graph.
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Skype and Words with Friends destroy battery life if you don't completely kill them. Show us the top of your usage stats, not the graph.
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+1. Or show both. Apps that stay on data/wifi will murder battery, even on eco mode.
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Close that both skype and worda apps, it drains much battery.
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Guys they were not open before lol! I opened them right before xda to postthis
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Guys they were not open before lol! I opened them right before xda to postthis
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LOL
Hahaha.. :thumbup:
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Right after I rooted mine I had terrible battery as well. I ended up reformatting (not wipe, actually formatting my system and caches) and then installed my rom again, fixed permissions and my battery life has been amazing. If I don't use the phone my battery maybe drains five percent all day long. If I use it a lot it will last most of the day as well.
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Right after I rooted mine I had terrible battery as well. I ended up reformatting (not wipe, actually formatting my system and caches) and then installed my rom again, fixed permissions and my battery life has been amazing. If I don't use the phone my battery maybe drains five percent all day long. If I use it a lot it will last most of the day as well.
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yeah mine actually stabilized after i worked with it a bit, i have to open up the bootloader still
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The other thing you should check is you fast dormancy.
If you're flashing custom ROMs it's best to do it at a FULL 100% charge. In the past, before I started doing this, I had major battery life "problems." My phone would drop from 100 to 1 in a matter of hours and just hang on 1% for hours on end. If you haven't done this, download Battery Calibration, turn off your device and plug it in. Once it reaches 100%, turn the device on, run the app, and restart your device WHILE STILL PLUGGED IN. Once everything settles you should be good to go.
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