Hey all, I did a quick search but didn't find an obvious answer. I've tried quite a few GB Roma on my Thunderbolt and I know it's good to periodically reset battery data through ClockworkMod. I'm looking for a specific order of operations. The following is how I've been doing it. Charge fully, reboot into recovery. Unplug phone. Clear battery info. Shut down phone and plug in until fully charged. Any suggestions?
Thanks
ParadiseProAudio said:
Hey all, I did a quick search but didn't find an obvious answer. I've tried quite a few GB Roma on my Thunderbolt and I know it's good to periodically reset battery data through ClockworkMod. I'm looking for a specific order of operations. The following is how I've been doing it. Charge fully, reboot into recovery. Unplug phone. Clear battery info. Shut down phone and plug in until fully charged. Any suggestions?
Thanks
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Just download battery calibration from the market. Once your phone is fully charged, wipe battery stats in the application and then unplug your phone and let it die. Then charge your baby back up.
I believe that application won't let you wipe the battery stats until it's fully charged.
Trident77 said:
Just download battery calibration from the market. Once your phone is fully charged, wipe battery stats in the application and then unplug your phone and let it die. Then charge your baby back up.
I believe that application won't let you wipe the battery stats until it's fully charged.
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Battery Calibration app is the easiest way for clearing battery stats. I notice after after two days I see huge improvement in battery life. Remember after that first full charge and clearing the stats make sure you let your phone die.
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ParadiseProAudio said:
Hey all, I did a quick search but didn't find an obvious answer. I've tried quite a few GB Roma on my Thunderbolt and I know it's good to periodically reset battery data through ClockworkMod. I'm looking for a specific order of operations. The following is how I've been doing it. Charge fully, reboot into recovery. Unplug phone. Clear battery info. Shut down phone and plug in until fully charged. Any suggestions?
Thanks
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... Doesn't batterstats get wiped after a new rom flash anyway
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So what exactly is the correct way to recondition your battery after installing a new rom? I have been following the Bionix version of recondition below
1. Charge phone completely, leave plugged into power
2. Boot into recovery
3. Wipe battery stats
4. Reboot
5. Remove power cable
6. Drain that sucker all the way
7. Recharge fully
But i see there is some discussion on the proper way, and this one ruining your battery life. What is the actual correct way then?
That's the method I used a few weeks ago. Can't say there was any noticeable improvement, but I've never read that it was the wrong way....
mystycs said:
So what exactly is the correct way to recondition your battery after installing a new rom? I have been following the Bionix version of recondition below
1. Charge phone completely, leave plugged into power
2. Boot into recovery
3. Wipe battery stats
4. Reboot
5. Remove power cable
6. Drain that sucker all the way
7. Recharge fully
But i see there is some discussion on the proper way, and this one ruining your battery life. What is the actual correct way then?
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Please read THIS --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877597
..... And / Or .....
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lithium-ion+deep+cycle
T313C0mun1s7 said:
Please read THIS --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877597
..... And / Or .....
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lithium-ion+deep+cycle
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So in all essence... Dont do it! Haha then what is the point of wipe battery stats? Should i still at least wipe it at 100 percent after its charged, and then just use it normally.
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So in all essence... Dont do it! Haha then what is the point of wipe battery stats? Should i still at least wipe it at 100 percent after its charged, and then just use it normally.
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The "point" of it is just to get the software to know the upper and lower limits of the battery to it can more accurately determine its current level. It learns the battery level and becomes more accurate over time, but many here flash new ROMs too frequently for it to get the chance. Just use your phone and don't worry about the battery, you will be fine. Leave it on all the time, even at night. Charge it when ever you are idle for any length of time and over night. You can not over charge it and it does not have a memory, but you can certainly shorten its lifespan by deep cycling it. If you think the battery meter is really way off what it should be then clear it first thing in the morning after it has been charging. Also, don't be surprised if you rarely or never see 100%. This is the normal way the charger keeps heat buildup from killing the battery. 97% to 99% after a charge is fine.
