[Q] Battery Problem - help please! - Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Have had my SGT 10.1 for about a month, unlocked bootloader, rooted, running Bonsai 0.2.0. Flashed Starburst a couple of days ago, with pershoot's kernel.
All has been well, until today, when it began shutting down because it thought it was out of power, although it was at 76%. I tried a few things to fix this, including wiping battery stats, and wiping data, cache and dalvik and restoring my nandroid backup. Now the Tab is draining the battery quickly, using it up in about 1/2 hour.
Do I need to replace this Tab, or is there a solution?
TIA!

I see other users are also having a the same issue ion the 10.1v development forum, have a look, maybe they can assist.

smalis said:
Have had my SGT 10.1 for about a month, unlocked bootloader, rooted, running Bonsai 0.2.0. Flashed Starburst a couple of days ago, with pershoot's kernel.
All has been well, until today, when it began shutting down because it thought it was out of power, although it was at 76%. I tried a few things to fix this, including wiping battery stats, and wiping data, cache and dalvik and restoring my nandroid backup. Now the Tab is draining the battery quickly, using it up in about 1/2 hour.
Do I need to replace this Tab, or is there a solution?
TIA!
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i dont know which kernel date your on, but flash -0809. that will sort it for you.
recalibrate your battery properly. you should go back to the stock kernel to do this.

pershoot said:
i dont know which kernel date your on, but flash -0809. that will sort it for you.
recalibrate your battery properly. you should go back to the stock kernel to do this.
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I am using PSKernel-boot-cm_2636.4_ux-oc-xtra-vfpv3-d16_fp-080711.
So, flash stock kernel, charge to 100%, delete batterystats.bin, reboot, let tablet fully discharge, then fully charge with tablet off, then with tablet at 100%, flash 0809?
Will do tonight. Thanks for the assist, and thanks for the development work!!

smalis said:
I am using PSKernel-boot-cm_2636.4_ux-oc-xtra-vfpv3-d16_fp-080711.
So, flash stock kernel, charge to 100%, delete batterystats.bin, reboot, let tablet fully discharge, then fully charge with tablet off, then with tablet at 100%, flash 0809?
Will do tonight. Thanks for the assist, and thanks for the development work!!
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i have no idea what pskernel is. that is not mine.
pls only get downloads from me.

pershoot said:
i have no idea what pskernel is. that is not mine.
pls only get downloads from me.
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Oh, sorry, that is your kernel, from Droid Basement. I had renamed it when I downloaded it just for my own (in)ability to remember what it was, and forgot that I had renamed it when I copied the name for my response to you.
Now, what were we talking about again...?

what is the recalibrate procedure and why is stock kernel recommended?
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alexige said:
what is the recalibrate procedure and why is stock kernel recommended?
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i'm also interested in recalibrating my battery (stock 10.1v).

alexige said:
what is the recalibrate procedure and why is stock kernel recommended?
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I believe the procedure is as stated in post #4.
Also, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867

Point of note: I've had the same battery phenomena occur on wifi (which I returned) and LTE units.
Key point: I have not rooted either of these units.
I believe it may be a Samsumg hardware issue. I am also wondering if this is a result of the unit(s) being banged around, as it seems to happen when I leave it in my laptop case or carry it on the go, more frequently. I can think of about six times this has happened...

iceshrike said:
Point of note: I've had the same battery phenomena occur on wifi (which I returned) and LTE units.
Key point: I have not rooted either of these units.
I believe it may be a Samsumg hardware issue. I am also wondering if this is a result of the unit(s) being banged around, as it seems to happen when I leave it in my laptop case or carry it on the go, more frequently. I can think of about six times this has happened...
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If you and I are having the same issue for my part i can rule that theory out because mine sits on my desk all day waiting for me to get home no drain all day then 30% drain within 45 mins of use.
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you can try this procedure:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1215182

