I updated my prime to ICS Monday night, when it came out.
On my lockscreen it shows "Charged."
But on the notification bar menu it shows 97% and on a battery meter app I have it also shows 97%.
I even tried leaving it off and plugged in for hours and it still shows only 97%.
I'm sure it's actually at 100%, but the meter's incorrect.
Any ideas?
NickSaul said:
I updated my prime to ICS Monday night, when it came out.
On my lockscreen it shows "Charged."
But on the notification bar menu it shows 97% and on a battery meter app I have it also shows 97%.
I even tried leaving it off and plugged in for hours and it still shows only 97%.
I'm sure it's actually at 100%, but the meter's incorrect.
Any ideas?
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Of the handful of Android-based devices I've tinkered with, anything above 95% generally is considered fully charged.
Have you tried to reset your battery stats ....not sure how to do this on the prime but other phones do it through recovery
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maek_it_happen said:
Have you tried to reset your battery stats ....not sure how to do this on the prime but other phones do it through recovery
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I have not. I have done it on my phone, but i'm also not sure how to reset the stats on my Prime. I'm guessing that would probably work though.
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I have not. I have done it on my phone, but i'm also not sure how to reset the stats on my Prime. I'm guessing that would probably work though.
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Delete the following file: "/data/system/batterystats.bin"
Then make sure to plug in the Prime for lets say 8 hours.
I had something similar going on after the update. Just drained it while testing things out and now it's fine.
You can download Battery Calibration and reset. You'll need root.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5uZW1hLmJhdHRlcnljYWxpYnJhdGlvbiJd
Actually, I agree that if it's 95% or more, it will indicated "charged." The LED will also be green at this point.
Well, miraculously it just now hit 100% after being plugged in all day. Thank you all for the help though.
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Now that the phone has been had a few days, what kind of battery life are you guys getting? Is it better than the Evo 4g at least?
A weeks time bro, but I'll comment. Out of 15 hours I am getting six hours of moderate to heavy use with 15% left... This phone's battery is looking promising.
Like I said though, we'll need a week before we all reach a consensus.
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Now that the phone has been had a few days, what kind of battery life are you guys getting? Is it better than the Evo 4g at least?
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I used mine in a poor reception building for a 9 hour work shift, texting constantly and taking 3d photos for novelty of random stuff. I left with 55%. The key is using data only when you want to. I turned off auto sync and only used data sparingly, since I didn't need it on all the time.
Right now I got about 7 hours. Not happy but ill give it a few more charges.
Also I did not accept any ota so that's one problem.
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21 hours off charger (TAKES FOREVER TO TURN THE LIGHT GREEN).
3 hours of use
48% battery left
I don't think any of use have put the phone down long enough to find out.
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I don't think any of use have put the phone down long enough to find out.
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14 hours off battery as of right now after a full (green light!!!) charge. sent about 120 texts, made a half dozen phone calls, and just below 60%. WiFi/Bluetooth on ALL day, and connected to WiFi all day. Even downloaded the OTA fix for HTC Watch.
The battery is AMAZING, and this is stock. The reviewers were full of ****. Although I believe the latest OTA fixed a sync issue, so that was probably causing unnecessary battery drain.
I repeat, the battery life is great.
if this is true... and im sure screenshots will b posted shortly, think of what this will be like on CM7 running custom kernels.........
Amazing battery life for me - better than 0G Evo, and far better than Epic 4G - though I did constantly charge that battery to oblivion. Looking promising!
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if this is true... and im sure screenshots will b posted shortly, think of what this will be like on CM7 running custom kernels.........
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suddenly bonar
A couple of things I've noticed right away.
1. CurrentWidget is inaccurate.
2. The upper limit on voltage during the charge scares me. On the EVO with an SBC kernel, we were always worried about going much about 4210 mV. On this EVO 3D, I noticed a 4275 right away. Seems to me that at 4300, it's all over, right?
3. I did not notice the precipitous drop from 100-90 or so that occured after taking the EVO 4G off the charger.
2 hours 27 minutes from full charge to "connect your charger" with everything turned on and video playing. About five minutes after plugging in video playback stopped and another message popped up stating that charging rate wasn't sufficient for current power usage. I wasn't using the included charger though.
Battery meter is flaky though. Reading 99% most of the time while charging and green light indicating full charge didn't come on 'til several minutes after battery status read full.