Thanks T313C0mun1s7, that's the most sensible advice about the battery I've read in awhile.
So the last couple of days I've been trying to cycle my battery to see if I can get some more use out of it and I have noticed a strange problem. When I drain the battery completely it will automatically turn off but when I plug the charger in and turn the phone back on it will show that it have anywhere from 20-30% usable battery life remaining. Any ideas what is going on?
Let it die after it says 30%.
unplug charger and let it die.
DIE DIE DIE!!!!
Then you can wipe battery stats.
HG! said:
Let it die after it says 30%.
unplug charger and let it die.
DIE DIE DIE!!!!
Then you can wipe battery stats.
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^^After it dies, turn it back on and let it die again... and again... and again until it won't do ANYTHING. Then you can recondition it.
HG! said:
Let it die after it says 30%.
unplug charger and let it die.
DIE DIE DIE!!!!
Then you can wipe battery stats.
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how do you wipe the battery stats if you're stock? I know theres the option in clockworkmod, but i dont have that on my vibrant at the moment.
Are you rooted? Just download rom manager and use the flash cwm option. Afterwards, boot to stock recovery and select reinstall packages to get into cwm.
Sdobron said:
Are you rooted? Just download rom manager and use the flash cwm option. Afterwards, boot to stock recovery and select reinstall packages to get into cwm.
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i am (check the sig) but you need a modified 3e recovery in order for cwm to stick if you're on official KA6 and I'm being a chicken right now (the phone is working great for the first time in a while, minus the battery life and im not ready to mess anything up)
JUST ROOT IT! Its the best you can do with an android phone trust me just downgrade it back to 2.1 with odin and root from there. There's almost no way you could brick your phone. But its okay if you don't because I was chicken until this 2.2 upgrade came and I've already bricked once but fixed it with odin. But trust me once you root you'll never regret that's how I felt about my mytouch 3g 1.2, cliq, mytouch slide, and vibrant.
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skyze said:
So the last couple of days I've been trying to cycle my battery to see if I can get some more use out of it and I have noticed a strange problem. When I drain the battery completely it will automatically turn off but when I plug the charger in and turn the phone back on it will show that it have anywhere from 20-30% usable battery life remaining. Any ideas what is going on?
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One of the functions of the battery stats file is to help the phone decide when your battery is nearly dead. This lets the phone perform a clean shutdown instead of just losing power and dying.
If I were you, I'd charge the phone fully, wipe the battery stats file, use it normally without charging until it ran down completely to power-off, then recharge it -- and maybe let it run down completely one more time at least.
It could be that something about your usage patterns makes the phone "expect" the battery to die sooner than it really does, or maybe the 20% reading upon power-up is incorrect and the phone actually runs out of juice faster than the phone expects.
Either way, resetting your battery stats is probably the best fix.
Hi guys, when i try to charge my battery its stop charging with 90% and never goes beyond that. It starts to happen 2 weeks ago.
Any help would be great to fix it.
Thanks,
Did you search this forum?
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Boot into recovery, then go to advanced and reset battery stats, then reboot. Use your phone until the battery dies then fully recharge. If this doesn't fix the issue, you may have a bad battery.
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Have you Tried to Recalibrate the Battery?
Sometimes the phone battery monitoring gets out of sync and the remedy is to recalibrate the battery.
You can either try one of the available apps in the Android Market or you can do some manual steps available online(just search for Android Battery Recalibration).
Here is one example, scroll down to Battery Calibration section: http://www.darkyrom.com/community/index.php?threads/guide-battery-life.2551/
I tried wiping the battery stats and calibrating as well but what worked for me was:
1. Charge for at least 4 hours to ensure a full charge
2. Unplug, turn off, and then pull the battery
3. While battery is out, plug charger back in and wait for the battery icon with the question mark.
4. Reinsert the battery (results will vary here, mine comes up as 5% for some reason)
5. Unplug the charger and then plug it back in, it should show as 100% now
6. Turn on while plugged in, wait until fully booted and then unplug from charger (it should read as 100% or 99%, depending on how your battery gauge works)
This is just what worked for me, I am running Navalynt's pi-crust (based on AT&T 4.5.91) so please be careful and research if there would be any issues with other ROMs
OpsRJ said:
Hi guys, when i try to charge my battery its stop charging with 90% and never goes beyond that. It starts to happen 2 weeks ago.
