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
Firepac said:
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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Well... I reciece my extended battery from assesoryswap.com today. Its the 3500 mah.. i put it in today at 1:30 p.m. at 72% and i havent charge it yet. Im gonna let it die and charge it all night and give u guys an update tomorrow and let u know how much life i get out of it.. until tomorrow. Later....
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I can't wait to get mine in on Friday. Hopefully it works just as good. Although I only paid 10 bucks so what's to be expected.
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Ok. I took the phone off the charger at 7:10am and it started with a 96% and 70% 12:37 pm , now its 9:52 and i still have 51% left of battery time... Im guessing this was a great investment. Mine u. I had wifi and Bluetooth running from 7:45 am until 5:30 pm ,those are my working hours.. The only thing i change is my phone brightness, because i know that runs down a battery for sure. Im freaking amazed..
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Extended battery's are awesome...sure you have to sacrifice size, but not that much....but its well worth it.
Looking at your battery stats will be a thing of the past.
And the car charger, I don't even know where I left it at
E3D comes off the charger at 830am
I have everything on, all full time..Gps get used about 1 to 2 hours worth every day ,wifi,4g,bluetooth,auto bright is off and brightness is on max,3 apps updating every hour,150 text,3 hours more or less talk time,moderate to heavy internet use with 4g..
When I get home at night about 9pm I have About 20 to 30% left
On the weekends I don't use the phone as much only on talk time.
I unplug from charger on saturday 7am and by sunday night i have 80% left
4000 mah seido
I just received my extended battery any tips for first use of it. Do I need to wipe battery stats? As I understand all you do is put it in the phone as soon as you get it and then drain it completely then charge it to 100% unplug take battery out then repeat until you take it out put it back in and it reads 100% immediately, is that correct?
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I just received my extended battery any tips for first use of it. Do I need to wipe battery stats? As I understand all you do is put it in the phone as soon as you get it and then drain it completely then charge it to 100% unplug take battery out then repeat until you take it out put it back in and it reads 100% immediately, is that correct?
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I think you have to wipe your battery stats, but first let it drain it completely. If you are rooted use the current widget while it is in charge, and when ONLY this widget shows to you 100%, then from Rom Manager boot to recovery (do not unplug the phone), then wipe the battery stats from there, reboot the phone, and when it goes to 100% again, then unplug the phone. I use the stock battery and the battery lasts for 30 hours, having the data always on, calls around 1 hour, screen time around 3.5 hours. Its not bad at all i think.
Antonios76 said:
I think you have to wipe your battery stats, but first let it drain it completely. If you are rooted use the current widget while it is in charge, and when ONLY this widget shows to you 100%, then from Rom Manager boot to recovery (do not unplug the phone), then wipe the battery stats from there, reboot the phone, and when it goes to 100% again, then unplug the phone. I use the stock battery and the battery lasts for 30 hours, having the data always on, calls around 1 hour, screen time around 3.5 hours. Its not bad at all i think.
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you must be in an area with kick-ass signal strength. I am always barely hovering above 0 bars and get like 16 hours of normal (heavy) use and can get 24 hours out of it if I mellow out data use, screen on auto brightness, wifi off, bluetooth off, 4g off, toggle mobile data off when I know I won't use it for a while, disable background data and syncing.
Shoot I was lucky if I got 8 hrs of light use on my stock battery.
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I bought 2x Galilio 2000mAh Batteries. I recommend you stay away from these. 100% charge @7am, using the phone once to make a 2 min call and to check face book 3 times. Battery was dead at 5pm. Everything except for mobile data was turned off. Screen at 40% brightness. Garbage.
Maybe I've done something wrong but last night this new battery drained completely. I followed my instructions in the last post. Wiped battery stats when the app said 100% and not before. My phone has now been off the charger for 30 mins and I've already lost 12% I wasn't using my phone I was outside mowing my lawn. This is the 3500mah battery from handheld
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Nice!
