I am on stock rom, codeworkx kernel, and root with super one click. I don't remember since when, I noted that when I plug the phone to charge at night, I would see 60 or 61% battery. Coming from captivate, I was impressed with GSII's battery life. However, I began to suspect something was wrong when it's 61% every evening. I tried recalibrating, erased battery stat with CWM, and manually deleted batterystat.bin with root explorer. Now my battery status shows 100% all the time. Anyone have any suggestions?
I would start with "don't delete files from the system partition", and if you do always back them up first.
To recalibrate your battery you may need to run your phone to 100% dead, this may be hard without the meter. Then, with the phone still off, charge to full. See if that does the trick.
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I am on stock rom, codeworkx kernel, and root with super one click. I don't remember since when, I noted that when I plug the phone to charge at night, I would see 60 or 61% battery. Coming from captivate, I was impressed with GSII's battery life. However, I began to suspect something was wrong when it's 61% every evening. I tried recalibrating, erased battery stat with CWM, and manually deleted batterystat.bin with root explorer. Now my battery status shows 100% all the time. Anyone have any suggestions?
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where are you always seeing the 100%? At the top, in the status bar? If so, that may be an issue with the theme you are using. What do you see when you go into the Settings menu, "About Phone", "Battery Status"?
Reflash your ROM.
Deleting batterystats.bin shouldn't do anything, neither should recalibrating, unless you somehow screwed up the ROM our your phone is defective.
There are NO provisions for loading battery history into our fuel gauge.
hobbs said:
I am on stock rom, codeworkx kernel, and root with super one click. I don't remember since when, I noted that when I plug the phone to charge at night, I would see 60 or 61% battery. Coming from captivate, I was impressed with GSII's battery life. However, I began to suspect something was wrong when it's 61% every evening. I tried recalibrating, erased battery stat with CWM, and manually deleted batterystat.bin with root explorer. Now my battery status shows 100% all the time. Anyone have any suggestions?
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sounds like a godsend, not a problem.
jsmith8858 said:
where are you always seeing the 100%? At the top, in the status bar? If so, that may be an issue with the theme you are using. What do you see when you go into the Settings menu, "About Phone", "Battery Status"?
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It's 100% on the status bar, about phone battery widget
Entropy512 said:
Reflash your ROM.
Deleting batterystats.bin shouldn't do anything, neither should recalibrating, unless you somehow screwed up the ROM our your phone is defective.
There are NO provisions for loading battery history into our fuel gauge.
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I did not want to reflash the rom but I may have
mrRobinson said:
sounds like a godsend, not a problem.
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perpetual battery would be nice, wouldn't it
Depending on the scheme that Samsung uses, it could have been a botched battery calibration. If you started the calibration process with a partially discharged battery (say at 60%), it may think that is a full charge. So everything that is above 60% will be reported as 100%. Again, it all depends on how they calibrate the indicator and how you performed the calibration.
Just a thought.
My battery guage is still screwy. I tried unNamed 1.03, 1.04, ad now serendipity. It never shows below 50%. The phoe just dies without low battery warning. When I plug in the charger, battery shows that it's dead. It takes few mins to charge so that I can reboot the phone. But when it reboots, it shows 50% battery. I can not trust the battery guage. Is the battery bad? It does not seem to be related to roms since it seems to happen with all 3 roms.
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Defective. Time to exchange?
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Defective. Time to exchange?
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It's clearly not defective.
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Depending on the scheme that Samsung uses, it could have been a botched battery calibration. If you started the calibration process with a partially discharged battery (say at 60%), it may think that is a full charge. So everything that is above 60% will be reported as 100%. Again, it all depends on how they calibrate the indicator and how you performed the calibration.
Just a thought.
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STOP BLINDLY APPLYING HTCISMS TO SAMSUNG PHONES.
Our fuel gauge is specifically designed NOT to require calibration. Diddling with batterystats.bin does NOTHING except for possibly causing the software to hit the chip with way too many resets, freaking it out.
Our fuel gauge chip has ONE input to it - reset. That's it.
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My battery guage is still screwy. I tried unNamed 1.03, 1.04, ad now serendipity. It never shows below 50%. The phoe just dies without low battery warning. When I plug in the charger, battery shows that it's dead. It takes few mins to charge so that I can reboot the phone. But when it reboots, it shows 50% battery. I can not trust the battery guage. Is the battery bad? It does not seem to be related to roms since it seems to happen with all 3 roms.
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Flash back to 100% stock - and if it continues, you have a defective phone.
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It's clearly not defective.
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Any suggestion on how to fix this? This is freaking annoying. Any help would be appreciated
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Something is clearly odd... I disagree with Mikey on the defective issue. I am beginning to think something is wacky with your phone.
Install CurrentWidget - while the current display won't work, it WILL show you the raw battery voltage. When charging/discharging, what does the raw battery voltage say compared to the percentage charge?
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Something is clearly odd... I disagree with Mikey on the defective issue. I am beginning to think something is wacky with your phone.
Install CurrentWidget - while the current display won't work, it WILL show you the raw battery voltage. When charging/discharging, what does the raw battery voltage say compared to the percentage charge?
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I've had all sorts of weird battery things happen on the Captivate and SGS II. Random jumps, staying at 100% indefinitely (but still dying).
Unless it happens all the time it's not defective. At least no more defective than the rest of Android.
