I've noticed this a lot...
Last night I went to bed and the battery life on my phone said 90%. I left the phone on and went to bed. When I got up this morning at 5:00 am and woke the phone up out of sleep mode it said 60%. I shut down the phone and rebooted and it read 80%. I can replicate this at any time. If I reboot the phone after it's been sitting a while it will read 20% higher every time. As I type this with moderate use this morning, it is at 70%
Anyone know the cause or fix?
I'm also running the latest 2.3.4 update and my phone is stock.
SMH.......... Read the forum please. You are going to get some SERIOUSLY bad feedback from posting this.
prj71 said:
I've noticed this a lot...
Last night I went to bed and the battery life on my phone said 90%. I left the phone on and went to bed. When I got up this morning at 5:00 am and woke the phone up out of sleep mode it said 60%. I shut down the phone and rebooted and it read 80%. I can replicate this at any time. If I reboot the phone after it's been sitting a while it will read 20% higher every time. As I type this with moderate use this morning, it is at 70%
Anyone know the cause or fix?
I'm also running the latest 2.3.4 update and my phone is stock.
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I'm downgrading to 2.3.3 because of this. That's the only fix I know.
Its a known issue & the only fix I know of is going back to 2.3.3. If its a big problem you can always sbf, but I've been running this 2.3.4 & haven't had my battery die on me. You just gotta remember average battery life is about 8-10 hours with average use, but if u use your phone more then its shorter obviously. Not a problem for me personally cuz I'm usually near somewhere I can plug my phone in if I'm sure its pretty low. Hope that helps you out
prj71 said:
I've noticed this a lot...
Last night I went to bed and the battery life on my phone said 90%. I left the phone on and went to bed. When I got up this morning at 5:00 am and woke the phone up out of sleep mode it said 60%. I shut down the phone and rebooted and it read 80%. I can replicate this at any time. If I reboot the phone after it's been sitting a while it will read 20% higher every time. As I type this with moderate use this morning, it is at 70%
Anyone know the cause or fix?
I'm also running the latest 2.3.4 update and my phone is stock.
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I'm not aware the "the" battery issue on 2.3.4 stock/rooted, but I guess there is one. I too notice some fluctuating from time to time, but I don't worry about it. I will say, I've gotten into the habit of rebooting after I pull the charger cord and I'm averaging with what I consider normal use, about 30 hours per charge. And I haven't seen 20% or less battery since I learned of this little trick. With that kind of life, a little battery meter drift is not on my radar.
newskate9 said:
I'm not aware the "the" battery issue on 2.3.4 stock/rooted, but I guess there is one. I too notice some fluctuating from time to time, but I don't worry about it. I will say, I've gotten into the habit of rebooting after I pull the charger cord and I'm averaging with what I consider normal use, about 30 hours per charge. And I haven't seen 20% or less battery since I learned of this little trick. With that kind of life, a little battery meter drift is not on my radar.
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Well, I did do some searching before I posted but didn't find a whole lot on the issue. I just got the phone on Oct. 5 and by October 9 I received the OTA update so I have no comparison for 2.3.3.
I did find the trick about rebooting after pulling the charger cord. I pulled the cord last night around 8pm and as of 1:15 pm today I am at 40%.
Also, I have noticed that system rounds the battery percentage up or down for every 5% of movement. I downloaded circle battery from the market to figure this out since it reports in 1% increments. For example 80% is reported for any values betwen 75% and 85%. If the value is 86% it reports 90%.
But none of this answers why the phone reports 60% then if I reboot it jumps to 80%.
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Not battery life.
Today i noticed my battery meter has been sticking, any way to fix that? It'll drop 20% upon reboot.
Today i noticed that my battery would spike up from 95% to 100% while charging and not go anywhere in between,. Is that normal? Battery calibration app kept going off early, and then as soon as it hit 100% i unplugged it without calibrating it, and it dropped to 99%. Happened twice in five minutes.
Also, instead of using clockwork recovery, i use Battery Calibration app to wipe my batt stats.
What mV should i be on?
One last thing, how do you bump charge? And is it really that unsafe?