Very Useful post good job guys! I have the Otterbox defender so im stuck with a standard size battery. I will get a 2000MAH today. However I use Virus Rom and there is the battery saving mode built in and man it rocks! I get up at 8 am and by time I am home around 9 ish 10 ish I am still with about 30-40% and I am a pretty heavy user. I recommend virus rom for battery saving.
ultra78721 said:
Extended battery's are awesome...sure you have to sacrifice size, but not that much....but its well worth it.
Looking at your battery stats will be a thing of the past.
And the car charger, I don't even know where I left it at
E3D comes off the charger at 830am
I have everything on, all full time..Gps get used about 1 to 2 hours worth every day ,wifi,4g,bluetooth,auto bright is off and brightness is on max,3 apps updating every hour,150 text,3 hours more or less talk time,moderate to heavy internet use with 4g..
When I get home at night about 9pm I have About 20 to 30% left
On the weekends I don't use the phone as much only on talk time.
I unplug from charger on saturday 7am and by sunday night i have 80% left
4000 mah seido
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bahaha. i have the same battery. i dont look at the usage stats either... ever. i unplug the phone at 6 am in the morning, go to work, where i get HORRIBLE reception, use my phone a lot throughout the day, and usually don't have to charge it till mid afternoon the next day.
BOSS
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Very Useful post good job guys! I have the Otterbox defender so im stuck with a standard size battery. I will get a 2000MAH today. However I use Virus Rom and there is the battery saving mode built in and man it rocks! I get up at 8 am and by time I am home around 9 ish 10 ish I am still with about 30-40% and I am a pretty heavy user. I recommend virus rom for battery saving.
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imagine......... virus rom...............
with the seidosupersex4000
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Linophryne said:
I bought 2x Galilio 2000mAh Batteries. I recommend you stay away from these. 100% charge @7am, using the phone once to make a 2 min call and to check face book 3 times. Battery was dead at 5pm. Everything except for mobile data was turned off. Screen at 40% brightness. Garbage.
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not surprised....
thats not a whole lot bigger than the stock one bruh. lol
if you are gonna spend the moneys you might as well go balls out right?
seido... u mirin??
I take my previous statement about this battery back. I've had my screen on watching and downloading 3d movies all day and just now it hit 10%. Screen on the whole day. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005G6571U/ref=mp_s_a_2?qid=1315691427&sr=8-2 this is the battery I bought this is the first day it can only get better from here.
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Not to get off topic, but do they make a full body hard case that will fit the phone since the battery sticks out?
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Yes they do @seidio.com
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Yea he has a good point
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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?
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.
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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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sounds like a godsend, not a problem.
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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"?
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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
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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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Screenshot of when the phome died. Now charging. As you can see it never hit 0
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FESCSteve said:
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.
MikeyMike01 said:
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?
Entropy512 said:
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.
I got my S2 a few days ago and flashed Cf-Root and the latest checkrom a couple of days ago. I knew battery life was a big issue with S2 so i thought i'd check how mine was performing.
I left the phone charging through the night and after unplugging the battery is down to 80% after just 5 hours. What makes things worse is that the phone has been unused for about 95% of that time. All i've done is send one SMS and flick through my settings a couple of times.
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Display being 44% is puzzling since its only been on 30 minutes at about 50% brightness. Android OS is 39% and when clicking on that it says it has been used just 22 minutes (CPU total).
I a real S2 and Android noob so i really have no idea whats going on. This cant be normal surely?
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I got my S2 a few days ago and flashed Cf-Root and the latest checkrom a couple of days ago. I knew battery life was a big issue with S2 so i thought i'd check how mine was performing.
I left the phone charging through the night and after unplugging the battery is down to 80% after just 5 hours. What makes things worse is that the phone has been unused for about 95% of that time. All i've done is send one SMS and flick through my settings a couple of times.
Display being 44% is puzzling since its only been on 30 minutes at about 50% brightness. Android OS is 39% and when clicking on that it says it has been used just 22 minutes (CPU total).
I a real S2 and Android noob so i really have no idea whats going on. This cant be normal surely?