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2 hours 27 minutes from full charge to "connect your charger" with everything turned on and video playing.
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if everything includes 4g, that ain't bad. If not, well... Not so good.
hungryjoe said:
2 hours 27 minutes from full charge to "connect your charger" with everything turned on and video playing. About five minutes after plugging in video playback stopped and another message popped up stating that charging rate wasn't sufficient for current power usage. I wasn't using the included charger though.
Battery meter is flaky though. Reading 99% most of the time while charging and green light indicating full charge didn't come on 'til several minutes after battery status read full.
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Sounds like you didn't calibrate it. The batteries don't need to be calibrated... but the phones software sure does.
ZachPA said:
A couple of things I've noticed right away.
1. CurrentWidget is inaccurate.
2. The upper limit on voltage during the charge scares me. On the EVO with an SBC kernel, we were always worried about going much about 4210 mV. On this EVO 3D, I noticed a 4275 right away. Seems to me that at 4300, it's all over, right?
3. I did not notice the precipitous drop from 100-90 or so that occured after taking the EVO 4G off the charger.
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It's a bigger battery first of all...not that much bigger, but, I don't see that voltage completely out of line...and it is OEM after all...typically nobody plays it safer than OEM...
14 hours 39 Minutes of the charger. Battery is still at 34%.
I was on and off of WiFi and used the phone more than i normally would because it is new. I checked facebook a bunch, texted as I normally do, surfed the web a bit, checked email, twitter, took several 3D pictures and a couple of videos, used a few apps....blah blah blah.
I am very pleased with the Battery life so far.
Is anyone using Juice Defender or other battery saving application, or are all of these numbers straight up battery use?
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Is anyone using Juice Defender or other battery saving application, or are all of these numbers straight up battery use?
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The only thing that i did was set facebook and email accounts to manual updates.
When you first get the phone to you full charge with the phone on or off
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Just now 100% charging is completed and got the Beep but after unplugging the charger it showed 96% this is the 5th time I am getting like this..Any idea how to fix it? thought it is FW bug and changed to KI8 from KI3 still same
EDIT: Now I am rooted and did wipe battery stats still same problem
Do you have CWM? My battery went mad two days ago. All I needed to do was clearing the battery stats via CWM.
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Even more interesting. If you phone freezes and you need to do a cold reboot (hold power until reboot) the battery level can drop like 20 or even up to 50% at a time. (it then slowly increases by itself).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312273
Helped increase my battery life, others with the same problem as you said it worked too, good luck!
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Do you have CWM? My battery went mad two days ago. All I needed to do was clearing the battery stats via CWM.
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okmijnlp said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312273
Helped increase my battery life, others with the same problem as you said it worked too, good luck!
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I did that but it didn't work
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I don't know if the stock recovery has this option, so you should check it. If it doesn't, you could consider rooting your phone.
It worked for me, after my battery went crazy. It dropped from 100% down to 86% in 5 seconds. And when I checked the stats in the menu, I saw three lines if which one made an upside down looping. The first moment I was like "wtf?".
But if you don't want to, you should go have your phone repaired/replaced.
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I don't know if the stock recovery has this option, so you should check it. If it doesn't, you could consider rooting your phone.
It worked for me, after my battery went crazy. It dropped from 100% down to 86% in 5 seconds. And when I checked the stats in the menu, I saw three lines if which one made an upside down looping. The first moment I was like "wtf?".
But if you don't want to, you should go have your phone repaired/replaced.
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Now I am rooted and did wipe battery stats still same problem
Ón my side it worked only with this steps:
1. Charge over night
2. run the app battery calibrator
3. unplug charger
4. drain battery all the way down till it shuts off
In this way yout phone can remember what is 100 % and what is 0%
PS: You need root permissions
I have asked Samsung Support on twitter about my problem they said: The device is fully charged, however, this is done to prevent overcharging which stresses the battery.
Rampler said:
Ón my side it worked only with this steps:
1. Charge over night
2. run the app battery calibrator
3. unplug charger
4. drain battery all the way down till it shuts off
In this way yout phone can remember what is 100 % and what is 0%
PS: You need root permissions
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ok will try it
go to market and download battery calibrator
Cangir said:
go to market and download battery calibrator
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I did that already
its kind of a feature that saves the battery from overcharging. read it on forums. dont worry
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its kind of a feature that saves the battery from overcharging. read it on forums. dont worry
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ok..Samsung Support said same
i did had same problem but when ever my phone beeps of full charging, then i disconnect and following the entropy method. That is power off the phone and full charge it and when the power is on, i checked and it shows 100%
So I was one of those who was finding my battery life to not be sufficient on the Photon and bought the Seidio extended battery. First thought is that it does make the phone heavier, but I can deal with that. Not a deal breaker.
