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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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hobbs said:
I am on stock rom, codeworkx kernel, and root with super one click. I don't remember since when, I noted that when I plug the phone to charge at night, I would see 60 or 61% battery. Coming from captivate, I was impressed with GSII's battery life. However, I began to suspect something was wrong when it's 61% every evening. I tried recalibrating, erased battery stat with CWM, and manually deleted batterystat.bin with root explorer. Now my battery status shows 100% all the time. Anyone have any suggestions?
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where are you always seeing the 100%? At the top, in the status bar? If so, that may be an issue with the theme you are using. What do you see when you go into the Settings menu, "About Phone", "Battery Status"?
Reflash your ROM.
Deleting batterystats.bin shouldn't do anything, neither should recalibrating, unless you somehow screwed up the ROM our your phone is defective.
There are NO provisions for loading battery history into our fuel gauge.
hobbs said:
I am on stock rom, codeworkx kernel, and root with super one click. I don't remember since when, I noted that when I plug the phone to charge at night, I would see 60 or 61% battery. Coming from captivate, I was impressed with GSII's battery life. However, I began to suspect something was wrong when it's 61% every evening. I tried recalibrating, erased battery stat with CWM, and manually deleted batterystat.bin with root explorer. Now my battery status shows 100% all the time. Anyone have any suggestions?
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sounds like a godsend, not a problem.
jsmith8858 said:
where are you always seeing the 100%? At the top, in the status bar? If so, that may be an issue with the theme you are using. What do you see when you go into the Settings menu, "About Phone", "Battery Status"?
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It's 100% on the status bar, about phone battery widget
Entropy512 said:
Reflash your ROM.
Deleting batterystats.bin shouldn't do anything, neither should recalibrating, unless you somehow screwed up the ROM our your phone is defective.
There are NO provisions for loading battery history into our fuel gauge.
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I did not want to reflash the rom but I may have
mrRobinson said:
sounds like a godsend, not a problem.
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perpetual battery would be nice, wouldn't it
Depending on the scheme that Samsung uses, it could have been a botched battery calibration. If you started the calibration process with a partially discharged battery (say at 60%), it may think that is a full charge. So everything that is above 60% will be reported as 100%. Again, it all depends on how they calibrate the indicator and how you performed the calibration.
Just a thought.
My battery guage is still screwy. I tried unNamed 1.03, 1.04, ad now serendipity. It never shows below 50%. The phoe just dies without low battery warning. When I plug in the charger, battery shows that it's dead. It takes few mins to charge so that I can reboot the phone. But when it reboots, it shows 50% battery. I can not trust the battery guage. Is the battery bad? It does not seem to be related to roms since it seems to happen with all 3 roms.
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Defective. Time to exchange?
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Defective. Time to exchange?
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It's clearly not defective.
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Screenshot of when the phome died. Now charging. As you can see it never hit 0
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Depending on the scheme that Samsung uses, it could have been a botched battery calibration. If you started the calibration process with a partially discharged battery (say at 60%), it may think that is a full charge. So everything that is above 60% will be reported as 100%. Again, it all depends on how they calibrate the indicator and how you performed the calibration.
Just a thought.
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STOP BLINDLY APPLYING HTCISMS TO SAMSUNG PHONES.
Our fuel gauge is specifically designed NOT to require calibration. Diddling with batterystats.bin does NOTHING except for possibly causing the software to hit the chip with way too many resets, freaking it out.
Our fuel gauge chip has ONE input to it - reset. That's it.
hobbs said:
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 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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hello,
i have now a week long on my sgs2 every 2 minutes a message on my screen : charging paused, voltage too high.
i have flasht my phone allot but on stock rom(I9100BUKJ3) i have the same problem.
When the battery of my phone is full and I disconnect it, he keeps saying that he is connected and full.
i can't find anyhere what the solution for this is.
have somebody any idea?
sorry for my bad English.
greet beun
I got the same thing did u figure it out yet?
It started this morning when I unplug it i see the message every 2 minutes or so.
I have a feeling that it might be the battery but I don't have another to try it and I don't feel like buying a new one just to test.
Anyone know anything about it? I searched in Google for about an hour but this post was the only relevant thing about it
have you tried a different charger ? might work
Won't make a difference it gives the error when it is unplugged
Now Fx. It is nice an silent while on the charger. But when I take it out is gives the error
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same problem...
i got the same problem...
but in my device it said that massage even if the battery isn't fully charged...