Nikolai2.1 said:
Not battery life.
Today i noticed my battery meter has been sticking, any way to fix that? It'll drop 20% upon reboot.
Today i noticed that my battery would spike up from 95% to 100% while charging and not go anywhere in between,. Is that normal? Battery calibration app kept going off early, and then as soon as it hit 100% i unplugged it without calibrating it, and it dropped to 99%. Happened twice in five minutes.
Also, instead of using clockwork recovery, i use Battery Calibration app to wipe my batt stats.
What mV should i be on?
One last thing, how do you bump charge? And is it really that unsafe?
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I noticed this yesterday, I had my phone plugged in and it was at 94-95% and 2 minutes later it was at 100%.
To bump charge, once your phone is at 100%, unplug your phone power it down then replug it in. Once it shows the green LED meaning 100% charged boot your phone up and keep it plugged in. Might go back to being orange saying its not 100% yet so let it get to 100%. Unplug it and replug it back in a couple times until every time you plug it in it shows green for 100%.
I would think that it would be bad for the battery if you do this every day, but I can't give a definite answer for that. I use Battery Calibration to do that too, but between today and yesterday after I flashed over the new CDMA/LTE radio leak from the Radio thread my battery life hasn't been great. Considering going back to the stock radio.
I've noticed similar things on my bolt and even my dinc. To counteract this, I stopped looking at the battery % and got battery left instead. This app tells you how much longer your battery will last in hours rather than %. I no longer freak out about my battery life, %, or what others are getting; I've never been happier.
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I've noticed similar things on my bolt and even my dinc. To counteract this, I stopped looking at the battery % and got battery left instead. This app tells you how much longer your battery will last in hours rather than %. I no longer freak out about my battery life, %, or what others are getting; I've never been happier.
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Sounds like a good idea especially for me lol. I noticed this morning that my phone was 56%, down from 74%. 18% drain over the time span of like 6-7 hours or so while I was sleeping. Not sure how good or bad that is, but for me it was just like wow.
You're being anal. Don't worry about it. Your phone is working fine. The battery level will appear to jump around a bit, especially when going on/off charger, or rebooting. Search around if you feel a need to know why.
With very light usage, I've managed to get my Evo3D to last just shy of 2 and a half days. When actually using it, it's been a bit hit or miss, some days it tanks pretty fast, other days it's done quite well. But one thing I have noticed is that sometimes, especially around the 35% range, it'll spontaneously drop 10-15% (it actually did 43% straight to 14% this afternoon). It's visible in the battery use graph as a sudden nearly vertical line. It's never happened when I had the screen on actually doing something, it just happens randomly after turning the display off. Has anyone else seen this? It's pretty confusing.
First thing is first....
Did you download spareparts and see what is consuming battery? In other words, check for a wake lock.
You have to give the battery time to get conditioned. It gets better the more you go through charging cycles. I'm at 75% after 8 hours of moderate usage and that's pretty consistent for me.
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Darineth said:
With very light usage, I've managed to get my Evo3D to last just shy of 2 and a half days. When actually using it, it's been a bit hit or miss, some days it tanks pretty fast, other days it's done quite well. But one thing I have noticed is that sometimes, especially around the 35% range, it'll spontaneously drop 10-15% (it actually did 43% straight to 14% this afternoon). It's visible in the battery use graph as a sudden nearly vertical line. It's never happened when I had the screen on actually doing something, it just happens randomly after turning the display off. Has anyone else seen this? It's pretty confusing.
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For the first week or 2, the phone has a hard time understanding how full the battery is. Try draining it down to 50% or so, and then resetting it. You'll probably see a sudden drop or rise in the battery%. Resetting it will force the issue, but it can also happen while the phone is on. That's pretty normal till the the phone "Learns" the battery.
It doesn't mean you suddenly used 15% of your battery, it would probably explode if you did that... it just means the phone re-calculated the battery's life and changed the number.
Your not alone as soon as mine hits 35 percent ill shut the screen off and here it beep at me and bang its at 14%. lol same as you.
Don't know if it will help you.