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Your display has used 44% of the power used = 20% total so your display in five hours has used about 9% of the battery .
Search all the battery posts and read them for clues .
Start with Better Battery stats thread .
better battery stats .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
You also probably have a load of stuff connecting in the background .
jje
Try siyah kernel 2.1.1 version. Its been the best for me
I've installed Better Batter Stats although i dont really know how to use it and interpret the information. I've included some random screen captures in case they're important.
Heya, I see that you have WiFi on pretty much and that's quite a battery drainer. It shifted my battery consumption from 1-3% while sleeping to a whooping 25+% (about 6-8 hours of sleep)... make sure you turn off wifi and data services when you're not actively using your phone
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Heya, I see that you have WiFi on pretty much and that's quite a battery drainer. It shifted my battery consumption from 1-3% while sleeping to a whooping 25+% (about 6-8 hours of sleep)... make sure you turn off wifi and data services when you're not actively using your phone
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Hi,
If i turn off wifi and data when not actively using my phone wont i stop receiving various updates and such? Is it normal for people to have turn off wifi and data when not using the phone?
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Hi,
If i turn off wifi and data when not actively using my phone wont i stop receiving various updates and such? Is it normal for people to have turn off wifi and data when not using the phone?
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Yeah, but you can get them when you use your phone again. I can't speak for everyone but I never have wifi on while my screen is off, it wastes battery and I don't have a social life/need to keep my Internet on
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After doing some reading one thing that may be causing this is not calibrating my battery.
When i received the phone it came without about 60% of charge so i just plugged it straight in to my PC figuring i'll let it charge to full while i play around on it. Unless i'm mistaken this was a bad thing to do?
I've downloaded Battery Calibration from the market and i'm currently waiting for the battery to charge to 100% before running it. Hopefully it'll help things.
Goooober said:
After doing some reading one thing that may be causing this is not calibrating my battery.
When i received the phone it came without about 60% of charge so i just plugged it straight in to my PC figuring i'll let it charge to full while i play around on it. Unless i'm mistaken this was a bad thing to do?
I've downloaded Battery Calibration from the market and i'm currently waiting for the battery to charge to 100% before running it. Hopefully it'll help things.
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The best way to calibrate the battery is to actually charge to 100% (make sure the phone is off) then unplug the battery for about 90+ seconds, then plug it bin and use your phone normally until the battery is depleted to 3-7% then charge fully. BTW I HIGHLY doubt that's the PROBLEM.
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The best way to calibrate the battery is to actually charge to 100% (make sure the phone is off) then unplug the battery for about 90+ seconds, then plug it bin and use your phone normally until the battery is depleted to 3-7% then charge fully. BTW I HIGHLY doubt that's the PROBLEM.
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So once i've calibrated the battery and find that that isn't the problem how do i go about investigating what is the problem? I'm far too much of a noob to work it myself
I'm considering flashing back to stock firmware and seeing what happens with that.
Reading numerous threads on these forums I've found out that there is absolutely no need to calibrate the battery in SGS2 with any external programs / processes. The battery calibrates and maintains itself during its lifetime (something about a controller chip being integrated inside them).
If I may recommend, flash SiyahKernel , apply the battery optimizations through CWM (install zip from sdcard), and just work normally with the phone for a few days, making sure you remove all unnecessary applications and turning off data services whenever you don't use the phone.
And if you still get about a day of battery with moderate usage, it's very good for you... the stock battery just doesnt live that long with the powerful hardware that is in the phone
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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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.
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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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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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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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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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This phone has infuriated repeatedly. I was content on not ever leaving Jelly bean (kind of), I was happy when root was discovered, but what I loved the most was the fact that I could go 3 full days without the need to recharge,. Now, I seem to be charging the phone 3 times a day. I am probably exaggerating but still, none-the-less it isn't good.
My battery life status is NEVER correct. Then, when I usually get around 52% the phone says it is out of charge and completely shuts off. I have a rooted device and use Tasker and other similar apps heavily.
