Hi, I'm new to the forum.
Recently, I have rooted my aria with Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7
however, when i switch off my phone to charge, the led light doesn't go out even after i pulled it out from the plug.
Can anyone tell me why?
Hi,
look in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1190227
Adrian Chau said:
Hi, I'm new to the forum.
Recently, I have rooted my aria with Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7
however, when i switch off my phone to charge, the led light doesn't go out even after i pulled it out from the plug.
Can anyone tell me why?
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Did you use Unrevoked or Revolutionary?
Battery stats are jumping and showing inconsistent information
Hello,
I have a strange problem with my rooted and S-OFF’ed Aria for the last six months and I have been trying to find a solution or a fix to the problem ever since.
The battery percentage is always incorrect and never shows any percentage value greater than 30 even after 8-10 hours of charging and drains within an hour phone shuts off. The phone is basically useless for me right now.
I did try all the calibration methods and other solutions (listed below) that I could find in the web and the forums here, but none seem to have fixed the issue.
Soft Reset
Hard Reset
Format System, data, cache partitions
Installed all available ROMs in the community (Liberated, CM 6, CM 7, Stock Original, Stock Update for 2.1, Stock Update with Froyo (2.2) etc).
Battery Calibration of all known procedures (Delete batterystats, discharge fully, recharge fully etc)
Did a task 29 (fastboot oem task 29)
Replaced with a brand new original battery from ATT.
Now with S-OFF, I cannot fully revert to Stock version or send it for Warranty repairs etc (Is there a way to revert to S-ON)?
So now turning on to the experts in this community to help me out and you guys are really awesome in guiding others and fixing things. Hoping to hear from someone.
Btw, I found a similar symptoms and “solution” in the Atrix forum. Please refer link below.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333
Have you tried wiping battery stats, then just using the phone normally? (not letting the battery totally discharge, etc.)
Did the problem only start happening after you S-OFF, or did it happen before then?
It does sound to me like there's nothing you would be able to do about the problem, except reverting to S-ON and sending the phone in for warranty service. Supposedly there is a method for doing this although I have no idea how complicated it would be. You should probably go to the #liberatedAria IRC channel to ask about how to do it.
Thanks for your reply, drumist
Yes, I tried wiping the batterystats and used the phone normally for couple weeks, still no difference.
The problem started months before I did S-OFF, possibly due to multiple format, flash of ROMs etc. Somehow the phone or the battery doesn't know the correct readings/voltage data.
The max voltage on a full 8-10 hours charge that I have seen is only 3.8 v (new and old battery) and ideally it should be >4 v for a full charge.
Thanks,
sannpt said:
The max voltage on a full 8-10 hours charge that I have seen is only 3.8 v (new and old battery) and ideally it should be >4 v for a full charge.
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Yeah. It sounds to me like the mechanism in the phone that is supposed to charge the battery is failing to charge it above a certain threshold. Either that or the mechanism that measures the voltage is failing. You could figure out which one is the case by measuring the battery's voltage with a multimeter if you have one.
I know this is a long shot, but have you tried charging the phone with a different USB cable, or with a different USB power adapter, or by plugging into a different power socket in the wall (or using a different computer if you are charging through a computer USB port)?
Today I tested both batteries using a multimeter and both had voltage > 4 (old battery: 4.19 v new 4.18 v). I tested this after charging the batteries through the phone, so it proves phone charging is working fine and the batteries are good.
Then I went to CWM and deleted the batterystats, pulled the battery out, waited for couple minutes, put it back in and restarted to generate a fresh stats file.
But the voltage displayed in the phone is totally wrong (3456 mv) and showed 20%, so there is something wrong with how the phone understands full battery voltage and percentage.
I waited for the phone to discharge and shut off (which was <10 mins), then checked the battery voltage in multimeter, it was still good at 4.10 v (lost only about .09 mv).
Is there anything that we can do to override or correct the voltage and percentage in the phone?
Thanks,
sannpt said:
Is there anything that we can do to override or correct the voltage and percentage in the phone?
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Nothing that I'm aware of.
Adrian Chau said:
Hi, I'm new to the forum.