My issue is that the Photon doesn't recognize the fact that I now have the extended battery. I've spent the last two days using Battery calibration software (charging overnight to 100%) and then trying to discharge completely and recharge. The problem is that the phone continually is showing 1% for almost 3-4 hours if not longer. I can't get it to recognize that there is more juice in there.
While it's great that it seems to be working well (first real work day with it today), having the battery drain like mad (or seemingly) and then sitting at 1% for half or more of the day and not knowing when it will die is a problem.
I wonder if this is why the stock seemed to drain so quickly - maybe it's a programming bug? Firmware bug? I dunno. In any event, any suggestions on how to make the phone actually see that there's more juice would be great.
As an FYI I've used "Battery Calibrator" - both of them and Battery Drainer and Fast Discharge to get the phone down. I am rooted, but everything is stock other then the root itself.
I spoke with Sedio - they said I should unroot the phone and do a master reset. I can't believe that would make it work better - but I'd rather ask this community first.
Thanks!
Check in the accessory forum there is a couple things on the Seidio battery and some people there that have them may have run into the same issue and have a fix for it.
Can't seem to find a thread where people talk about aa problem with it. Can you point me in the right direction?
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I meant about the battery not that specific problem. If you post there they may have had a similar issue
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Ahh.. Ok - actually someone on AndroidCentral just responded indicating the same issue on a non-rooted phone.. I'm gonnna try doing a full restore to see if that helps..
Yeah. Give that a shout and let us a know if it helps.
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have this battery, after the initial eight cycles allow nearly complete discharge, allow to charge for at least two hours after phone indicates battery is fully charged..... my battery is working very well, just use a battery indicator from the market, I didnt piss around with any battery calibrators, think this might be your problem, have never used a calibrator on any of my phones with extended batteries. Android market probly has an app to wipe your ass.....do you really need it? Hope the analogy is clear to you.
LOL fair enough. I did do the full flash this morning - so I'm unrooted.. Hasn't seemed to help - drain looks the same.. Been through about 6 full cycles since I got the battery. What battery indicator program are you using? I have battery circle and it's got the same issue.
Again - battery lasts just fine - but the amount of power left is never accurately indicated to me - and that's the problem.
I have had many Seidio Batteries, dating back to the OG EVO. The problem I have with this particular battery is this: These batteries work "properly" when charged on an Independent Charger, NOT inside the phone. If you Cycle/Discharge/Charge with this Battery on an External Charger, the Battery should calibrate correctly. I still believe the issue with charging within the phone, is that the Mopho doesnt accurately measure the Battery Capacity. Try and External Charger, should solve your problems....
riggy
Riggy -
Battery def is charging fully as I get tons of life - the MoPho only shows 1% left though for hours on end.. It's a matter of it doesn't see the correct amount of juice left. As per cutter2668, it may just be a situation of discharge - charge. Dunno.
As an FYI I did the full flash this morning, and I haven't really seen a difference in the phone telling me how much batt life I had left. I'll give it another day and hopefully after a period of time it will start reflecting a true number.
I have also emailed Seidio support directly on the issue.
So as an update, seidio is going to be sending along a new battery to see if that solves the issue. I guess we will see!
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Keep us posted and let us know how it goes.
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Don't know if said already but used battery monitor widget pro can be found on apktop or 4shared if can not find it let me know
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For free?
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So as an update, seidio is going to be sending along a new battery to see if that solves the issue. I guess we will see!
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Any luck on the new battery? Just noticed my extended battery is doing the same thing. :-(
So things still aren't working right. Battery shows 1 percent for half my day and the Photon just doesn't know. However, I read a thread on Amazon about a generic extended battery and someone suggested using Battery Monitor and using Voltage Based monitoring. Its certainly not perfect but it gives you a somewhat accurate reads on remaining battery. I truely wonder if this is OS or a hardware limitation.
Oh well.