MikeyMike01 said:
I've had all sorts of weird battery things happen on the Captivate and SGS II. Random jumps, staying at 100% indefinitely (but still dying).
Unless it happens all the time it's not defective. At least no more defective than the rest of Android.
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Well, without actual displays of the battery voltage (use CurrentWidget...) it's impossible to tell, but behavior like that can only be explained by a hardware defect. Either the MAX17042 is defective, or the I2C bus is glitching.
The SoC display is pretty much piped straight from what the MAX17042 reports - if it's wrong, the chip itself is reporting wrong.
General rule - if battery is above 4.0v and displays only 50%, even after a full fuel gauge reset (shut down, pull battery, let it rest a few minutes, reinsert and turn back on), there's something wrong with the hardware.
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STOP BLINDLY APPLYING HTCISMS TO SAMSUNG PHONES.
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Wow - what an attitude. First of all, this is the first time I have commented on any thread about battery meter schemes. I've not applied any 'HTCISMS' before to be able to stop. Secondly, stop using all caps. It's pretty poor netiquette.
Having been blindly slapped in the face by such a rude comment, could you care to tell us what scheme Samsung uses to identify SOC? I know you contribute a lot, but I can't imagine that you've done so with such a crappy attitude.
I've also said nothing about "Diddling with batterystats.bin". I'm not sure what you were smoking when you posted that, but I'd taper off.
Hope you have a better day.
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Wow - what an attitude. First of all, this is the first time I have commented on any thread about battery meter schemes. I've not applied any 'HTCISMS' before to be able to stop. Secondly, stop using all caps. It's pretty poor netiquette.
Having been blindly slapped in the face by such a rude comment, could you care to tell us what scheme Samsung uses to identify SOC? I know you contribute a lot, but I can't imagine that you've done so with such a crappy attitude.
I've also said nothing about "Diddling with batterystats.bin". I'm not sure what you were smoking when you posted that, but I'd taper off.
Hope you have a better day.
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You'll have to forgive Entropy512... he's accustomed to the Infuse forum where you have to literally scream over the crowds of morons that think they know everything.
h hahah you guys crack me up, your phone is defective bud taker back.
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I was playing a game when my phone crashed and locked up. I had to restart my phone and upon restarting my battery is now at 20%. My battery was originally at 85% and I was playing the game for less than 5 minutes. Why did I lose so much battery power in such a short time and is it harmful for my battery? The name of the game is E Warrior
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I was playing a game when my phone crashed and locked up. I had to restart my phone and upon restarting my battery is now at 20%. My battery was originally at 85% and I was playing the game for less than 5 minutes. Why did I lose so much battery power in such a short time and is it harmful for my battery? The name of the game is E Warrior
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Your battery did not actually lose all that at once, all that happened is either a change in the way battery fuel gauge is bring reported or a corruption of the battery stats being kept.
Either way a couple charge cycles and the gauge reporting will get back on track.
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dayv said:
Your battery did not actually lose all that at once, all that happened is either a change in the way battery fuel gauge is bring reported or a corruption of the battery stats being kept.
Either way a couple charge cycles and the gauge reporting will get back on track.
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Not even a couple of charge cycles. The fuelgauge should "converge" within 1-2 hours. To make it converge faster:
Turn off phone
Pull battery for 5-10 minutes to put it in a "relaxed" state (no recent heavy charge/discharge)
Put it back in and power on
Also, what was the raw battery voltage? It's impossible to tell whether 85% was a false-high or 20% was a false-low without knowing the raw voltage.
I have left my sgs off for a few hours now and it hasn't made a difference. I just got home and plugged it into the charger and I will wait and see what happens...
I've had the same thing happen to me this morning.
Phone was Idle, full after being charged overnight.
I was checking the web to make sure I had all my ducks in a row before
loading up the Unammed 1.04 ROM.
Tried to wake up the phone, nothing.
Tried holding the power button a little longer, nothing.
I plugged it in and tried holding it longer yet, finally.
Phone crashed itself but hard.
Woke it back up with a heavy dent in the available battery.
Dropped something like 60% over the course of an hour or less?
I was just about to panic.
Added some more juice, while I made my backups and copied in the new ROM.
I'm not sure what that was all about.
I've had this happen recently...
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I had this happen once. I plugged it in after the battery level plunged some 50% after an app crash. But as soon as I plugged it in, it seemed like it started correcting itself. The charge level would go up by a couple of % points every minute and converged to the right value within an hour or two.
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Happened to me last night. Went from 30% to 12% after a crash/restart. You can see the small bit of red on the right.
So does anyone know for sure if the battery actually drained that fast or is it some kind of glitch?
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So does anyone know for sure if the battery actually drained that fast or is it some kind of glitch?
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It is not physically possible for the battery to drain that much that fast. Now in an extreme battery failure you could lose that much capacity, but that were happening your battery would be pretty much shot. don't worry that is not happening to you.
The fuel gauge reporting just got reset and if it was off before it will be closer now. If it is off now, it will work itself back out very shortly on its own.
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I would agree with the above. It was annoying but I'm not yet very.concerned. if it happens again or becomes a regular thing then I'm going to be a bit annoyed.
I got my sgs2 2 weeks ago, today I noticed something weird:
I unplugged my phone at 9:15am (100% battery), and at 2:45pm it was at 10%. I am not sure why it died that fast.
I am using some app's which need to be synchronized, but I dont think they can cause this. (FB, Email, Weather). please advice.