Recently, I have rooted my aria with Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7
however, when i switch off my phone to charge, the led light doesn't go out even after i pulled it out from the plug.
Can anyone tell me why?
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i'm having the same issue with you, and never find an solution to it.
htc aria
my phone is not getting charged, it shows charging but reduces the charging already present. how to solve this issue
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First off, picked up 2 GTabs yesterday and thanks for all of the work everyone has done to make these tablets better. And my first question of probably many.
Our Battery level indicators have not gotten back up to 100%. Yesterday when I was flashing the roms they would get to 97%, and after charging over night they showed 96%. Didn't know if there was a way to calibrate the level there or not.
Thanks.
extremefire said:
First off, picked up 2 GTabs yesterday and thanks for all of the work everyone has done to make these tablets better. And my first question of probably many.
Our Battery level indicators have not gotten back up to 100%. Yesterday when I was flashing the roms they would get to 97%, and after charging over night they showed 96%. Didn't know if there was a way to calibrate the level there or not.
Thanks.
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I'm not sure if this will work but, if you can get into recovery mode:
Press and Hold down "Volume Up" Button and then press Power Button until you see a messege on the upper left hand corner that says something like.
"Detect a recovery Key pressed"
From the recovery menu, select ADAVNCED, then WIPE BATTERY STATS.
I've never had an issue with the battery on my GTAB but maybe it will help.
Good luck
That's very helpful, thanks! I was havng the 96%/97% maximum charge issue as well.
Running TNTLite 4.2.3.
Going to go ahead and drain the tabs down today and let them charge to full overnight one last time. If they still give me trouble I'll try the battery stats wipe.
Thanks.
I have the same thing happen to me after I flashed.
It only charges to 97%
I tried wiping the battery stats but it still only charges to 96/97
running vegan 5.1.1
I'm having the same issue. Hmm
VEGAn 1.00 beta 5.1.1
Hi everyone.
Had this exact same issue.
was using ZEAM for my launcher,
once I switched to Launcher Pro, my battery level now shows 100% when the charge light is green.
Not quite sure how this is related to ZEAM, but I used ZEAM for my launcher on both TNT and VEGAn Tab and had the battery level issue - would never charge past 96 or 97%.
hope this helps!
running launcher pro and vegan...still nothing past 97%...have wiped battery stats etc..
Mine only shows 96-97%, but actual battery life is excellent.
Success! Sort of. I'm experiencing the same issue, but I've been able to get the battery to display 100% but charging it up to full, unplugging and using for a few minutes and then plugging the tablet back in. This trick doesn't work every time but I have been able to get to 100% a few times. This expirement was performed on Vegan tab and Pershoot's February 18th kernel.
Weird... Mine is doing this too (vegan rom). My battery life is excellent but I'm still obsessing over that last 3%... At least its good to know is not just me.
Has anyone found a fix yet? I'll probably try draining the battery and charging it; we'll see what happens.
adampdx said:
Success! Sort of. I'm experiencing the same issue, but I've been able to get the battery to display 100% but charging it up to full, unplugging and using for a few minutes and then plugging the tablet back in. This trick doesn't work every time but I have been able to get to 100% a few times. This expirement was performed on Vegan tab and Pershoot's February 18th kernel.
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Corresponding values Volt-percent are hard coded in software (100% - 4.2V per cell).
Trying to top off your battery, charging circuit may malfunction and battery may be overcharged. Anything more then that and lipo (battery) will degrade chemistry very rapidly.
97% is about 4.15 - you are not losing much capacity, but your battery will hold much more cycles in a long term run.
Mine used to charge up to about 96%, now it never goes above 94%. I'll try wiping battery stats in CWM and see if that changes.
Took the plunge and rooted my bolt on Saturday following the guide in this forum using adb. All was ok, no custom Rom, just rooted. Battery seemed to be about the same. Put the phone on charge Saturday night and was fully charged Sunday. All working as it should until Monday morning. I got the phone off of the charger and battery(2750 ma) was only14%. I freaked a little and charged the phone on the way in to work. The charge only got to around 34% and would discharge very fast when unplugged. I had read somewhere to cycle power while charging to correct errors in the reporting of battery levels, so I tried that and got different numbers every time, but not able to get a full charge.