I mean that when the battery is half charged and i plug off the charger the massage come up.
I tried the change my battery or charger and no differnce..
I think itws might be the kernel or something... cause I started get this massage when I subtitute my kernel...
sorry for my bad english...
sasi314 said:
but in my device it said that massage even if the battery isn't fully charged...
I mean that when the battery is half charged and i plug off the charger the massage come up.
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i have looking in my phone, my battery voltage is on this moment +4000 mV
on the accu i read 3,7 volt.
on this moment i'm on my work,
about 4 hours im on my pc home to place some screen shots,
i also found a link about a older samsung phone with the same problem, by that person whas a chip broken, so i hope that this not the same.
sorry for my bad english
greets beun
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flashing doesn't have any sense so i'm afraid that it is a hardware problem.
i think its a battery control chip or something like that.
have somebody good experience with a situation like this?
Same problem here. It only happened when I started flashing ICS roms.
It goes away eventually, usually when i get down to about 60% charged or so. Sometimes it doesn't happen at all.
TheCarFreak said:
Same problem here. It only happened when I started flashing ICS roms.
It goes away eventually, usually when i get down to about 60% charged or so. Sometimes it doesn't happen at all.
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Same here, although it only happens when I use the car charger... both of the car chargers cause this issue. The wall charger however is fine. I noticed it happens with the ICS leaks from sammobile.
Just started happening to me too!
Get a flashing battery icon continuously too.
Can't connect via usb mode too because it says theres a cable already connected!
Any have any ideas on what to do?
Have someone this problem to who never flasht his phone?
I think that we made the problem self by flashing wrong kernel or bootloader from a 4.0.3 maybe
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Charge
When your phone is 100%battery then he have 4200 mv and then it decreases. its not that when battery is 0 he say - mv but.. i sugegst to you that you reboot your phone into recovery mode if you rooted, then wipe battery stats..
if nat root then download app name battery calibrator from market and then charge your phone to 100% and then click calibrate. it may improve your solution to problam. so try it.. ok man thats all i can say.. best of luck..
i sugegst that after you fix the problam hopefully you root de phone and intall checkrom hd v6 and then you install speedmod kernel. it will improve your battery time by lot i say in guarantee.. ok man so you do that..
bye then
Wiping battery stats does not make sense.
I buy today a usb jig to reset my bootloader en after that i go flash my phone to 100% stock. If this not helps i bring my phone back for repair.
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Restored my Gingerbread backup and the problem seems to have gone away.. charge icon is showing a charge without stopping. Seems like only the leaked ICS ROMs are exhibiting this problem?
I also have this message in ics but in gingerbread it does not work good. On this moment i walk with my dog and the phone says that im usb connected i think that the problem is lower than the os. Its the bootloader or hardware i think
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OK, after a few days of observing my phone I can say this:
The problem persists even in ginger bread but the error does not show, open the dialer and write *#*#4636#*#* go into battery settings and see the battery state (tested on cm7)
When the battery drops below 15% it behaves normally until charged again (however it might just be time, I drop to 15% in about 10 hours )
It seems that the mV is irrelevant, on charge it went to 4213mV and said battery state good (after the 15% drop thing) but it said over voltage at 3558mV (not in charge)
That's about all I could see, ill get a jig myself and see where that brings me, although if anyone has a spare battery to see if the problem is that or something else it would be nice to know the results
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Same problem here, started yesterday after flashing foxHound ics, reverted back to GB, as stated previously the notification goes away but the problems still there, also if i reboot my phone then the battery healths good for about 10 minutes even if the voltage is above 4000mv, but about 10 minutes later it says voltage too high even when its lower at about 3800.
Flashed another rom and its been alright for about 6 hours, will test a bit more and post back.
Just a heads up guys, the issue returned even on GB so i flashed back ics, took out my battery cleaned the usb port with rubbing alcohol and compressed air, put the battery back in and now alls fine charged to 100% no issues drained it overnight watching movies and charged it again to 100% no issues. Not sure if it was the ics rom that fixed it or the cleaning. anyhow seems to be fine now
Hmm sounds good, but just to be sure, type this in the dialer *#*#4636#*#* and in the battery menu look at battery health, and what from are you on? Really hope that it fixes it
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I used de command and battery status : blinks (charging -Discharging ) .. I cant tun off my phone, it boot alone again :S
My Sgs2 was ok, but I charged it for 1 day.. and the problem appear. Help plz
Hello everyone.