How about this usage after installing a new Rom and a theme.
I do think it's the theme I have applied, but it gets too hot too even not being used. I'm not sure what the Rom is, I am using the one the phone comes with.
My phone did this last night for the first time, Ive been catching dolphin browser using a lot of resources. I forgot to kill it last night, battery dropped 50% in 2hrs.
I have removed the theme I had applied and it came to normal already. But I am concerned why it did happen, is it not supposed to support themes like GoLauncher?
Only worry if the problem persisted. Use the battery then charge it full. You likely won't have any issues.
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gadget069 said:
My phone did this last night for the first time, Ive been catching dolphin browser using a lot of resources. I forgot to kill it last night, battery dropped 50% in 2hrs.
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I noticed the same thing with Dolphin browser and if you go into settings and activate the Google or Facebook accounts to be used in conjunction with Dolphin that it will put your phone into overdrive and heat it and drain the battery in about 3+ hours...So I would avoid using this if you like using your phone the whole day!
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Only worry if the problem persisted. Use the battery then charge it full. You likely won't have any issues.
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Is expected to have the phone hot during charging? I am charging it now and it is getting hot even though I am not using it. I am really worried about this.
Please let me know if this is a normal behavior or if it's not.
gacuna said:
Is expected to have the phone hot during charging? I am charging it now and it is getting hot even though I am not using it. I am really worried about this.
Please let me know if this is a normal behavior or if it's not.
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There's already threads discussing safe charging temps. 50°+ celcius is bad and 70° is deadly to the battery. Phone can handle much more. Download a battery temperature app.
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Hey everyone,
I've been playing around with some ICS roms (Energy and revolution roms) amd noticed that the battery life is AMAZING on idle/standby, but when using the phone, the battery drains VERY fast.
Are all the ics roms like this atm? Are you guys getting similar drains? I'm going to try another rom and see what happens in the meantime.
Here's a screen cap of my battery life.
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i completely agree.i'd like to post in development but can't as yet(forum rules).i'm running arhd 2.2.1.s-off.my battery drains out approximately 6 and a half hours on moderate use(music etc.)i wonder if it's due to the stock kernel or as u said if ics is like this.apart from that the rom is solid and very ice.
Same here, the only problem im having with the ics leak is the battery drains extremely quick. And I have my brightness all the way down.
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sherman8or said:
Same here, the only problem im having with the ics leak is the battery drains extremely quick. And I have my brightness all the way down.
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I'm on the Leak ICS and I haven't seen that problem... I think it's improved my battery since I've updated.. before I would have to swap batteries half way through the day.. now I just charge when I get home.. and I work 12 hours a day.. Monday to Saturday.
After resetting battery stats this is what I saw and was impressed with. I have email set to auto sync from 7am to 6pm for work along with my gmail account, facebook set to sync once a day as I don't really care to be notified every time someone posts. Screen brightness set to auto, however this phone did not see sunlight on this day so I'm sure the screen was never maxed out.
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I'm on the Leak ICS and I haven't seen that problem... I think it's improved my battery since I've updated..
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Ditto. The first day I was on the ROM I noticed a huge increase in battery life.
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After resetting battery stats this is what I saw and was impressed with. I have email set to auto sync from 7am to 6pm for work along with my gmail account, facebook set to sync once a day as I don't really care to be notified every time someone posts. Screen brightness set to auto, however this phone did not see sunlight on this day so I'm sure the screen was never maxed out.
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How did you reset the battery stats? I've got 4EXT installed as my recovery, and DID notice a "Wipe battery stats" option. Is that the same thing?
justin0025 said:
How did you reset the battery stats? I've got 4EXT installed as my recovery, and DID notice a "Wipe battery stats" option. Is that the same thing?
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it is
Ill try wiping my battery stats, but i been getting really bad battery life since upgrading. down from 2-3 days to 6-12 hours.
edit: forgot to mention, i can't charge via USB anymore, as it says it does not provide enough power. It used to work just fine with same cable, same usb port on my computer at work. Now it can't charge, have to bring wall charger to work.
auiotour said:
Ill try wiping my battery stats, but i been getting really bad battery life since upgrading. down from 2-3 days to 6-12 hours.
edit: forgot to mention, i can't charge via USB anymore, as it says it does not provide enough power. It used to work just fine with same cable, same usb port on my computer at work. Now it can't charge, have to bring wall charger to work.
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wow, that sucks. Personally I would wipe / reflash the ruu. then slowly add applications back. Not sure what apps you have running, I have about 150 installed, however I limit what can sync. there is a paid app called better battery stats that can help identify rouge apps too.
auiotour said:
Ill try wiping my battery stats, but i been getting really bad battery life since upgrading. down from 2-3 days to 6-12 hours.
edit: forgot to mention, i can't charge via USB anymore, as it says it does not provide enough power. It used to work just fine with same cable, same usb port on my computer at work. Now it can't charge, have to bring wall charger to work.
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Wow, with stock GB on TMO I got maybe 7 hours max. With stock ICS I got over 12 hours and was very pleased. I just flashed a yesterday, so I'm not sure what I'll get now, but from the drain it looks like about 20 hours or so with moderate usage. I suspect my normal day will be OK (about 16 hours).
I'm not having any problems with charging on the leak or NRG.