To make a long story short, I could not get my batteries ( stock or extended) to charge. I tried imosys (forgive me if the name is wrong) on the stock Rom and even flashed the Mr2 radio and installed das bamf ginger remix without any luck. Battery would not charge under any condition. Woke up to a dead phone this morning and had to install the other battery to get the phone un rooted.
The phone is now charging as it should with both batteries.
Any ideas why the phone would not charge?
Also used 4 different chagers during the process.
you should try calibrating the battery
since you have root, you can download and run BatteryCalibration by marosige (app author shows as NeMa in the market). simple app, instructions on the launch screen.
Don't you have to have 100% battery to calibrate?
I could not get the batteries to full charge.
The Batteries were definitely discharging faster than the charger could maintain, or there wasn't any charge applied to batteries at all.
I've had mine charge at a glacial pace before and discharge so fast you could watch the percentage numbers drop just holding it in your hand for 60 seconds. Personally, I don't call a phone charged if it's on. Turn that badboy off and make sure fast boot is off as well. Even with ROMs and kernels that charged horribly, turning that thing off put juice in it in a hurry. I never had any luck getting any BAMF ROM to charge quickly, no matter the kernel I used. (I tend to use the same kernels with the same versions of android. Ziggy's for Froyo, dreamkernel for GB.) Both of those have proven to charge nicely, even if I'm wirelessly tethering the thing. I don't know what the big deal is with battery calibration and all that. I only had quirky battery charging right after I made the mistake of wiping my battery stats. Same thing happened with my dInc. I wouldn't wipe battery stats unless I had a VERY good reason, and swapping between my 1300mAh and 3500mAh battery all the time in my dInc wasn't nearly a big enough reason.
The phone was off when I put it on the charger Sunday night, and no battery left on Monday morning.
Is there a way to "undo" a bad battery calibration?
I am asssuming that when you flash a new kernel or a rom that that resets everything, At least it seems that way when I unrooted the phone.
I will probably try rooting again when I have a little time to mess around with it.
dbjones59 said:
The phone was off when I put it on the charger Sunday night, and no battery left on Monday morning.
Is there a way to "undo" a bad battery calibration?
I am asssuming that when you flash a new kernel or a rom that that resets everything, At least it seems that way when I unrooted the phone.
I will probably try rooting again when I have a little time to mess around with it.
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Just being rooted should have zero effect on battery charging. Next time you root, do a Nandroid backup before you flash anything (ROM, Radio, or Kernel). That's standard practice for pretty much anyone that regularly flashes.
I'd re-root, nandroid, then flash whatever ROM you want....Some of the older GB Sense kernels had a "slow charging" bug, which has since been fixed. Check out the Kernels post on the dev board, the newest kernel has fixed the slow charge bug.
Alright, before you tell me to remove batterystats.bin and move along read this carefully.
I've had my HTC Legend for about 8(?) months now. Around the same time, my mum also bought one. I rooted mine, flashed CM 7.0.0, up to the newest nightly now. She left it as she got it, only upgraded to Froyo when the update came out. Everything is working great, except for the battery statistics.
Around 4 months ago my mother first complained about her battery not charging to 100%. It got worse over the weeks, and the battery level also started dropping faster and faster. It has gotten to the point where, when she gets it off the charger in the morning, it's around 52% (Even though it's been charging for forever, and should theoretically easily be on 100%). After about 5(!) minutes of using the phone, it will have dropped to a 2% battery. Battery life, however, is hardly suffering. She can just walk around with a 2% battery for the rest of the day. Obviously the batterystats are totally ****ed up. After 2-3 months my phone started doing the same, except it does it less severe. I can only charge to 50~60% as well too.
Around this point, I started looking around, and found about how android saves it's battery levels. I rooted and flashed my phone, and using fake flash, I booted into Clockwork recovery, mounted /System (S-on phone, can't edit system when phone is on, still no s-off for hboot 1.01..) and removed the batterystats.bin. I did in a couple of ways now, including the build-in option and using Android Commander. My phone, however, still won't charge past certain numbers.