I had a similar issue as you, battery would get to around 30ish % I could turn the screen on check an email, set it down and bam 14%, and the low charge noise.
I wasn't trying to fix it, instead I was doing this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1153371
When I attempted this I had about 35ish percent battery left, following the directions my phone restarted when it came back up I got a 1% battery warning, then my phone went into emergency shut down. I thought something happened and I was going to have to return the phone. I powered it back up and it read 33%, from there on out my phone now drops a % at a time, and my battery life is as good as the other people who get phenomenal battery. I'm going on 48hours with light usage and still have 25% left. I've txt'd music, videos, nothing heavy.
Take it for what it's worth, I don't know what happened maybe the data reset, resets the battery calibration, I have no clue, all I know is what happened to my phone and the result.
So I had my GS2 fully charged last night. At about 415am I played Game Dev Story for about 30mins and went to bed. I wake up this morning at around 1030 and find my phone completely dead. Obviously this freaks me out since I just got my phone and it should not be going from 100% -> 0% in 5 hours of being idle. Now maybe I didn't turn Game Dev off properly and it was running in the background? I don't know. I got this phone last Monday and this is the fastest it has died. (Even setting this one aside, I'm extremely disappointed in the battery life). Also, I plug it in to charge after I found it dead this morning and went back to sleep. Wake up 2 hours later at 12pm and see its only charged to about 40% and the phone is really hot.
Are these normal for the GS2? It didnt get hot during previous charges (atleast I didn't notice it getting hot). Also what is the average battery life for the S2 and how long does it usually take to charge from 0-100? For some reason I feel like there is something wrong with mine and I should be exchanging it but unfortunately I did root it so undoing the whole process will take some time since I'm still waiting for the jigg.
Normal charge time from zero to full 3-4 Hours via stock charger .
Excessive battery drain multiple posts on the problem .
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I don't think anything is wrong with the battery. You can see the battery usage graph, and post if needed. And the device takes around 3 hrs 15 mins from 0 to 100% charge with AC charger.
Regards.
Hi XDA,
Ive been getting alotta help from you, great developers, and had this question
that dont think has been solved yet. (I searched for 2 days)
So my current situation is;
Im running the latest energy rom (sense 3.0) with stock kernel, (as it was recommended on the post).
After flashing custom roms, beats audio and etc via ADB, i believe my
battery stat display is not normal.
It would take at least 90~120minutes to reach 100% from 99%.
And sometimes even if I have the charger hooked up to the phone
it would still drop to 99% from 100.
I have two batteries (Stock and Anker) and tested them both.
It looks like no matter how long i charge it, as long as i have 100% or 99%
on the battery, it takes around 12minutes and 13seconds screen-on time to drain 10% of the battery. Which it was way less than i expected.
but after dropping around 68~63%, the battery seems to last longer on each
percent points.
On top of that, I think my phone is not charging anymore when I turn to power off. I can feel the phones gone cold and not charging, but the orange light is always on and never turns green for some reason.
So my question is:
IS THERE ANY SOLUTION (LIKE BATTERY CALIBRATION THAT ACTUALLY WORKS?) TO THIS? IVE READ SO MANY THREADS ABOUT THIS BUT NOTHING IS GIVING ANYBODY A CLEAR ANSWER.
I have the same problem as you. I'm on Sense 3.5 RC1.6. Infact I just restarted my amaze in hboot mode and then back into normal. My battery went from 10% to 60%. Then after like 15 minutes of usage it went back down to 10%. Also my battery drains to almost dead at about ~3 hours of screen time with moderate-heavy usage.
have you guys fully charged it ? gone into advanced in Clockworkmod and deleted battery stats?
i havent hacked my amaze but when i had my g2x after every flash i would charge teh battery to 100% then wipe battery stats x2 and then let the battery drain to 0 percent. then it should give you accurate readings
I did that but I used Battery Calibrator app from market. 2 times and discharge to 100%. Also how long should the battery last on average?