What does wiping batter stats do? Is it more like just resetting a timer or does it do something more like recalibrate your battery so the phone doesn't shut down your phone prematurely due to a perceived lack of juice? (when there is actually still more juice remaining)
Edit myself: according to other posts, a Google engineer said it's a myth that this does anything useful.
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What does wiping batter stats do? Is it more like just resetting a timer or does it do something more like recalibrate your battery so the phone doesn't shut down your phone prematurely due to a perceived lack of juice? (when there is actually still more juice remaining)
Edit myself: according to other posts, a Google engineer said it's a myth that this does anything useful.
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It is supposed to delete the battery statistics so that the device builds up an accurate battery stats file. If the stats file had statistics for a smaller battery (or poorer battery), it could be telling the OS that it was out of power when in fact power was still available. I can't speak to how well it works, but I do it whenever I flash a new ROM.
lamenramen said:
What does wiping batter stats do? Is it more like just resetting a timer or does it do something more like recalibrate your battery so the phone doesn't shut down your phone prematurely due to a perceived lack of juice? (when there is actually still more juice remaining)
Edit myself: according to other posts, a Google engineer said it's a myth that this does anything useful.
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Actually, I am not sure about that myth anymore. I had CWM installed and I flashed 4EXT. My battery died within 4 hours and I barely used it. I was at 55% and I had everything turned off as well as the screen, 5 minutes later, I was at 40%. The next day, I fully charged it to 100%, booted into recovery, and wiped the battery stats. My phone lasted for 17 hours without even charging it in the day.
I guess wiping the battery stats does work?
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Actually, I am not sure about that myth anymore. I had CWM installed and I flashed 4EXT. My battery died within 4 hours and I barely used it. I was at 55% and I had everything turned off as well as the screen, 5 minutes later, I was at 40%. The next day, I fully charged it to 100%, booted into recovery, and wiped the battery stats. My phone lasted for 17 hours without even charging it in the day.
I guess wiping the battery stats does work?
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Thank you! MrMako debated this with me... I called it the BEST DAMN PLACEBO EFFECT EVER... cuz it works
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Thank you! MrMako debated this with me... I called it the BEST DAMN PLACEBO EFFECT EVER... cuz it works
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haha. Well I can confirm that it works. Oddly, it happened when I flashed the new recovery, but overall, the battery is ALOT better than ever!
You know It's weird. Battery life hasn't been great on the custom ROMS the stock RUU seems to have the best battery life.
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You know It's weird. Battery life hasn't been great on the custom ROMS the stock RUU seems to have the best battery life.
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Ditto--stock has the best battery life for me as well. Cache wiped, super wipe, dalvick wiped. everything wiped.
Left my phone charger in the car last night. Before I went to bed my phone was at 3%. I expected for it to turn off at any min so I just laid it next to my bed. Woke up 7 hours later to my phone at 3%.... I received 4 text during that time, but was not read until morning.
Stock amaze no root or s-off with ics
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You know It's weird. Battery life hasn't been great on the custom ROMS the stock RUU seems to have the best battery life.
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Tell the rom developer - I have gotten surprisingly little feedback on mine.. I tried flashing a few roms before I chose a base to work with, and the only one that didn't have any errors in the logcat, didn't have any wakelock issues, was Android Revolution HD. I've picked out every htc app I could constantly checking both logcat for errors and wakelock issues from rogue htc apps looking to keep the phone from deep sleep- and all is well.
But amazingly today someone using my rom(pdcrzylazy) posted this article on an easy flash that is supposed to "ten fold" battery life- I researched it, I made sure it flashed well.. and have had immediate big differences, even under heavy use.
There is specifically one process on how it handles memory that I think makes the biggest difference- but it HAS made a big difference! It flashes perfectly and I was able to confirm the settings took effect..
If anyone tries it you can run this command in terminal on the phone before and again after and you'll see the settings took.
Code:
sysctl -a| grep vm
The output is crazy long, so if you wanted to you can run it as an adb command - "adb shell sysctil -a > /whereeveryouwantit/name.txt"
Just like the title says, after 5 hours of light usage my prime factor for battery drain is CellStandby at 42% (the phone itself was down to 70%).
Anyone experienced this so far? I'm aware that LTE is rather demanding but it can't be that bad vs HSPA which drained next to nothing on standby
astralmind said:
Just like the title says, after 5 hours of light usage my prime factor for battery drain is CellStandby at 42% (the phone itself was down to 70%).
Anyone experienced this so far? I'm aware that LTE is rather demanding but it can't be that bad vs HSPA which drained next to nothing on standby
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It's a bug in the software.
Thanks, I did search (albeit quickly) in the forums here and didn't see any mention of it.
I did see an article about the international model being affected by a similar glitch so.. all models would have this ?
I've had the phone for 5 days and gone through maybe 8 batt cycles. I'm not getting more than 2hrs screen time on any cycle. This is stupidly horrible battery life. There has got to be something severely wrong. I don't do much with the phone. I can't even with less than 2hrs to work with. Overnight batt loss is maybe 8%.
Any help is ENORMOUSLY appreciated.
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Thanks, I did search (albeit quickly) in the forums here and didn't see any mention of it.
I did see an article about the international model being affected by a similar glitch so.. all models would have this ?
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I believe all have this bug. It's just that, a bug. And there is a fix, but I'm too lazy to apply it. (Assuming it works to fix the bug in the U.S. variant software)
I'm on HSPA with TMO but it seems to depend on reception more than anything in my experience. Here's my log from today:
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a bug as in it isnt actually draining the battery or it is really draining it?