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Quick question

Is there a rom for the original att aria. Both the cyanogen and liberated roms are giving me trouble I just want to go back to the default
Did u not do a nandroid back up? Just go to clock work. Nandroid,restore then pick the oldest one and let it restore. That should work....
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No I didn't do one -.-'
I know I ****ed up but is there any way to get back to original??
I've flashed previous phones so I thought I could go ahead and just do it but I am not having and success with either the liberated or the cm6.1
vicmora5 said:
No I didn't do one -.-'
I know I ****ed up but is there any way to get back to original??
I've flashed previous phones so I thought I could go ahead and just do it but I am not having and success with either the liberated or the cm6.1
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What do you mean you are not having success? There is probably a reason.
brswattt said:
What do you mean you are not having success? There is probably a reason.
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I frequently lose connection with liberty
I cant send/ receive picture/voice/video messages with either
Cyan drains my battery like crazy, 100% last night went to sleep woke up and the phone was dead..
If you know solutions to these then I'm willing to try and work with these ROMs, but other wise I think I need to get back to default.
vicmora5 said:
I frequently lose connection with liberty
I cant send/ receive picture/voice/video messages with either
Cyan drains my battery like crazy, 100% last night went to sleep woke up and the phone was dead..
If you know solutions to these then I'm willing to try and work with these ROMs, but other wise I think I need to get back to default.
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That's odd.
Before you flash each one, wipe user data, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik cache.
brswattt said:
That's odd.
Before you flash each one, wipe user data, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik cache.
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I have with both ROMs, multiple times. It's getting really frustrating ):
vicmora5 said:
I have with both ROMs, multiple times. It's getting really frustrating ):
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http://www.htc.com/us/support/aria-att/downloads/
Theres the rom.
brswattt said:
http://www.htc.com/us/support/aria-att/downloads/
Theres the rom.
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Thanks a lot, greatly appreciated.
Am i going to flash this one on there the same way I did with the other roms ?
vicmora5 said:
Thanks a lot, greatly appreciated.
Am i going to flash this one on there the same way I did with the other roms ?
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No, follow the instructions that are at that link. You run the RUU on your PC with your phone connected via the USB cable.
tpbklake said:
No, follow the instructions that are at that link. You run the RUU on your PC with your phone connected via the USB cable.
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Ok well thanks for the help
I'm using cm also. I do not have this battery problem. I charge at night and go to work next day and my battery last till I go back to bed the next day. Do u have advanced task killer to kill any app that may be running in the back grounds?also set apps that refresh automatically to do so less often. These things help mine alot.
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dough_boy said:
I'm using cm also. I do not have this battery problem. I charge at night and go to work next day and my battery last till I go back to bed the next day. Do u have advanced task killer to kill any app that may be running in the back grounds?also set apps that refresh automatically to do so less often. These things help mine alot.
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No I didn't have a task killer, but it's not like that really matters, i think. The cm was newly flashed all I had was the apps that came with is and I don't think that it had many that would require so much power to run while in sleep mode. The phone was fully charged after the flash then I went to sleep and when I woke up the phone was dead.

[Q] battery issue || vibrant - Honeybee rom

hey,
I bought a month ago a new vibrant from the states and I installed Bionix rom and then Honeybee.
I have 2 problems with the battery:
the first one is when I'm rebooting the cellphone the percents of the battery status get down by 10-30%, for example: I had 45% and then after the reboot I got 22%, sometimes it's even fell to 0%.
the second one is that the battery is working only within 5-5 and half hours max with no Wi-Fi and normal-less usage, the display is taking at least 80% of my battery (as it write on the setting option), I do have juice defender and I tried to find out what application taking so much battery but no success (I used some programs like watchdog lite and etc.).
I tried to change the battery the other ones (even battery that works great on the I-9000).
**I've tried to calibrate the battery more than once.
anybody has some suggestions?
have you done a battery calibration
?
try a different kernel
yalkowni said:
have you done a battery calibration
?
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yes I've done it already...
the next comment - I'm using Tigerbloodv3.22
I heard it's pretty good kernel.
Is it possible it's an hardware problem?
try bali 1.8 uv kernel
why dont you try going back to stock and see if the problem is is still there if it isnt try a differnt rom
yalkowni said:
why dont you try going back to stock and see if the problem is is still there if it isnt try a differnt rom
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I second this.
stock means to the original version?
if I want to do it, how can I save all of my contacts?
idanmev said:
stock means to the original version?
if I want to do it, how can I save all of my contacts?
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if you save them to the sim it wont matter
or back up contacts/calls with titanium backup, cant restore it on any other version though, just 2.2.1 if thats what honeybee is
back up anything else you want with titanium, preferable not system data unless you're just going to restore it to that version
idanmev said:
stock means to the original version?
if I want to do it, how can I save all of my contacts?
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Best way in my opinion is just to make sure you save everyone as a Google contact. That way they are backed up and restored automatically.
idanmev said:
stock means to the original version?
If i want to do it, how can i save all of my contacts?
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download an app from market called contact2sim
which version should I download? can I flash it through Clockwise?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747335
idanmev said:
which version should I download? can I flash it through Clockwise?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747335
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someone can answer me please?..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
Go to that instead and learn how to use Odin.
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alright, I've done it, I got back to the stock but I STILL HAVE THE PROBLEM
when I'm rebooting the cellphone the battery status is changing by 20-30% less
idanmev said:
alright, I've done it, I got back to the stock but I STILL HAVE THE PROBLEM
when I'm rebooting the cellphone the battery status is changing by 20-30% less
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try calibrating again, charge full, unplug, if it drops, plugin again, keeps repeating this till it stays at 100
then use a calibration app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867
or boot into recovery and wipe battery stats
or do it through root explorer and reboot
it'll take a few charge cycles to settle in, charge full, run all the way down till its completely dead, charge full, run all way down again
alright, so I calibrated my cellphone and it is still with the battery problem... is it possible that there is an hardware problem?
idanmev said:
alright, so I calibrated my cellphone and it is still with the battery problem... is it possible that there is an hardware problem?
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dont know, my phone's done it a few times and i've had it jump up 30 or 40% aswell after a reboot so just leave it a few days, let it settle
or try a different battery
I flashed the Bali 1.2ghz kernel last night and my battery is now amazing! Unplugged my phone at 6:30am, its now 10:40pm and with heavy use I still have 22% left.
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kyle51 said:
dont know, my phone's done it a few times and i've had it jump up 30 or 40% aswell after a reboot so just leave it a few days, let it settle
or try a different battery
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I've tried it already, 3 different battery