Now my questions to everyone here is: Did anyone else have problems like these? Any solutions you'd like to suggest? Are batterystats/total voltage also saved somewhere else?
I'd like to point out that the battery itself is not damaged or anything. When my mum's phone had these problems, and mine didn't yet, we tested her battery in my phone, and it would charge to 100% just fine, and the levels weren't messed up.
Her problems started around the time she flashed Froyo from the official update. I can see how flashing a new rom messes up the batterystats.bin, but apparently that's not the only file being wrong?
Any suggestions are VERY welcome.
Tl;dr: Phone battery won't charge past 50% or so, battery level drops to 1% in 5 minutes.
EDIT 1: My mum send her Legend to HTC to get it ''fixed'' THREE weeks ago. She got it back today, them saying it was fixed. After a good 10 hours in the charger it still won't go to 100%, and after 30 minutes the battery levels dropped from 70% to 1%. I think it's quite shocking how HTC can say something is fixed without even trying to charge it to 100%.
you can try this, can't hurt
Turn your phone on and charge it for 8 hours or more
Unplug the charger
Turn your phone off and charge it for one hour
Unplug the charger
Turn on the phone and wait 2 minutes
Turn your phone off and charge it for one hour
Unplug, turn it on and use as normal.
Hitmax117 said:
you can try this, can't hurt
Turn your phone on and charge it for 8 hours or more
Unplug the charger
Turn your phone off and charge it for one hour
Unplug the charger
Turn on the phone and wait 2 minutes
Turn your phone off and charge it for one hour
Unplug, turn it on and use as normal.
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Thanks for the reply,
sad to say I've already followed steps like these atleast three times. Including charging without entering pin, when off, when on, etc etc. Still, thanks for the suggestion.
no such problem yet ... but i'd be interested to know if you were able to resolve it... it cant be a coincidence both you and your mom 's battery levels acting up.
QkSi1ver said:
no such problem yet ... but i'd be interested to know if you were able to resolve it... it cant be a coincidence both you and your mom 's battery levels acting up.
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Could be so, but I don't think we're the only people in the whole world to have this problem. I'll keep this thread updated with any information I might stumble across and any other solutions tried. If anyone could tell me where the maximum values for the battery are stored in android it'd be great, seeing how deleting the batterstats.bin file didn't help, there must be another file in android tracking battery..
Hi,
so you're not alone. My Legend is showing the exact same symptoms.
I bought my Legend used via ebay and the seller told that the battery won't fully charge. No problem i thought, just buy a new battery.
Even with the new battery it won't charge more than 60% and it decreases to 10% in 5 minutes.
Just had a test. Even with 60% power at the beginning and 10% after 5 minutes it still was working for 80 hours!
unfortunately i don't know when the probs started to occur. My legend is also with the official Froyo flashed.
regards
Mario
DRAGandDROP said:
Hi,
so you're not alone. My Legend is showing the exact same symptoms.
I bought my Legend used via ebay and the seller told that the battery won't fully charge. No problem i thought, just buy a new battery.
Even with the new battery it won't charge more than 60% and it decreases to 10% in 5 minutes.
Just had a test. Even with 60% power at the beginning and 10% after 5 minutes it still was working for 80 hours!
unfortunately i don't know when the probs started to occur. My legend is also with the official Froyo flashed.
regards
Mario
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Everyone seems to have this problem since Froyo. HTC fixes it by replacing the motherboard, which basically means they replace 90% of the phone... So basically, there is no real fix around. :/
seem like hardware fault..
kmc30 said:
seem like hardware fault..
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Could be so, but it seems strange as the problem starts occuring after flashing to froyo. [Even though going back to eclair doesn't seem to fix it..]
I'm on my second LTE (first one hard bricked due to the downgrading of firmware plague).
I'm having strange behavior in the charging of my LTE. When I put the phone on charge mode (computer or wall charger)
the phone will jump to full charge within a few minutes no matter what level of charge the phone had when I plugged it in.