Any help would be great to fix it.
Thanks,
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wrenchmonkey26 said:
Boot into recovery, then go to advanced and reset battery stats, then reboot. Use your phone until the battery dies then fully recharge. If this doesn't fix the issue, you may have a bad battery.
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DellXCD35user said:
Sometimes the phone battery monitoring gets out of sync and the remedy is to recalibrate the battery.
You can either try one of the available apps in the Android Market or you can do some manual steps available online(just search for Android Battery Recalibration).
Here is one example, scroll down to Battery Calibration section: http://www.darkyrom.com/community/index.php?threads/guide-battery-life.2551/
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Hello. I've been charging my phone the whole night and it only got to 94%. After I restarted the phone, the battery was at 81%. Does anyone knows what's wrong? Thanks.
markslo112 said:
Hello. I've been charging my phone the whole night and it only got to 94%. After I restarted the phone, the battery was at 81%. Does anyone knows what's wrong? Thanks.
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A little more info would be nice. What rom are you using? Do you have root permissions? Are you s-off?
The first solution is:
On OVO 3D sometime if battery is charged to 100% he starts to use battery power instead of charger so if the light is green you need just to connect the charger again and it will start to charge again.
And the second:
After you installed some kind of ROM you need to calibrate the battery again. You can do by discharging your phone to 3-5% and then charge it to the full. You need to repeat this process few time and then you have calibrated battery.
Sorry but i forget to say that before recharging you need to delete old Battery stats
irumora said:
The first solution is:
On OVO 3D sometime if battery is charged to 100% he starts to use battery power instead of charger so if the light is green you need just to connect the charger again and it will start to charge again.
And the second:
After you installed some kind of ROM you need to calibrate the battery again. You can do by discharging your phone to 3-5% and then charge it to the full. You need to repeat this process few time and then you have calibrated battery.
Sorry but i forget to say that before recharging you need to delete old Battery stats
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The first thing is correct. When the phone is fully charged the charging stops and the phone uses power from the battery.
As for your second statement - you are partly right. Even though most developers say the same thing you said I found the battery calibration is the best way to get the most from your battery. I tried everything that developers suggested and it didn´t work so well. Battery calibration did the trick - now my battery life is great
Anker batteries seem to work the best
Hey. Thanks for the replies. I'm using the 4EXT recovery and KingCobra3D - ICS 1.6 ROM. The thing is that my phone doesn't even charge up to 100%. Is it necessary to discharge the phone to 1-5% and then charge it to full and then calibrate via recovery or can I just calibrate the battery without having to discharge it first?
Also, I have root on my phone and S-ON.
My anker battery has reported like 4000 charge since I got it and I tried using the calibrate app but it still reports the same after a few cycles? It should be reporting 1900.
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markslo112 said:
Hey. Thanks for the replies. I'm using the 4EXT recovery and KingCobra3D - ICS 1.6 ROM. The thing is that my phone doesn't even charge up to 100%. Is it necessary to discharge the phone to 1-5% and then charge it to full and then calibrate via recovery or can I just calibrate the battery without having to discharge it first?
Also, I have root on my phone and S-ON.
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If you don´t use battery calibration you should go into recovery and wipe battery stats. Then boot up and fully charge the phone and let it discharge to 5-15%. Charge it to full and that should be it.
If you use battery calibration just charge to full, enter calibration app, hit calibrate and that is it
donkeykong1 said:
If you don´t use battery calibration you should go into recovery and wipe battery stats. Then boot up and fully charge the phone and let it discharge to 5-15%. Charge it to full and that should be it.
If you use battery calibration just charge to full, enter calibration app, hit calibrate and that is it
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Okay the phone charged up to 100% but it took ages. I've downloaded the Battery Calibration app from the Market and hopefully everything's gonna be well now.