URGENT!!! Battery Drain after Samsung Apps Update

Guys! This is SERIOUS! EVEN AFTER UNINSTALLING the Samsung Push Service and the other Samsung Utility and also freezing the Samsung Apps using Titanium, the battery drain continues! Nothing has worked. Battery going from 100% to ZERO in less than 3 Hours! Does anyone know what is happening and how to stop this???
I think the only option left now is to reflash the ROM. I was on XWKK2 CF-Rooted which was working great till this damned Samsung Update! The battery is LOSING CHARGE even when plugged into my laptop! I don't know how I'll be able to get my battery back to 100% to reflash the Rom.
TheMegastar said:
Guys! This is SERIOUS! EVEN AFTER UNINSTALLING the Samsung Push Service and the other Samsung Utility and also freezing the Samsung Apps using Titanium, the battery drain continues! Nothing has worked. Battery going from 100% to ZERO in less than 3 Hours! Does anyone know what is happening and how to stop this???
I think the only option left now is to reflash the ROM. I was on XWKK2 CF-Rooted which was working great till this damned Samsung Update! The battery is LOSING CHARGE even when plugged into my laptop! I don't know how I'll be able to get my battery back to 100% to reflash the Rom.
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I wrongly pressed the thanks button..
Anyway, charge the phone while off for a couple of hours and try reflashing a fresh firmware.. Maybe that should do the trick..
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ephraim033 said:
charge the phone while off for a couple of hours and try reflashing a fresh firmware.. Maybe that should do the trick..
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That's exactly what I"m going to do. No other option left. Let's hope it works.
TheMegastar said:
That's exactly what I"m going to do. No other option left. Let's hope it works.
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Good luck with that. Report here after.
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Also... install BETTERBATTERYSTATS and see what is waking your phone up. Seems to me like it's never sleeping.
Riqz said:
Also... install BETTERBATTERYSTATS and see what is waking your phone up. Seems to me like it's never sleeping.
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Now all new apps can be installed only AFTER I flash the ROM again. Waiting for the battery charge to go over 50% level so that I can flash the ROM.
Have reflashed and re-rooted the ROM. Looks like it has solved the battery drain problem, will know for sure by later tonight. The overheating of the phone is gone and it's back to normal. Don't know what the problem was yet, but started after updating Samsung Apps. Have frozen both Samsung Apps and SamsungAppsUNA now.
some more users reported that they had battery drain after installing that, i hva no problems however
TheMegastar said:
Have reflashed and re-rooted the ROM. Looks like it has solved the battery drain problem, will know for sure by later tonight. The overheating of the phone is gone and it's back to normal. Don't know what the problem was yet, but started after updating Samsung Apps. Have frozen both Samsung Apps and SamsungAppsUNA now.
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I have followed your advice of freezing samsung apps and samsungappsUNA via autorun manager.
Prior to that been using Rarity rom for weeks, great battery life, well over 24hrs with heavy use and then all of a sudden after updating some apps (the 2 above mentioneded werent part of that), my phone has started to heat up and the battery drain is very fast (5% in 30mins), before it would go few hours without 1% loss.
Trieed looking at the updated apps but no luck so have tried your advice before i reflash wipe which i dont want to so praying this works.
Even tried flashing different kernels but no luck.
*cheers for the advice, battery life seems to have gone back to normal