I'm in the same boat, and there is no way that the standby is just a calculation error. If I sit and use my phone continuously after charging I can get 2 hrs of screen time while the battery drops from 100% to ~65%. During a normal day of light use I completely drain the battery and my screen time might be 1h50m at most. So something is definitely up - although I'm also getting terrible signal strength, and I think that might have something to do with it. I've searched every thread and have made sure that I have no rogue apps or processes consuming the battery either.
gary
edited - I take it back, after restoring my phone last night I have gotten 2h25m screen time after 11h45m since charging and I'm at 17%. So, doing better but not great by any stretch.
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a bug as in it isnt actually draining the battery or it is really draining it?
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I read that it is simply a graphical error. It should be reading 3.4mw but it's set to 34 so it's showing far more use than it really is
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Hi guys
This seems to be an issue on all SGS3s. I have both the LTE and international model and they both show high cell standby. Check this thread out for more info on the i9300 forums to understand why its showing so high which is actually a calculation error
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722
My i747 is rooted so I decided to make a backup and flash the zip fix they provided and seemed to work. But the risk is inherently yours if you want to try it. Its just an xml file so I wasn't worried trying it in my case. I am more sending the link so you can see why it reports using so much battery
My cell standby battery usage went from over 50% to 5%
Basically, cell standby is not really killing your battery, it overestimates the power usage as being 10X more than what it is from my understanding
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cloudyphiz said:
I'm in the same boat, and there is no way that the standby is just a calculation error. If I sit and use my phone continuously after charging I can get 2 hrs of screen time while the battery drops from 100% to ~65%. During a normal day of light use I completely drain the battery and my screen time might be 1h50m at most. So something is definitely up - although I'm also getting terrible signal strength, and I think that might have something to do with it. I've searched every thread and have made sure that I have no rogue apps or processes consuming the battery either.
gary
edited - I take it back, after restoring my phone last night I have gotten 2h25m screen time after 11h45m since charging and I'm at 17%. So, doing better but not great by any stretch.
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Yes yes yes! This is exactly my experience too! There must be something wrong if all others report 4+hrs screen time and we can barely break 2hrs. I'm in San francisco. My previous atrix "4g" would do at least 3hrs during my day to day.
Please, help. I'm really sad. Was really looking forward to at least an extra 30min over the atrix in my day to day.
So is the battery actually draining that fast with the cell stand by issue... Or us the battery actually higher charge than reporting?
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"I've had the phone for 5 days and gone through maybe 8 batt cycles. I'm not getting more than 2hrs screen time on any cycle. This is stupidly horrible battery life. There has got to be something severely wrong. I don't do much with the phone. I can't even with less than 2hrs to work with. Overnight batt loss is maybe 8%.
Any help is ENORMOUSLY appreciated."
and
"I'm in the same boat, and there is no way that the standby is just a calculation error. If I sit and use my phone continuously after charging I can get 2 hrs of screen time while the battery drops from 100% to ~65%. During a normal day of light use I completely drain the battery and my screen time might be 1h50m at most. So something is definitely up - although I'm also getting terrible signal strength, and I think that might have something to do with it. I've searched every thread and have made sure that I have no rogue apps or processes consuming the battery either.
gary
edited - I take it back, after restoring my phone last night I have gotten 2h25m screen time after 11h45m since charging and I'm at 17%. So, doing better but not great by any stretch."
Are exactly the same thing I'm also experiencing. I've come close to taking it back and exchanging it for another one but I'm not sure if this is how all of the US versions of the S3 are. Been reading through threads here and posted on a few of them and it looks like short battery life is a pretty common problem. I hope someone comes up with a fix pretty soon before I run out of time to exchange or return it.
dante2512 said:
I read that it is simply a graphical error. It should be reading 3.4mw but it's set to 34 so it's showing far more use than it really is
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You are close, but not exactly right.
When writing the software one of the developers entered 34mw for how much the battery should drain at standby instead of 3.4mw. A simple typo, but im sure if there isnt a fix already that there will be soon :]
Advantageous said:
You are close, but not exactly right.
When writing the software one of the developers entered 34mw for how much the battery should drain at standby instead of 3.4mw. A simple typo, but im sure if there isnt a fix already that there will be soon :]
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There's a fix that's available on this forum but that only fixes the reporting. It doesn't fix the poor battery life.
BonesHopkins said:
"I've had the phone for 5 days and gone through maybe 8 batt cycles. I'm not getting more than 2hrs screen time on any cycle. This is stupidly horrible battery life. There has got to be something severely wrong. I don't do much with the phone. I can't even with less than 2hrs to work with. Overnight batt loss is maybe 8%.
Any help is ENORMOUSLY appreciated."
and
"I'm in the same boat, and there is no way that the standby is just a calculation error. If I sit and use my phone continuously after charging I can get 2 hrs of screen time while the battery drops from 100% to ~65%. During a normal day of light use I completely drain the battery and my screen time might be 1h50m at most. So something is definitely up - although I'm also getting terrible signal strength, and I think that might have something to do with it. I've searched every thread and have made sure that I have no rogue apps or processes consuming the battery either.
gary
edited - I take it back, after restoring my phone last night I have gotten 2h25m screen time after 11h45m since charging and I'm at 17%. So, doing better but not great by any stretch."