I emailed the Huawei directly about a possible defective phone and they pretty much blew me off.
Never again will I go with the Huawei company. So much fail.
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This phone has infuriated repeatedly. I was content on not ever leaving Jelly bean (kind of), I was happy when root was discovered, but what I loved the most was the fact that I could go 3 full days without the need to recharge,. Now, I seem to be charging the phone 3 times a day. I am probably exaggerating but still, none-the-less it isn't good.
My battery life status is NEVER correct. Then, when I usually get around 52% the phone says it is out of charge and completely shuts off. I have a rooted device and use Tasker and other similar apps heavily.
I emailed the Huawei directly about a possible defective phone and they pretty much blew me off.
Never again will I go with the Huawei company. So much fail.
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I had an LG phone in the past with a similar problem. At first, I thought it was a battery problem. The phone reports 100% after 45min. When the charge drops to 80%, I get a warning that the phone is out of charge. I got a new battery, charged it elsewhere and used it on the phone. Again, same problem. I was really baffled. I reflashed the stock rom because I thought it was a software issue. No luck. I then threw away the phone, forever oblivious of the cause !!
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I had an LG phone in the past with a similar problem. At first, I thought it was a battery problem. The phone reports 100% after 45min. When the charge drops to 80%, I get a warning that the phone is out of charge. I got a new battery, charged it elsewhere and used it on the phone. Again, same problem. I was really baffled. I reflashed the stock rom because I thought it was a software issue. No luck. I then threw away the phone, forever oblivious of the cause !!
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I'm thinking it is a defective battery. However the HAM2 doesn't allow the battery to be swapped out. I am so frustrated I want to toss this phone in the trash too.
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I'm thinking it is a defective battery. However the HAM2 doesn't allow the battery to be swapped out. I am so frustrated I want to toss this phone in the trash too.
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It sounds like the phone itself isn't reading the battery correctly. The calibatration is off.
I'm still new at this, but may be others on this forum have some experience with what I'm about to suggest.
- Have you tried backing up your phone's data and then doing a factory reset. Once the factory reset is done, just use the installed apps and UI for a few days including checking to see what apps are running in the background and on startup while you draining the battery completely to dead, then leave the phone to charge to 100% over night. That most likely will unroot the device too, but you can always just install TowelRoot and root it again like I did and then install SuperSU, BusyBox and Terminal. Now see what your battery does. Its not a guarantee its going to fix it, but many manufacturers do suggest factory reset.
I'd take it back to factory default, don't install anything and run it a full charge cycle down to cutting itself off, charge it, and check it the 2nd time.
Sounds like you have some sort of massive wake lock going on.
I've had mine since early July...no issues. NOT rooted, 100% stock rom.
Something similar happened here (twice). Yesterday, after 48+ hs of continuous use, the battery reached 15%, and suddenly dropped to 0%. "your phone will shot down in 30 seconds" and it turns off. And another issue, it seems not read the consumption when connected to mobile data connection. What can happen here?
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I have had my phone since the release and still get 2 days out of it on normal power profile. turn your stuff off on protected apps and if still nothing return under warranty from Huawei.
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I have had my phone since the release and still get 2 days out of it on normal power profile. turn your stuff off on protected apps and if still nothing return under warranty from Huawei.
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Something similar happened here (twice). Yesterday, after 48+ hs of continuous use, the battery reached 15%, and suddenly dropped to 0%. "your phone will shot down in 30 seconds" and it turns off.
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I thought that was some sort of safety feature built into Android to save enough battery for emergency calls?
I still have my System UI crashes, and on top of that, I get some gapps package crash error and a few others. I'm waiting until after my last final exam on Monday to reset the device and see if those still occur.
I was at 4% last night then I plugged in. you using 2amp charger?
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It appears it now works correctly since I started using the app DS BATTERY SAVER PRO.
Thanks for the update. So curious can you now disable/uninstall the app and see if the problem is gone. Still feeling it is some battery calibration got screwed up.