It didn't start out this way when I originally got the phone. The charging process took the anticipated amount of charge to get
to the fully charged state. Now whenever I plug it in to charge it takes only a matter of minutes for the phone to say 100% charged.
It is actually not fully charged but is showing that it is. If I go to TWRP 2.2.2 recovery it shows the actual charge level of the phone for a
little while and then TWRP will jump to show it at 100% charged also.
When I got the LTE from the sprint store and the service person went to activate it, it had the flashing charging light.
He charged it for a few minutes and the charging light became steady. He then went on to activate the phone. Luckily,
he was cool and didn't accept any updates and i found it had the 1.12.0000 hboot. COOL! So I ran home and rooted the phone and fed
the lazy panda. Everything was cool for a while.
I have been running several roms (MikLatTE, MeanRom, OMJ's, and Chaos) and the problem is consistent across them all. I didn't realize that you weren't supposed to calibrate the battery. I had done this several times on my OG. I had installed the battery calibration tool for root from the market and I ran it, and it seems that the problems started shortly thereafter. Battery life has been pretty poor ever since then (16-18 hours with moderate use) where I used to be able to go a couple of days on a single charge. Other than battery and the 3g disconnect issue (that everyone seems to have) the phone is awesome.
I've wiped everything except the internal storage to no avail, and without the ability to wipe the battery stats in recovery, I am lost as to what to do next. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Hardware 003
ROM: Meanrom 4.6
Firmware 1.22.651.3 (haven't upgraded to the new firmware due to my previous experience - should I do this????)
S-off, hboot 1.12.1111, 1.05.11.0606 radio, 2.45.003 PRI
You shouldn't have a problem upgrading your firmware, but its probably not gonna help your battery situation. It is recommended to have the latest radio and firmware with the newer ROMs.
Sent from my EVO using xda premium
dwmartin6341 said:
I'm on my second LTE (first one hard bricked due to the downgrading of firmware plague).
I'm having strange behavior in the charging of my LTE. When I put the phone on charge mode (computer or wall charger)
the phone will jump to full charge within a few minutes no matter what level of charge the phone had when I plugged it in.
It didn't start out this way when I originally got the phone. The charging process took the anticipated amount of charge to get
to the fully charged state. Now whenever I plug it in to charge it takes only a matter of minutes for the phone to say 100% charged.
It is actually not fully charged but is showing that it is. If I go to TWRP 2.2.2 recovery it shows the actual charge level of the phone for a
little while and then TWRP will jump to show it at 100% charged also.
When I got the LTE from the sprint store and the service person went to activate it, it had the flashing charging light.
He charged it for a few minutes and the charging light became steady. He then went on to activate the phone. Luckily,
he was cool and didn't accept any updates and i found it had the 1.12.0000 hboot. COOL! So I ran home and rooted the phone and fed
the lazy panda. Everything was cool for a while.
I have been running several roms (MikLatTE, MeanRom, OMJ's, and Chaos) and the problem is consistent across them all. I didn't realize that you weren't supposed to calibrate the battery. I had done this several times on my OG. I had installed the battery calibration tool for root from the market and I ran it, and it seems that the problems started shortly thereafter. Battery life has been pretty poor ever since then (16-18 hours with moderate use) where I used to be able to go a couple of days on a single charge. Other than battery and the 3g disconnect issue (that everyone seems to have) the phone is awesome.
I've wiped everything except the internal storage to no avail, and without the ability to wipe the battery stats in recovery, I am lost as to what to do next. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Hardware 003
ROM: Meanrom 4.6
Firmware 1.22.651.3 (haven't upgraded to the new firmware due to my previous experience - should I do this????)
S-off, hboot 1.12.1111, 1.05.11.0606 radio, 2.45.003 PRI
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1. Charge over night with the phone on, then go through the whole day until the phone dies on its own, dont charge it or turn it off until it dies. this will help calibrate the battery. what may be happening is that the phone doesn't know the minimum voltage of the battery since you used the app so it is reporting the battery wrong.
2. absolutely update your firmware. i recommend the bootloader method.