Are exactly the same thing I'm also experiencing. I've come close to taking it back and exchanging it for another one but I'm not sure if this is how all of the US versions of the S3 are. Been reading through threads here and posted on a few of them and it looks like short battery life is a pretty common problem. I hope someone comes up with a fix pretty soon before I run out of time to exchange or return it.
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Should we start a new thread? I've been posting in all the various battery threads to avoid getting yelled at for starting a poor battery issue thread. You're the fifth person to note the same issue. I too restored my phone this morning and it seems to be doing better, but still nowhere near what others are reporting. Also not nearly on par with my previous Atrix.
Maybe we have valid reason to start a new thread?
I applied the fix but still have poor battery life. Just as bad if not worse than my epic 4g.
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SOLUTION!
Steps to solve the problem (only for rooted smartphones).
Download the updated file (510kb) from MediaFire.
http://www.mediafire.com/?x7lhcpjjr9pg4mb
Put the file on microSD card or internal storage.
Reboot your phone into ClockWork Mod (CWM) Recovery mode.
Choose "Install zip from sdcard" and select the downloaded file.
Reboot your smartphone.
Link to Article:
http://www.mobilenapps.com/articles/2901/20120630/samsung-galaxy-s3-battery-drain-issue-reasons.htm
Link to XDA thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722
CDMA people make sure you post your carrier when discussing battery life. GSM battery life for me hasn't been too bad. 10 hours constant use or so on wifi and around 6 hours or so on hspda. Standby time is very good. Especially for stock kernel.
I'm sure we can get some more once the LTE switch gets added.
That fix is just for the calculation of cell standby drain, not for how much it is actually taxing the battery. Several people on AT&T seem to have a real problem with excessive battery drain in standby, and (for me at least) it seems like it's happening when I have a poor signal. Unfortunately, that is mostly all of the time.
I found this old thread, and the APN listed there seems to help. It's just an interim solution though and I have to imagine AT&T will have a software fix for us soon.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1338109
gary
My battery is quickly dropping according to my battery stats it's android usage. I did a search but only information for the SGS3 pops up. Anyway I can find out what's causing it?
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I'm having a very similar issue. I thought that screen was suppose to be the largest drain, but Android System appears to be consistently 55%+ of the battery used.
mine usually doesnt go above 20%..
its on screen percentage that is killing me lol
I wonder what's causing it.
My main usage on my S4 is the screen.
LOL Tap in the Android System in that list and see what all is listed under it. If you are running everything that Samsung added to the TouchWiz like the air view and eye tracking and such you will have the System draining your battery. Find out what you will actually use and not use and what is more for play turn off and what you will use regularly leave on. My guess is most ppl will have most if not all of it off on a normal basis
My S4 i got today from VZW i had some gestures on charged it to only 74% by noon (had to go out) and 5 hours later with just under 3 hours of screen time i was at 63% battery still and screen was 65% in the list with Android System at 12% Also screen was at 35% though not at brightest level.
Eric
Mine is showing only 5% over today. Screen is my biggest drain (as expected). Does it remain high usage after reboot?
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Eric214 said:
LOL Tap in the Android System in that list and see what all is listed under it. If you are running everything that Samsung added to the TouchWiz like the air view and eye tracking and such you will have the System draining your battery. Find out what you will actually use and not use and what is more for play turn off and what you will use regularly leave on. My guess is most ppl will have most if not all of it off on a normal basis
My S4 i got today from VZW i had some gestures on charged it to only 74% by noon (had to go out) and 5 hours later with just under 3 hours of screen time i was at 63% battery still and screen was 65% in the list with Android System at 12% Also screen was at 35% though not at brightest level.
Eric
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Oh ok. That's what I was confused about. It was fine yesterday and then today not so much lol. But I did disable some of the gestures to see if that makes a difference. Thanks
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a little update. I have seen this as well now but only after charging to full. It was not doing it yesterday cause i didn't get a chance to charge it to full until later last night. I was in and out since picking it up yesterday morning and never got it past 80%. So here is what i found.....
Once full and I unplug the phone (from the wall not usb charging obviously) the Android System is in the 50%+ of battery consumption in just a min or 2 from unplugging and seems to stay there. So after a few times of letting it get to 96% or so and recharging to check after an FDR I decided to just unplug the phone and reboot right away, the Android System never gets above 9% in the battery stats list when i reboot immediately after I unplug the phone.
Anyone with a reason why after charging, something in the list (and it's a HUGE list of apps at that) making up Android System is hanging after a full charge cycle? I mean technically, it's not a bad thing to reboot your phone each day but should you HAVE to do it?
Eric
Click on the android OS. Is it keeping your phone awake for an extended period?
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dropbox.com/s/h9tc5vgwb67gded/2013-05-24%2016.20.25.png
Not sure if it'll show up, but it's eating up 65% of my battery :/. Not sure what's causing it.
Hethor said:
dropbox.com/s/h9tc5vgwb67gded/2013-05-24%2016.20.25.png
Not sure if it'll show up, but it's eating up 65% of my battery :/. Not sure what's causing it.
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My screen is at 70% and i dont know why. Its not even bright.
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My screen is at 70% and i dont know why. Its not even bright.
