Hey guys got an issue i've seen several people have but nothing i've read fixes mine. So here it is. My battery meter is stuck at 41% no matter what i do. I tried calibrating apps. I tried other battery widgits. I tried reloading roms and clearing battery stats in recovery and letting it run down to nothing. Before anyone asks, yes i used the stock cable in fact i used 3 different cables.
I am running 1.2 rooted with mn and no oc. Any help would be greatly appreciated
xrxfxr said:
Hey guys got an issue i've seen several people have but nothing i've read fixes mine. So here it is. My battery meter is stuck at 41% no matter what i do. I tried calibrating apps. I tried other battery widgits. I tried reloading roms and clearing battery stats in recovery and letting it run down to nothing. Before anyone asks, yes i used the stock cable in fact i used 3 different cables.
I am running 1.2 rooted with mn and no oc. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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pretty sure your in the wrong forum. this is nook tablet forum.
Does it charge and stay at 41% as if the battery is actually higher but it's showing an incorrect number? Or does it charge to 41% and then normally discharge from there? I don't really know much about this but it probably won't hurt to contact nook and ask them. You might be able to get a new one for free.
recovery, battery wipe, 1.2, you should be using a NC instead of NT
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I am currently running Das_Bamf 1.3.2 but I have heard that the problem also exists on the stock rom/hernel.
My battery percentage does not drop over time. Only after I reboot the phone does it show any change. Does anyone know how to fix it?
Try installing battery left widget. Gibes you an accurate picture of what's going on. You will have to start with a full batteryband run it all thebwaybdown to calibrate.
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I don't really want to be forced to install a widget on one of my home screens just to know what percent my battery is at. I would like to figure out why the status bar indication isn't updating. It was working when I first got the phone.
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I don't really want to be forced to install a widget on one of my home screens just to know what percent my battery is at. I would like to figure out why the status bar indication isn't updating. It was working when I first got the phone.
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I agree. I had the same problem with Das Bamf. I don't see anyone else really complaining about it and my post was basically overlooked when I asked about it in the thread for the ROM. I ended up just switching to the new version of thunder and lightning and all is well. I'll give Das Bamf a try again when it's working.
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I agree. I had the same problem with Das Bamf. I don't see anyone else really complaining about it and my post was basically overlooked when I asked about it in the thread for the ROM. I ended up just switching to the new version of thunder and lightning and all is well. I'll give Das Bamf a try again when it's working.
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are you using the extended battery? I am and I am seeing the same problems but I have flashed back to my original root stock rom with the htc kernel and still seem to have the problem. I may have to try thunder rom if the battery does work
Stock battery. I have tried a wipe and that didn't fix anything. So far I have no real idea what might be causing it since it seems to be happening on different roms including stock as well as kernels.
I was having this issue with VirusROM for the first week or more that I ran it because I didn't flash on a full charge (stupid me)... It also dropped from 100% to 90% in about 10 minutes when it did drop without rebooting - not sure if you have that problem. I resolved all of this by bump charging. There's a workaround for the CWM issue that I followed in another thread found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016508 ... ie. charge with your phone booted; reboot, charge, reboot, charge, etc. until you are at about 99% when you reboot. Then just wipe your battery stats and use like normal. I didn't think that it had worked permanently until a couple days later when my battery was recalibrated. I'm running the same kernel as those of you on Das BAMF if you didn't change it so I hope this helps you as well. Basically after I did this it only dropped 2-3% on reboots when not fully charged but I believe that is normal since it takes a lot of power to boot the phone up completely. Hope this helps.
Edit: Wanted to point out that after I wiped my battery stats I didn't reboot all the time to see if it was dropping since I figured that would affect calibration. Ran it until it died on normal use and got a lot longer battery life than stock, which makes me question as to how "accurate" it actually is after rebooting. Just a thought.
could you also just re flash on a full charge?