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Why doesn't anyone wipe the battery stats from recovery (only available if you have CWM recovery)?
kusanagi-sama said:
Why doesn't anyone wipe the battery stats from recovery (only available if you have CWM recovery)?
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I did with bootstrap recovery this morning, no difference. Sitting at 1% for the last couple of hours.
budney said:
I did with bootstrap recovery this morning, no difference. Sitting at 1% for the last couple of hours.
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Maybe this is an Android issue, I've read the LG Optimus S has the same problem with extended batteries.
Being there's so much difference in battery life, I was curious if there might be a bad batch of phones. My phone gets great life and my dad's gets significantly less. He works about 2 blocks away from me and actually has a stronger signal in his building than I do at mine and his battery drops like a rock with nothing running. I'm rooted and froze the AT&T bloat. He's stock.
My serial number contains a PTM and the end number is in the 40000's. His serial number contains PZK and ends in a number in the 30000's. If you have time post your serial # info and how your battery life is.
I returned my ladies OG and now her battery life is better. Even b4 I rooted it drain was better from prior phone. Could be a batch. That's my lead as well
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I'm contemplating returning my phone just in case of a 'bad batch,' but I'm afraid I'll get a phone that's even worse lol. I can't forever replace phones. I'm just trying to make it work.
Does this phone have the ability or need to reset battery stats? I know you couldn't do it, or it was unnecessary on the SGSII. Just curious if it's a calibration issue.
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You can threw clockwork easily. It doesnt matter though. Trust me.
Jank4AU said:
Does this phone have the ability or need to reset battery stats? I know you couldn't do it, or it was unnecessary on the SGSII. Just curious if it's a calibration issue.
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Resetting battery stats actually has no correlation with battery life whatsoever. It is not what controls the percentage that we see in screen. I believe it just tracks what apps or system files are or have been using up the battery. Battery stats gets an automatic reset whenever you reboot anyways.
For those with bad battery drain, just try and see what your serial numbers are n post it here to compare.
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aquariuz23 said:
Resetting battery stats actually has no correlation with battery life whatsoever. It is not what controls the percentage that we see in screen. I believe it just tracks what apps or system files are or have been using up the battery. Battery stats gets an automatic reset whenever you reboot anyways.
For those with bad battery drain, just try and see what your serial numbers are n post it here to compare.
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http://rootzwiki.com/news/_/articles/wiping-battery-stats-is-pointless-says-google-r316
First time I read it, it blew my mind. Talk about placebo effect.
Jesus...its a SOFTWARE bug...not hardware. We ALL have it. We just use our phones differently.
Dude, you're blowing smoke off an asbestos fire. You have no idea what exactly is causing it.
Where do you go to get the serial number of the phone?
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The battery life on my phone and seemingly most folks is great. Granted some folks probably live on the cusp of LTE coverage in their area and the radio is killing the battery while liking for signal (that happened to me with my EVO 4G).
If it were all devices, then only the battery life fanatics who shut down everything would be seeing 20hrs on a charge.
I think there's a bad batch of hardware or there.
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crap battery
my s/n: KPUU 40000's the high end. I dont think its a batch.
seems odd that those who are having the issue are not likely to make to 10hrs on a charge (often 1/2 that)...while others are bumping 20hrs (myself included).
i have 4 emails on constant sync, as well as, facebook, weather, xda and a chess. each day has a couple hours of screen time. 1hr each day of either Pandora or Audible. 20-50 text and @45min - 1hr of phone time. ... in case you think i put my phone in my pocket and forget about it.
granted, i do connect to wifi at home and work. and i live in an area where i have solid LTE coverage at all times.
audible and screen time are my worst battery drains.
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Where do you go to get the serial number of the phone?
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We got ours off the box. Not sure where you'd get it in the phone.
Did a little more research. Set them side by side for an hour with screens at same brightness, always on, with Nexus live wallpaper running. Both were hooked into wifi and the microcell. Battery usage over a 1 hour period was pretty much identical (within 1%). Then did some web browsing and hit all the same links and drain was the same. We thought it maybe was just battery conditioning. When I first got it I did 2 full drains and recharges with it off. He did that about a week in and thought it was fixed.
I left and a couple hours later his battery started to tank. Only thing we noticed was his accelerometer hung for some reason and had 5 hours on. He hadn't used anything that should have turned it on so no idea why it got stuck. Turned it off and the battery usage slowed to what one would expect. Then it had another couple minute burst of dropping. that was the last I heard.