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Unless you are seeing your battery yield horrible life this is completely normal. Because its telling you a percent of the loss, for example your battery is at 90% so its showing you the break down of the 10% loss. So your screen is 70% of that batter loss. The screen is always going to be in the top. Thats good honestly that shows that you dont have any apps sucking down your battery more then the most power consuming hardware (screen)
My Android usage is high too. 60% is weird. I've frozen alot of stuff and only a few gesture options enabled. Would like to figure this out myself
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Evocm7 said:
My Android usage is high too. 60% is weird. I've frozen alot of stuff and only a few gesture options enabled. Would like to figure this out myself
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After 3 wipes of device and also an sd card wipe I was still having android system double the power consumption then the screen. I wiped the phone and then didnt log into google and just used the web broswer and surfed for 40 mins and then checked the stats, android system was still the number one even with 40 on screen minutes. At this point I was done with this phone
I just went to verizon, the manager first tried to tell me it was because I have location settings on, then I told him that I had the issues before I turned them on. Then he tried to tell me it was because im not using power saving mode. I had to almost fight for the exchange, he finally pulled out his phone and googled it and saw that this is a known issue and then tried to tell me that because its known that I shouldnt do the exchange and wait for an update, I said no. After 2 hours I finally walked out with a new s4, I will see how this goes.
I too am having the same problem
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Wow. While this issue is somewhat annoying in the fact that something is there somewhere doing something in the background, it is not something that can be hardware related. It is just something enabled somewhere that we havent pinpointed yet. Regardless, I get great battery life and have just learned to deal with it. I know when some more roms come out and more things are figured out, it will be fixed. Its nothing to go ask for a replacement for. Not trying to sound like an a$$. Just saying
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tell me this then, if its software then we should all have the same issue, because we are all on the same build (minis the rooted / rom installed) but of the 5 devices that I have looked at only 2 have this drain? I had done a factory wipe and then DIDNT log into google, or samsung so I had only the original installed apps, and I still had the issue,
So the only real way to test it I guess is we need to have someone that confirmed doesn't have this issue they will need to make a ODIN restore and then someone with the issue needs to restore with that, then that will eliminate any possibility of hardware problems.
I see your point. I did find something in better battery stats though. On partial wake lock, there is a process called audioout_2 which had used almost 45 minutes of cpu. Clearly, by the name, it has something to do with sound output and I then realized that touch sounds were enabled on my keyboard. Hopefully disabling that helps. It may not be the whole problem but I'm willing to bet it has something to do with it.
Edit: I checked the cpu time after I turned off keyboard sounds typed alot of random letters for about 20sec then turned sounds back on then typed again for 20sec. Checked cpu time on audioout_2 and it increased that same amount of time like I thought. So I'm going to see if it helps.
Edit again: my android system usage is slowly dropping. From 67-63% in the last 20 minutes. Won't know how much it impacts it until a recharge.
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Do you guys with the high android battery usage have the Verizon ongoing connect to wifi notification? When I had it my Android system was high now that I managed to take it away is gone down a lot
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Hello guys,
As the title says, I too am running into some battery trouble (shocker, I know). I'd like to point out that first I did my research in the HOW+ forums + faqs. So, here's the situation:
Today with 80% of battery i played sonic dash for 45min. After that It shows 40% left. I shut down the phone. Put it in the freezer for 5mins (why not?) then turned it on again. Then it shows less than 16% at startup.
Two weeks earlier i used Navigon gps for 1hour on a full battery, after that i had 50% left. Restarted the phone and it showed 40% and afterwards started going down fast as hell in 1 hour without me turning the screen on. Seriously, at the end I had the 4 low battery alerts in a quick row (14%, 9%, 3%, 1% and then shutdown in 5-10minutes).
I bought the phone in march and used it heavily at first. I was all about thd games (which all push the phone to its limits) + occasional big downloads + uzipping heavy files. Then later i calmed down and mostly used the phone in the evenings before sleep: loads of browsing + youtube + emulators (which, all three combined, don't drain the battery that much even after a long time).
The phone has been rooted for 1 month. I'm still on stock rom. I greenified most of the processes (like every apps and games except viber, tango, whats app skype, line, twitter, facebook, vine) and froze (with titanium backup) google+, gmail,chrome, htc tips, play books, play movies, play kioske, play music, htc tips, htc watch.
Here is my question : do you guys think i should try some battery recalibrating or should replacing the battery do the trick? Or maybe there's nothing to do and the one x+ is just doomed in that area.
In one month I am going to Japan for a couple of weeks and I'll be needing a lot of my HOX+ so I sure wouldn't want to spend money on a new phone (with the next gen devices right around the corner) or on a pricey mugen external juice case. Any piece of advice or info is welcome.
Thanks in advance for your time guys.
Hey dude,i had similary problems with my battery.i tried everything from flashing special customs to battery doctor apps/widgets stock rom.but nothing solved the problem.only one thing,a replacement part for 23€ from ebay.the battery its selfs.
Sorry for my english,i'm german and mine is not so good.
Hope it is useful for u
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KickYaAzz said:
Hey dude,i had similary problems with my battery.i tried everything from flashing special customs to battery doctor apps/widgets stock rom.but nothing solved the problem.only one thing,a replacement part for 23€ from ebay.the battery its selfs.
Sorry for my english,i'm german and mine is not so good.
Hope it is useful for u
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Danke.
So you say you had the battery replaced. May I ask if you did see a significant difference once the new battery was installed? Also im curious, after how many months did you replace it and how heavy were you using your phone before?
Again, thank you, much appreciated.