I don't think so, because your battery may not be at 100% if it says it is, which is why you would have to bump charge.
Ah, I see.
Well I think it worked. Thanks a ton!
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FWIW, I'm on the extended battery and stock ROM and there's no issue that I can observe in terms of the percentage not dropping/reporting properly.
Most of this stuff seems like urban legend and placebo effect to me.
Does anyone have any documented (by Google) evidence that any of this "battery calibration", "batterystats.bin wiping", "only flash roms on 100% charge" stuff is legit? If not some documentation on the OS, then some actual controlled testing with data that supports these concepts as legitimate?
I mean something that documents how batterystats.bin operates and what it controls and doesn't.
My understanding is that the batteries themselves have integrated circuits that control the battery's charge. Surely this can be communicated to the phone (how else does the phone know the voltage being supplied as it diminishes?).
Seems that an intelligently designed OS would take advantage of the battery's own reporting and just go by its charge status rather than come up with some silly scheme that involves the phone using batterystats.bin to control it; especially when, if the urban legends are actually true, that file is so easily confused and needs to be wiped so often. Gr
I see where you are coming from and agree that testing needs to be done but bump charging and deleting battery stats got my battery notification to start indicating again
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I've been using GSB for a few months now, and I haven't had any issues until recently after I installed 3.1. I did the normal drill with the rom install, dalvik wipe etc. I even cleaned out and reformatted my sd card as I like to so every few releases.
Now to the problem. My battery has been draining at an unprecedented rate recently, and frankly I don't know what else to do. I watch alot of tv shows and movies on my phone, and so I try to keep it charged as I am running these vids. Well for some reason, I will unplug the charger and even if my battery says its at 80% or so, my phone will randomly drain out and site within minutes for no apparent reason. I won't even get a low battery warning. This only happens at work, if I have my wall charger plugged in it runs fine, and my phone usually holds a charger for a good amount of time. I tried the battery data technique to no avail. If anyone has any suggestions or advice I would appreciate it very much
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I've been using GSB for a few months now, and I haven't had any issues until recently after I installed 3.1. I did the normal drill with the rom install, dalvik wipe etc. I even cleaned out and reformatted my sd card as I like to so every few releases.
Now to the problem. My battery has been draining at an unprecedented rate recently, and frankly I don't know what else to do. I watch alot of tv shows and movies on my phone, and so I try to keep it charged as I am running these vids. Well for some reason, I will unplug the charger and even if my battery says its at 80% or so, my phone will randomly drain out and site within minutes for no apparent reason. I won't even get a low battery warning. This only happens at work, if I have my wall charger plugged in it runs fine, and my phone usually holds a charger for a good amount of time. I tried the battery data technique to no avail. If anyone has any suggestions or advice I would appreciate it very much
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id download and install gsb 3.2 and do a battery recalibration and then see what happens
search battery recalibration in the market theres a great app for it
just open app wait till it beebs when at 100% and click calibrate then after like two cycles you should relly see a huge difference
if youve done that already well then idk but def. try the new update too
I have been noticing more battery usage no matter which ROM I am using. I feel as if the service has been a little whack lately. anyone else not getting good signal where they usually have before?
so as im a new user and i can't post in half of the forum, but i've still got this urgent question/ point to ask, here's my question:
i recently moved on the new 1.9.1 ressurection remix rom from the 1.3, and aswell changed my kernel to siyah, now lately my battery drains preety quick (yes i did burn it down to 0% and charged it over to 100% few times), but here's the thing, when once i had issues with screen burning 30%-45% of my battery, now it's lying low on 10%-20% while the real issue now is the "Android OS" which goes as high as 60%-70% of my battery, i've been trying to calibrate the battery and reset battery stats and discharge and recharge couple of times, but this just keeps going on... any way to solve this?