[Q] Help, new to this

Hi, I downloaded and installed XWLPY NeatRom Lite v3.5 (18th October 2012)a couple of days ago and now my battery is draining extremely fast. I tried a couple of battery managers and nothing seems to work.
Anyone with any ideas on what I can do to remedy this? Plus I can't see the update section in my settings, is it removed with this software?
Kaz0721 said:
Hi, I downloaded and installed XWLPY NeatRom Lite v3.5 (18th October 2012)a couple of days ago and now my battery is draining extremely fast. I tried a couple of battery managers and nothing seems to work.
Anyone with any ideas on what I can do to remedy this? Plus I can't see the update section in my settings, is it removed with this software?
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The ROM doesnt have an update because the devs have removed it because you just flash an update. As for the battery drain give it a few more days if the problem persists try another ROM. If it still persists after that try recalibrating the battery or resetting the fuel gauge chip.
Hope this helps
NeatROM v3.5
Kaz0721 said:
Hi, I downloaded and installed XWLPY NeatRom Lite v3.5 (18th October 2012)a couple of days ago and now my battery is draining extremely fast. I tried a couple of battery managers and nothing seems to work.
Anyone with any ideas on what I can do to remedy this? Plus I can't see the update section in my settings, is it removed with this software?
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Hi,
NeatROM 3.5 is one of the best ROMs from battery backup perspective. And I can say that because I am using it since 3.5 came out and have never had any issues.
For a better battery life, follow the steps from the link,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33045733&postcount=8776
Please note that the instructions are prepared to get the most out of your battery. Even if you follow the few ones that you are comfortable with, you will surely see some improvement.
Please press Thanks if this has helped you.
NeatROM 3.5 is one of the best ROMs from battery backup perspective. And I can say that because I am using it since 3.5 came out and have never had any issues.
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I agree with you .I use NeatRom 3.5 with Dorimanx, the best combination for me.
Adarzannh said:
The ROM doesnt have an update because the devs have removed it because you just flash an update. As for the battery drain give it a few more days if the problem persists try another ROM. If it still persists after that try recalibrating the battery or resetting the fuel gauge chip.
Hope this helps
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Sound complicated, thanks though.
Kaz0721 said:
Sound complicated, thanks though.
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Its simple mate. Just download an app and hit a button.
Usually battery drain is due to one of two things.
-Phone not going into deep sleep
-Wakelocks.
Download an app like CPU spy. you can use it to see whether or not your phone is going into deep sleep like it should. Also, use better battery stats to look for wakelocks. Download the app from HERE , let it run for one battery cycle and then check for wakelocks. If you dont know what those are, spend some time reading that thread.
But if you want to hold off for a couple of days, you can do that. It does take some time for a phone battery to settle when a new rom/kernel has been installed, after which battery life tends to improve.
HAXTREME said:
Its simple mate. Just download an app and hit a button.
Usually battery drain is due to one of two things.
-Phone not going into deep sleep
-Wakelocks.
Download an app like CPU spy. you can use it to see whether or not your phone is going into deep sleep like it should. Also, use better battery stats to look for wakelocks. Download the app from HERE , let it run for one battery cycle and then check for wakelocks. If you dont know what those are, spend some time reading that thread.
But if you want to hold off for a couple of days, you can do that. It does take some time for a phone battery to settle when a new rom/kernel has been installed, after which battery life tends to improve.
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Thank you very much for your help mate. I've tried a couple of battery managers off play (juice defender and another one). Right now kind of regretting this download, everything seems to be going wrong;
1. battery is draining @ 15% in 20 mins ( I only bought the battery last week after having the phone unlocked).
2. there's a lot of lag
3. screens keep freezing and
4. keep losing reception and constantly having to restart phone.
I only downloaded this cause after unlocking my phone it failed to update. Is there any other that I can download that works well with SGS2?
There's no dearth of ROMs for the i9100 dude. Try a couple out and see if those help. If its stability you're after, maybe use an ICS Rom rather than JB.
15% in 20 mins isn't normal even for a first day..you sure it isn't a faulty battery right? Was it giving decent life before you switched to this ROM?
Try downloading a calibration app and see what the voltage is when it says its charged 100%. Should be around 4100-4200 mAh.
As for the lags and freezes, did you wipe data, cache etc before you installed this Rom?
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I had cleared the cache in settings before installing. Like I said, my first time doing this. Seemed straight forward at the time.
Since my phone is unlocked, will it return to ics4.0.3 which is what I had before?
Battery calibration app is showing 4161mv.
Will a factory reset help?
Thanks for all the help, site can be a bit confusing sometimes lol.
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Kaz0721 said:
I had cleared the cache in settings before installing. Like I said, my first time doing this. Seemed straight forward at the time.
Since my phone is unlocked, will it return to ics4.0.3 which is what I had before?
Battery calibration app is showing 4161mv.
Will a factory reset help?
Thanks for all the help, site can be a bit confusing sometimes lol.
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Cache from settings? No. I meant clearing cache from the CWM recovery menu. If you installed the ROM via CWM, that is.
If you did, I'd suggest reinstalling it again via cwm this time clearing data, cache and dalvik cache.
Ok..I just realised I totally assumed you'd installed it using CWM. Not sure if you did.
You can return to 4.0.3 if you want. Download stock firmware from sammobile.com and install it via Odin. I'm sure there's a guide on how to do that somewhere on this site.
Just noticed someone posted instructions on maximising battery. Did you use those? It could explain the freezes if they started after that. Some phones just can't handle undervolting etc.
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Morning, I downloaded some battery managers and seems to be working better and faster. Battery discharged 27% in 5 hours.
Will see how it goes over the next couple of days.
Teaches me a lesson to do my research first lol.
Below is a screen shot of the apps I installed.
Thanks and gave a great day!
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Haha that's a lotta apps just to save battery. As long as it helps eh? 27% in 5 hours is pretty acceptable for moderately heavy use. Depends on your signal strength and whether you're using data or on WiFi etc.
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[Q] X-File with my battery