I've had similar issues with my battery. It has definitely gotten worse as time goes by. I did however just get a response from HTC about what to do about the quick battery drain when my phone hits 15%.
This is what they said:
I apologize for this behavior that you are having with the battery on your HTC One X+. The culprit in this situation is not the battery, it is the charging logic. Therefore, I advise you to recalibrate the battery/charging logic with the following steps:
1. Charge the device for at least 10 minutes
2. With the device truly OFF while still being plugged into the wall outlet, push in and hold volume up and volume down AND power button, for 2 minutes.
3. Let go. Device will boot up, and battery/charging logic are re-calibrated.
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I cannot test this as the current ROM I have can only do a soft reboot, thus I cannot shutoff my device. Hope it helps at least a little.
jogirider said:
I've had similar issues with my battery. It has definitely gotten worse as time goes by. I did however just get a response from HTC about what to do about the quick battery drain when my phone hits 15%.
This is what they said:
I cannot test this as the current ROM I have can only do a soft reboot, thus I cannot shutoff my device. Hope it helps at least a little.
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Thank you, I will try this method and report.
Rapid drain from 15% -> happens most of the times to EVERYONE, its not individual phone problem..
So unless HTC's calibration method doesn't help just need learn to live with it :/
ivicask said:
Rapid drain from 15% -> happens most of the times to EVERYONE, its not individual phone problem..
So unless HTC's calibration method doesn't help just need learn to live with it :/
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I suffer a lot from this issue (rapid drain from 15%->0%).
I think the battery capacity is measured/reported wrongly by the OS, because battery stats app measures the battery at 1832mAh (fully charged), not 2100 which is supposed to be...
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I had this problem and I left the phone at the service for a warranty change of the battery.
They've changed it and I must admit that the problem has been resolved. I can now see how the battery drains step by step: 15, 14, 13, 12, 11 etc. It does seem to last a bit more now, maybe half an hour.
geojoking said:
I had this problem and I left the phone at the service for a warranty change of the battery.
They've changed it and I must admit that the problem has been resolved. I can now see how the battery drains step by step: 15, 14, 13, 12, 11 etc. It does seem to last a bit more now, maybe half an hour.
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I shattered my phone screen, and send it to service, and i told them about battery problem, now they replaced battery, and earpiece speaker as i had low volume, will see how it works after i get it back in 3 days.
The battery bug was introduced in the only update for HOX+, everything was fine before the update. It starts mostly after a few days without a reboot. One time I've had theoretically more than 40% battery level, while in the next hour my phone wouldn't even start because of empty battery. Recently I was goofing around with Tasker. When the battery level showed 20%, my phone shutdown.
Did anyone test the recalibrate thing? Can someone explain me how am I supposed to hold 3 buttons for 2 minutes ?
So got my hox+ from HTC back now, with battery replaced, and now its working properly, listening music since 14% -> 1% for like 45 mins and turning screen here and there to change track, and phone turned OFF after being few minute on 1%.
Not to mention battery lasts about 20-30% longer now, hope it holds like this
ivicask said:
So got my hox+ from HTC back now, with battery replaced, and now its working properly, listening music since 14% -> 1% for like 45 mins and turning screen here and there to change track, and phone turned OFF after being few minute on 1%.
Not to mention battery lasts about 20-30% longer now, hope it holds like this
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Thanks for the info!!
Did you relock the bootloader/return to stock before sending it in, if it was unlocked?
And did the relocked bootloader raise any issues with the warranty?
Candlemass said:
Thanks for the info!!
Did you relock the bootloader/return to stock before sending it in, if it was unlocked?
And did the relocked bootloader raise any issues with the warranty?
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I returned to stock ofcourse, bootlaoder says RE-LOCKED, no issues.
Hi everyone,
I have exactly the same problems that what has been told before... (Very bad battery life, specially when I'm using 3G data... and when the battery is under 20%, the phone stops completly only few minutes after...)
(My HOX+ is on ViperX+ but before I flashed this rom the problem was the same...)
I tried to do a recalibration of the battery but it didn't solved the problem...
I also tried the HTC instructions listed on the topic before, but it absolutly changed nothing.
My HOX+ is still on waranty but I ordered a new battery to change it by myself (I don't want to change the rom and relock the phone to send it on warranty, I prefer to do it by myself...), and the battery (annonced as genuine) cost about 26€ on Ebay delivered ($35 approximatly)...
I will come back here to tell you if it solved the problem!
ivicask said:
So got my hox+ from HTC back now, with battery replaced, and now its working properly, listening music since 14% -> 1% for like 45 mins and turning screen here and there to change track, and phone turned OFF after being few minute on 1%.
Not to mention battery lasts about 20-30% longer now, hope it holds like this
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Let's talk about this in the next month...
Small update about this.
I contacted HTC support and told them about this bug. Of course one of a consultant's suggestion was "factory reset" and "repair it", as always . But he suggested to wipe android cache via recovery. I did this 10 days ago with no hope this will help, but so far it is working. It seems as if the battery percentage goes quicker up when charging and the level shows now correct values. I will wait one or two more weeks to see if this really solved the issue. So far, it might have been simply luck .
I asked HTC's consultant also about the "hold three buttons while charging to calibrate battery" trick. He said that this trick is not present in their fix database. Weird.
I found this trick on another android website
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ht...g-red-while-charging-rapid-battery-drain.html
It looks as if it is not a safe solution?