3. also, HOW DID YOU GET A FEW DAYS ON A CHARGE? 16-20 is like a very very good day for me. multiple days is out of the question haha. do you like never use your phone? lol
edit: tell me if that works for you
PhxkinMassacre said:
1. Charge over night with the phone on, then go through the whole day until the phone dies on its own, dont charge it or turn it off until it dies. this will help calibrate the battery. what may be happening is that the phone doesn't know the minimum voltage of the battery since you used the app so it is reporting the battery wrong.
2. absolutely update your firmware. i recommend the bootloader method.
3. also, HOW DID YOU GET A FEW DAYS ON A CHARGE? 16-20 is like a very very good day for me. multiple days is out of the question haha. do you like never use your phone? lol
edit: tell me if that works for you
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The battery level dropped quite quickly the first two hours (-20%). I at 14.5 hours right now with 24% left.
I'll let it go completely dead before I restart or plug in. PS. I updated the firmware and radios, and all is well with that.
I have searched the forums but not found a thread which is similar to my problem.. I know there are battery drain issues with wifi etc but this is wierd and only started happening a few days back.
Basically i plug phone in to charge and it charges completely normally and quickly as it used to but only charges up to about 68/70% then it basically stops charging any higher, LED still red, charging display over battery still there. Turning phone off, rebooting, unplugging and plugging charger back in all makes no difference!
Any ideas what could be the cause of this? how to resolve?
I'm on stock JB, using the official wall charger and USB cable and i made sure the battery was full when i updated to JB as well.
Try a different battery, these are getting to the point where some will start to fail, six month warranties on batteries for a reason.
Well i have a £1.99 spare battery in atm as i run the original battery completely flat today. Seriously though be surprised if battery fail after 3/4 mths - never had battery dying issues on previous phones i've had until they were a good 2/3 years old.. Always a first though LOL
Its like the battery is saying its fully charged at 70%, now its completely flat i will charge it overnight with the phone off to full (if it gets there) and see if is resets the battery callibration or something.
Try to wipe battery stats via cwm recovery/advanced.
ohyesman said:
I have searched the forums but not found a thread which is similar to my problem.. I know there are battery drain issues with wifi etc but this is wierd and only started happening a few days back.
Basically i plug phone in to charge and it charges completely normally and quickly as it used to but only charges up to about 68/70% then it basically stops charging any higher, LED still red, charging display over battery still there. Turning phone off, rebooting, unplugging and plugging charger back in all makes no difference!
Any ideas what could be the cause of this? how to resolve?
I'm on stock JB, using the official wall charger and USB cable and i made sure the battery was full when i updated to JB as well.
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if you are rooted than download batterycalibration and untick 100% charge and click recalibrite and leave the phone on charge and it should charge up nto 100%
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ration&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
Shery4life said:
if you are rooted than download batterycalibration and untick 100% charge and click recalibrite and leave the phone on charge and it should charge up nto 100%
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ration&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
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This app just wipes battery stays, so you can do same by going to cwm/advanced/wipe battery stats.
jnr21 said:
This app just wipes battery stays, so you can do same by going to cwm/advanced/wipe battery stats.
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It has nothing to do with wiping battery stats. I think Kangburra is right...
UPDATE.
Shamed to say that i am not rooted yet... I have been there and done all that on my old phone ZTE Blade, but i really like the added functions that TW brings and don't suffer much in the way of anoying redraws or lag etc (although i do feel that TW could be optomised alot better along with better RAM Management)
I was going to at least root to sim unlock but got a sim free unlocked phone so had no need, then other stuff i wanted to do like freeze samsung apps etc is all possible without root and i've not come across that "I" need root at the moment.. was going to for APPS2ROM but i got no need to free up space yet.
Cheers for the suggustions though - I have that battery callibration app already (from old phone days) obviously don't work though.
Anyway - I am monitoring battery atm but it seems that running the battery completely flat until it turned itself off and charging overnight with battery off has resolved this issue - maybe this reset the battery stats and recalibrated it.
Its back to normal now, charges upto 100% as normal!! Fingers crossed this was just a blip