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We got ours off the box. Not sure where you'd get it in the phone.
Did a little more research. Set them side by side for an hour with screens at same brightness, always on, with Nexus live wallpaper running. Both were hooked into wifi and the microcell. Battery usage over a 1 hour period was pretty much identical (within 1%). Then did some web browsing and hit all the same links and drain was the same. We thought it maybe was just battery conditioning. When I first got it I did 2 full drains and recharges with it off. He did that about a week in and thought it was fixed.
I left and a couple hours later his battery started to tank. Only thing we noticed was his accelerometer hung for some reason and had 5 hours on. He hadn't used anything that should have turned it on so no idea why it got stuck. Turned it off and the battery usage slowed to what one would expect. Then it had another couple minute burst of dropping. that was the last I heard.
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Lol you ended it with such a dramatic air. "That was the last I heard". Dun dun dun! Lol. Sorry I just played some Alan Wake that's why
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The one thing I've notice about my phone is that when looking at my wireless icon in the notification bar, there is something transmitting 90% of the time (download it appears as it is just the bottom arrow blinking). It does this even when sync is turned off. I've gone through the phone and I can't see any app running. Has anyone else noticed this?
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I'm convinced there's a bad batch.
My replacement phone literally just ran all night. I had been awake backing up my system with Titanium, and it stalled before I went to bed. TB kept my phone running for 8 hours straight with the screen on and my phone is only at 18%.
If your battery life is ****, return it. Currently running Stock, rooted and unlocked with dormancy fix.
So this is what betterbatterystats is showing me. I'm using around 5.8% a hour that's not the best but that's not bad right?
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So this is what betterbatterystats is showing me. I'm using around 5.8% a hour that's not the best but that's not bad right?
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Take a shot of the alarms, kernal wakelock, and partial wakelock pages.
I had not enabled su privileges to it yet so I will have to wait on the alarms.
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Hi all was just reading this forum tonight using the xda app when suddenly the screen started flickering. At first I though it was an issue with the app but the screen kept on going black for a split second until the display totally disappeared and went black.
I then tried to switch it back on for which it didn't do anything. At the time I had around a quarter of battery life left, plugged the charger in and left it for a few minutes until it finally kicked into life but the battery was dead.
Does anyone think I have a faulty nexus?
I have also noticed once when I had switched the display off left it for an hour, came back and the back of the tablet was hot plus the battery was nearly flat.
Stan.
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That happened on my original one the picking it up after a while and its hot part. Found out it was an appl apparently freaking out in circles. I looked in battery stats for what was drawing all the power and I forced stopped it. Can't remember which app it was though :/
Oh and it never happened again (week)
Android can get a bit screwy with reading the battery life. I had this problem on my Nexus 7 (fizzling out at around 35% battery). The issue was resolved by fully charging the device (and leaving it charging for around 2 hours after it reached 100% to be absolutely sure the battery was full - you might want to leave this longer for a N10 since the battery takes longer to charge) - and then doing a full factory reset. No problems since.
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Android can get a bit screwy with reading the battery life. I had this problem on my Nexus 7 (fizzling out at around 35% battery). The issue was resolved by fully charging the device (and leaving it charging for around 2 hours after it reached 100% to be absolutely sure the battery was full - you might want to leave this longer for a N10 since the battery takes longer to charge) - and then doing a full factory reset. No problems since.
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Thanks all, I will keep an eye on this one. Only had the tablet for a week so wasn't expecting it to flip out like this!
Stan..
You might also try a battery configuration app.. Charge the battery to full and run the configuration app.
Changes are your battery was not as full a was showing. Could also have been an app draining too
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Richieboy67 said:
You might also try a battery configuration app.. Charge the battery to full and run the configuration app.
Changes are your battery was not as full a was showing. Could also have been an app draining too
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Ok, well fully charged up the device overnight three days ago. Haven't been using the tablet alot over the weekend only to use this morning. i noticed the battery hadn't changed percentage at all since yesterday and was on 48%, I only had a few apps running, facebook, mail and browser only to find again the screen started flickering like mad and then it went dead. It is currently charging up again for which I will leave it for a while.
I will have a look for that battery configuration app but if this happens for the third time I think I will speak with Google about this as it shouldn't be doing this!
Stan..