I'm runnign stock, it lasts me a day, but depends on usage. I text alot, some calls, twitter facebook, a lot of music, some FML, and some camera lasts me all day, (i charge in the morning so it lasts me a full 24 hour cycle)
Hmm seems as if my battery drains pretty fast. I timed it with medium-low brightness just leaving the screen on, with 3g and music. I get 1% per 3 minutes on. No auto-sync or background data either.
as most of people usually say i should fully drain my battery and charge til 100%,
im doing that right now.
My phone got shut off during my jelly defense stage 13 session
and plugged the phone but it didnt turn on for like 10 minutes.
so i kinda freaked out that the clockworkmod recovery that i have right now
does not support charging when the phone is not awake, but i guess the charging is really slow since i have finally turned on my phone.
im just gonna let it sit on my side table charging, and ill prolly fall asleep..
cuz im definitely not in the mood to watch LeBron James' face tonight.
I will let you guys know.
Thanks.
tofuwrice said:
I have the same problem as you. I'm on Sense 3.5 RC1.6. Infact I just restarted my amaze in hboot mode and then back into normal. My battery went from 10% to 60%. Then after like 15 minutes of usage it went back down to 10%. Also my battery drains to almost dead at about ~3 hours of screen time with moderate-heavy usage.
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i hear you.
but after searching several threads about HTC AMAZE's bad battery life,
im slowly being convinced that 3 hours of screen time doesnt sound really that
bad. lol
mine just died around 2 hrs 45 min screen time while the phone was up without a charge for 14 hours. well i guess if i start using the phone nonstop after a full charge, then maybe ill get 3 hours or more.... but still...its only 3 hours...
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so i kinda freaked out that the clockworkmod recovery that i have right now
does not support charging when the phone is not awake
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Once it`s charged make sure you flash 5.5.0.4 recovery. Using the toolkit makes that easy.
marleyfan61 said:
Once it`s charged make sure you flash 5.5.0.4 recovery. Using the toolkit makes that easy.
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thanks. will do right away.
ive overheard from someone that 5.5.0.4 is causing bootloops when flashing
other roms, but did you have any problem with this?
So I have a HTC EVO 4G and last week I got my battery to 100% and wiped battery stats using the recovery. And after that I drained the battery and recharged it to 100%. But since then my battery has been acting very wired. When I unplug it since in the morning around 7 it is at 100%. But in a matter of seconds it drops to 80%-89%. And all I have done is checked my tweets that came in when I was sleeping. I know it takes data but a 10-20% drop??? That's is just wierd. I would really appreciate if someone could help me out. My battery however does stay for a while in the 50-75 range. If I don't have anything on besides 3G which gets all my emails and tweets in, I could last in that range all day. Please help me
Like made this entire post and lost 1% battery. I still had email and tweets being pulled in. Oh and I'm running CM7.1.
km00000 said:
So I have a HTC EVO 4G and last week I got my battery to 100% and wiped battery stats using the recovery. And after that I drained the battery and recharged it to 100%. But since then my battery has been acting very wired. When I unplug it since in the morning around 7 it is at 100%. But in a matter of seconds it drops to 80%-89%. And all I have done is checked my tweets that came in when I was sleeping. I know it takes data but a 10-20% drop??? That's is just wierd. I would really appreciate if someone could help me out. My battery however does stay for a while in the 50-75 range. If I don't have anything on besides 3G which gets all my emails and tweets in, I could last in that range all day. Please help me
Like made this entire post and lost 1% battery. I still had email and tweets being pulled in. Oh and I'm running CM7.1.
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Maybe you unpluged your phone form charging too quickly. When it shows 100% in locker battery is not full yet (hence a drastic first drop). When "full" try charging for about a hour more. I had simillar issue on CM7.2 and now i charge battery until lightning in battery simbol in status bar is not present any more. Hope it helps
sounds like its the rom not the battery, i would make a backup and reflash the rom again and see if it still happens again. if it still happens then flash a diffrent rom that they have for your device.
You could try using an SBC kernel since you're on AOSP. You don't get the initial 10% drop and you get longer life in general. Your phone will not blow up on you, so don't be freaked out by the stories. At least one of those stories was from someone that didn't even use SBC. Ultimately it's your choice, but I think it's worth it.