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so as im a new user and i can't post in half of the forum, but i've still got this urgent question/ point to ask, here's my question:
i recently moved on the new 1.9.1 ressurection remix rom from the 1.3, and aswell changed my kernel to siyah, now lately my battery drains preety quick (yes i did burn it down to 0% and charged it over to 100% few times), but here's the thing, when once i had issues with screen burning 30%-45% of my battery, now it's lying low on 10%-20% while the real issue now is the "Android OS" which goes as high as 60%-70% of my battery, i've been trying to calibrate the battery and reset battery stats and discharge and recharge couple of times, but this just keeps going on... any way to solve this?
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OK! I've read your situation. This is the only thing that I can recommend. Try installing a Gingerbread rom and see if the issue persists. If it does then some of your application could be the culprit behind the battery draining issue. But again, thats just a guess...And if it is one of your applications that is causing the drain then you should install bettebatterystats from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Then charge your battery to 100% and try a new calibration method, maybe you haven't heard of it. But if you charge till 100% then take out the battery for exactly 3 minutes and put it back in and power up your phone and use your phone normally as you do and then at 20% or lower go and check betterbatterystats and see what is causing the most of the battery drain.
Have a great day and good luck with the battery drain, hope this helps!!
Did you check the ROM FAQ about battery draining?
Please check it out. There is also an example of making some changes using extweaks which comes installed by default with ICS Resurrection 1.9.1.
Here is the link to FAQ.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26341532&postcount=33924
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OK! I've read your situation. This is the only thing that I can recommend. Try installing a Gingerbread rom and see if the issue persists. If it does then some of your application could be the culprit behind the battery draining issue. But again, thats just a guess...And if it is one of your applications that is causing the drain then you should install bettebatterystats from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Then charge your battery to 100% and try a new calibration method, maybe you haven't heard of it. But if you charge till 100% then take out the battery for exactly 3 minutes and put it back in and power up your phone and use your phone normally as you do and then at 20% or lower go and check betterbatterystats and see what is causing the most of the battery drain.
Have a great day and good luck with the battery drain, hope this helps!!
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i did read about the new method today, but havent had the chance to try it yet.
im not sure if it's a certain application that causes it, but in the battery stats it points out "Android OS", i've seen many galaxy nexus users complain about the same problem, even with stock kernel/roms, and galaxy S2 users that moved from gingerbread to ICS. it's logical that ICS will take more battery because of the control over multiple cpus and all this kind of stuff but im not sure how much it is about that "Android OS".
anyway ill try to have this battery calibration new method once my battery will drain out, and im probably not going to go down to gingerbread again because i already know its not gonna persist because i remmember how my phone behaved on GB and that those 2 systems work completely different and i want to solve the drain per ICS and not solve the issue by downgrading back down to gingerbread.
thank you for your time and help anyway
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Did you check the ROM FAQ about battery draining?
Please check it out. There is also an example of making some changes using extweaks which comes installed by default with ICS Resurrection 1.9.1.
Here is the link to FAQ.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26341532&postcount=33924
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thanks for the link, i haven't noticed too much i havent done yet, they poiny siyah kernel as one of the 3 good 1s that work well with the rom for better battery, and i am testing different governors, clocks and voltages but there's many options so i can't do it all in an instant so it takes time...
thanks for your help
I was really suffering from massive battery drain....see here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1933012
ive now found out that i am having a very wierd problem...My rom is showing some 30% battery while 4ext shows 50%......Sometimes it is exactly the opposite....Once i discharged my phone to 2% (rom reading) and when i saw in recovery it says 17%....
I have completed many many cycles of battery from charging to full....and discharge to 0.....Also i used the battery callibration app SEVERAL times!!!!........But nothing seems to work...
Can somebody help...Please
I am really suffering from massive battery drain http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1933012 :crying:
Did you try to delete battery stats? Or use an app to improve battery life?
I have the same issue too when booting into recovery. I don't worry about it. I suggest the same as Ramjet in your other thread.