Hello guys,
I'm a little bit desperate with my battery. One month ago I updated from ICS to JB in my s2 i9100 and the horrible loop started:
- Between 100-70% of charge everything is going more or less ok
- Suddenly, phone turns off. After restarting, the battery is around 40% and very unstable
- Now it's even worse, without charger, the phone remains up only 15-20 minutes.
I tried EVERYTHING:
- All the roms for JB (all versions of RR, Paranoid Android) with all the combination of Kernels (CM10, Siyah and Dorimanx)
- Go back to ICS (of course, for every ROM I give to the phone 2-3 days to stabilise it)
- Battery calibration tools of the play store (even I paid 3$ for one of them)
- Battery calibration without being ROOT (the trick of this thread did not work. I tried 3 times)
- Reset fuel gauge chip from the ex-Tweaks
...
Any other idea/clue?
I'm about to give up, I think I'm going to get a new battery. I prefer to pay 15-20$ than spending hours trying to figure it out.
The last question. I'm assuming that a brand new battery will fix this problem. Am I right? I'm afraid of buying a new battery and facing the same issue.
If I get a new one I am supposed to do some operation on the phone before to install it?
Currently I'm using RR 3.1.1 with dorimanx kernel.
Thank you very much in advance!*
You guys do an AWESOME job with this forum.
How is your battery now? Did you try to remove it for a while? Did you test to wipe battery stats in recovery?
Nico_60 said:
How is your battery now? Did you try to remove it for a while? Did you test to wipe battery stats in recovery?
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My battery SUCKS now. If I'm using the telephone in a normal way (surfing, music, videos)... it goes down every 30 minutes.
I'm going to try to remove for a while right now. You mean, minutes, hours, days?
Yes, I tried to wipe battery stats from recovery with no results.
Thank YOU very much for your interest
just remove it 2-3 min but i don't think it will be better. Can you tell me how is it after. Thanks.
Nico_60 said:
just remove it 2-3 min but i don't think it will be better. Can you tell me how is it after. Thanks.
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I did it and same problem.
I don't know if there is anything else to test...
Sorry for my no help
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Try RootBox 3.0 with dorimanx 7.4. I've been using it since it came out with no problems.
If you're worried about battery try better battery stats to check the wakelocks and cpu spy to see if your device is deep sleeping
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I gave up
Hi guys,
Quick post just to say that I got a brand new battery.
Problem solved
Thanks!
soriaedu79 said:
Hi guys,
Quick post just to say that I got a brand new battery.
Problem solved
Thanks!
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Glad you solved it
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