I have battery life issue too. I will try battery calibration.
most people here are changing ROMs...and most of the time people say that some ROMS are a big battery drainer..
some move to other ROMs because they noticed that the battery performance of the ROM they are using is changing..
this happens because all the records on the way we charge are saved on the battery stats..sometimes our battery meter says the wrong information. that is why we have to calibrate our battery...we usually do this by going to CWM and wipe battery stats..
but are we really doing it the right way?
here is my guide to do this in the proper way:
i know some of you are using battery calibration from them the market, but all it does is just delete battery_stats.bin from system..But the truth is, the system is still writing the old battery stats if it's erased online...So the only solution is to delete it through recovery...
this is what you need to do:
1.Install Battery Monitor Widget from Market for Monitoring
2.Charge your phone to 100%
3.When done, restart your phone, but go to CWM recovery
4.Go to advanced -> Delete Battery Stats
5.Reboot, you should get battery about 90-100% (depending how much margin has been wrongly calculated)
6.Open Battery Monitor Widget to monitor the voltages. the maximum voltage is 4200mV for Li-Poly battery. Try to reach that value before disconnecting the charger.
7.Before the voltage graph getting dropped, Disconnect the charger immediately. for me it is stopped at max 4190. your mileage may vary.
8.You're done, your battery is calibrated..
kind regards,
baiclark
Thanks for the tips
I dont have wipe battery stats in CWM. What to do now
It is in "advanced" option
Yes but there is no Wipe battery stats
krasimiretov said:
Yes but there is no Wipe battery stats
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its there brov.. its underneath wipe dalvick cache!
Here is an even more impressive method ....
Charge the phone to 100% and remove it from charger !!!
Voila!!
Tuturu !!
There !! done !! batterystats refreshed !!!
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...-battery-stats-does-not-improve-battery-life/
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
CWM v6.0.2.7 there is no delete battery stats
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Yes, There's no option for wipe battery stats on CWM 6
Only CWM 5 i guess
Guys!! Wipe battery stats is havent nothing to do with battery life!! There is only info about battery drain of every app and time of theses app. Also battery stats are wipe every time when you charge battery above 90% so this function in cwm is practicaly useless.
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madhouses said:
Guys!! Wipe battery stats is havent nothing to do with battery life!! There is only info about battery drain of every app and time of theses app. Also battery stats are wipe every time when you charge battery above 90% so this function in cwm is practicaly useless.
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This was actually confirmed by Google themselves. I think it was the year before last.
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I tried it already. but i think my battery stat is still wrong. It randomly turn off at 10%
Because this is nothing to do with battery stats. Whats really help me even on non android phones is keep phone on charger even if phone show 100% if this persist battery have bes of life gone.
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johan23 said:
I tried it already. but i think my battery stat is still wrong. It randomly turn off at 10%
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For sudden drops to 0% Sony Service recommends that you charge the phone to 100%, remove the usb cable and the battery for at least 10 minutes. Return the battery to your device, turn the power back on and put your phone back on the usb charger until it hits 100%.
nice job
good work man. thumbs up...
thank you!
justmpm said:
For sudden drops to 0% Sony Service recommends that you charge the phone to 100%, remove the usb cable and the battery for at least 10 minutes. Return the battery to your device, turn the power back on and put your phone back on the usb charger until it hits 100%.
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Thank you I've had this isssue I'll try it later today thanks
thanks
justmpm said:
For sudden drops to 0% Sony Service recommends that you charge the phone to 100%, remove the usb cable and the battery for at least 10 minutes. Return the battery to your device, turn the power back on and put your phone back on the usb charger until it hits 100%.
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Thanks, will try that.
justmpm said:
For sudden drops to 0% Sony Service recommends that you charge the phone to 100%, remove the usb cable and the battery for at least 10 minutes. Return the battery to your device, turn the power back on and put your phone back on the usb charger until it hits 100%.
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Just found this method. Testing it now. Anyone tested it? Is it working?
My Ray's battery went from 25% to 1% suddenly.