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I had this issue with my old battery and old charger,
Now I dont use my phone while charging , I charge other batteries with the wall charger while using other ones and everything is fine now.... battery % seems to be same in both android and recovery.
I have that same issue too. Lol maybe the recovery can't read the battery correctly. It'll show up higher in recovery and then when I reboot, it will read the same way like in recovery. Tried numerous batteries with the same result. Although I havnt tried battery calibrating. Ill give that a shot.
Is there any solution ??
Try klect's solution and go into recovery, wipe battery stats. Then let your battery drain and die. Then charge your battery back to 100% with no interuptions like pulling your phone off the charger too soon. When you wipe your batt stats you are getting ready to recaliberate your battery. After you let it charge to 100 percent. Let it drain to 0 a couple times to recondition your battery.
You do know that the evo 3D gives around 3 hrs of screen time dont you? even on stock rom on normal usage. If you have the wifi on all the times you'll get around 2:30 maybe 3 on a full charge.
Your battery certainly is draining faster than usual but have you tried keeping it idle and seeing what kind of drain you get? From that screenshot in the other thread it seems like your phone is getting some heavy wifi browsing or something (and do check if facebook or email apps are the culprit. Having push email on drains a lot)
And the recovery/rom reading wrong stats happens all the time. just recalibrate your battery like these good folks here have already suggested
Yes i keep wifi on all the time...
But once i kept my locked for abot 3 hours after full charge...when i unlocked it showed 99%...i was happy and i didn't do anything just surfing my screens it dropped very very fast to some 70 % !!!!
Also please hit our thank you buttons please. Even if you didn't get the exact answers you wanted. It's appreciated for helping one another.
you really should check your apps battery usage using one of the apps ramjet73 told you about
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There are a bunch of tips here.
Usually that kind of drain is caused by an app. Try running a stock ROM for a day or two and see if the issues go away. Or use one of the battery monitoring apps (BetterBatteryStats, SystemPanel Standard, Battery Monitor Widget) to determine which app is causing your drain.
It may take some work on your part to isolate the problem since there is no global solution to battery problems.
ramjet73
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top culprits are mostly facebook,email exchange,google maps and pretty much anything that syncs alot
Also try using you phone on min brightness auto brightness is also a battery killer
I cant beleive no one asked you this but which kernel are you using? And is it overclocked?
I am on mwakious 13.1 default...no changes to it
I recently ordered two new OEM batteries for my Atrix 4G, equivalent to the battery I was replacing – at least they appear that way. When I installed the new battery, my battery indicator was showing that the phone was at 15% after only a few hours. I charged a couple of times with the same problem occurring, I tried the second battery. When the same thing happened, I decided just to let it die all the way and charge fully after. My battery level hit 1% and stayed that way for hours and hours of use. When I timed the battery life, it was actually very good and it appeared the battery meter was just reading wrong.
I tried several full discharge and recharge cycles and tried disconnecting the battery while the phone was plugged in until the ‘?’ battery appeared and reinstalled it. The same problem occurred again and again. Next, I rooted the phone and tried the battery recalibration app. Results were the same. I have followed this up with discharging and recharging the battery fully several times but the problem still remains.
I have now installed an app that reads the voltage on the battery. It reads ~4200mV when plugged in and fully charged. It will discharge to somewhere between 3200mV and 3300mV before the phone shuts off and it takes upwards of 30 hours for this to happen. This has proved to be a somewhat effective way to actually estimate my remaining battery but it is still driving me nuts that the meter is off. Is there anything I can do?
Thanks for your help!
try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832470
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try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832470
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Thanks for the reply. I installed the app a couple of days ago. I have tried the first option "Run the Fix" a couple of times, once with the battery stating it was at 100% while plugged in and once in the middle of the day while not plugged in. It has not seemed to do anything from what I can tell.
I have not run the second option to Fix battd yet because I had to figure out how to install Busybox, which I have now done. I will try that option tonight and report back.
Thanks.
You should also read about the purpose of the app and how to use it. It is all in the OP of that thread. There is no point in running the fix just whenever you feel like it, it is meant to be run only right after the battery is done charging. Running it any other time will most likely just mess up the stats/percentage even more (not irreversibly though).
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You should also read about the purpose of the app and how to use it. It is all in the OP of that thread. There is no point in running the fix just whenever you feel like it, it is meant to be run only right after the battery is done charging. Running it any other time will most likely just mess up the stats/percentage even more (not irreversibly though).
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I did "run the fix" when my battery was fully charged overnight and rebooted the phone. I used the phone for a couple of days and it did not improve the situation. Last night I charged to 100% again and did the "fix battd" option. Today, there has been no improvement in the meter. I will try charging to 100% again tonight and try the force calibration option with the "run the fix". Is there any other way I should try to run it?
It will always charge right up to 100% and 4200 mV, the problem is the percentage will drop rapidly once unplugged all the way down to 1%. Once it hits 1% it will stay there and I can keep using the phone through the rest of the day and even overnight and into the next day before it actually powers itself down.
Yeah, I've heard of a few other people having the same issue. Sadly the battery fix app isn't going to help in your case - I don't really know what will, I'm not sure if there is a fix. Try searching the forum, this has definitely been mentioned more than once.
Hi. I just started using the Atrix today. I flashed the official ICS leak. But strangely, my battery meter isn't going above 50%. Can i use the app (from the link given above) to solve the issue>?
thanks.
Dunno. Why don't you try and see for yourself?
BTW I don't think running the leaked ROM as a daily driver is a good idea at all, especially if you only just started using this phone...
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Dunno. Why don't you try and see for yourself?
BTW I don't think running the leaked ROM as a daily driver is a good idea at all, especially if you only just started using this phone...
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Oh ok. I will try it for a couple of days and see. So far, it is amazing. Fast, responsive, very very little lag. Just this battery thing is a little weird. BTW, it did go ahead of 50%...i hope it doesnt fall really fast.
And I have a NeXus 4 as my main phone. My office gives me one phone, hence the Atrix.
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Yeah, I've heard of a few other people having the same issue. Sadly the battery fix app isn't going to help in your case - I don't really know what will, I'm not sure if there is a fix. Try searching the forum, this has definitely been mentioned more than once.
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I have done some research and have found that this has been a common issue for users of the Droid X. There are two revisions of the BH6X battery, SNN5880A and SNN5893A. Many users of the Droid X purchasing the 5893 revision of the battery report having the exact same problem I am having. They have solved it by using the older 5880 revision. They suspected that the 5893 was made for the Atrix and the 5880 for the Droid.
The problem is, I have the newer 5893 revision on both new batteries which, according to that info, should work for my phone. I do not have my original battery that I was replacing with me at the moment but I can check that model number tomorrow night. I only found one other thread where a person had this issue with the Atrix here. There is no real answer on how to solve or work around the problem though and I am not having any luck finding others with this issue.
Is there any way to adjust the battery meter settings or simply hide the stock meter? I apologize if this is a dumb question.
Problem solved:
I tried the batteries in my girlfriend's Atrix and experienced the same problems. Convinced it was an issue with the battery itself, I contacted Motorola through live chat and explained the situation. After talking about (some of) the various troubleshooting steps I had taken, they told me they would send me a new battery. The battery came and has been working perfectly for the last week with the percentage showing accurately.
The two bad batteries I had were manufactured 04/08/11 and 04/12/11. The new one they sent was manufactured sometime in April 2012. Perhaps a bad batch of batteries was produced by Motorola. That would explain why Droid X owners believed that the battery was incompatible with their phones. The talk that the battery was incompatible started shortly after those batteries were produced (it looks like around August 2011), and mixed in there are reports of the SNN5893A working in the Droid X for some. Hopefully this info is helpful to others.
Thanks again to everyone who took the time to offer help.