I'm currently running Supernexus 2.0, and I've been having some battery problems, possibly. Occasionally, I'll be using my phone and the screen will start to flicker, and then shortly afterwards, the phone locks up. At the time, I'll usually have plenty of battery, but then I reboot the phone from the lock-up and it will have dropped quite a bit. Last night, it went from about 50% down to 1%. So, I plugged it in, let it charge for a few minutes, then reboot it again. After the reboot it was like it started charging again from 50%, and the battery was around 60%.
So I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue with CM-based ROMs, or if I should be looking at replacing my battery. I've noticed its got a slight bulge on both sides.
The battery life seems to be far greater on Supernexus 2.0 vs the stock TouchWiz ROM, so I'm hoping I wont have to switch back!
Thanks in advance!
SuperTurboTurkeyPuncher said:
Hello everyone.
I'm currently running Supernexus 2.0, and I've been having some battery problems, possibly. Occasionally, I'll be using my phone and the screen will start to flicker, and then shortly afterwards, the phone locks up. At the time, I'll usually have plenty of battery, but then I reboot the phone from the lock-up and it will have dropped quite a bit. Last night, it went from about 50% down to 1%. So, I plugged it in, let it charge for a few minutes, then reboot it again. After the reboot it was like it started charging again from 50%, and the battery was around 60%.
So I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue with CM-based ROMs, or if I should be looking at replacing my battery. I've noticed its got a slight bulge on both sides.
The battery life seems to be far greater on Supernexus 2.0 vs the stock TouchWiz ROM, so I'm hoping I wont have to switch back!
Thanks in advance!
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the bold thing indiactes that ur batt is mugged up for now, replace the same ASAP
^^agreed......the bloated battery and the erratic battery percentages are both indications of a failed/failing battery.....no way back from that state....only way forward.....new battery asap.....and stop using the current one, the bloating is caused by a build up of gasses which means your battery is now pressurised. Charging could cause the battery seals to fail and then you'd have a potentially corrosive lithium based fluid leaking all over the inside of the phone
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Thanks for the replies!
I'll see if I can track down a new battery. The bloating is pretty minimal, but Its enough for me to notice. I'm pretty sure it used to be perfectly flat.
Hello again!
I bought a battery from ebay, which was definitely slimmer than my old bloated battery. However, the problem still persists. I switched back to a 4.1.2 Touch Wiz rom, and my phone would still just shut off without warning when the battery got low. So I tried Cyanogenmod 10.1, and it behaves about the same as supernexus did.
Its possible I just bought a crappy battery. Is it possible the phone is reading my battery incorrectly?
Also, is there a way to get a graph of the battery over multiple charge cycles? An app probably?
Here's a screenshot showing what my battery does when this happens. Lots of juice, then suddenly, zero.
Thanks all!
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Was the battery an official Samsung battery? I know they cost a bit more, but it's the only way know absolutely know that it's not the battery.
Some users here will say that they get good usage out of non-official batteries. Personally I didn't so only use genuine Samsung ones now.
You could borrow one from a friend and see what happens before forking out?
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Hello!
I thought I had bought a Samsung official battery, and it looks like a Samsung official battery, the only difference is my original says "Made in Japan/Finished in Korea" and my possible ebay knock-off says "Made in China/Finished in China".
Is there a good online source for Samsung official batteries? Do they still manufacture the i9100 batteries or are they just "New old stock"?
Thanks!
SuperTurboTurkeyPuncher said:
Hello!
I thought I had bought a Samsung official battery, and it looks like a Samsung official battery, the only difference is my original says "Made in Japan/Finished in Korea" and my possible ebay knock-off says "Made in China/Finished in China".
Is there a good online source for Samsung official batteries? Do they still manufacture the i9100 batteries or are they just "New old stock"?
Thanks!
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I have the exact same problem with my wife's phone. I thought it was the ROM because it used to work completely fine on CM but I switched back to stock Touchwiz a few months ago. I ordered a new battery from ebay. It looks legit but it only cost $10 so it may not be. I'll try to snap a photo of it.
Hopefully I can get this issue resolved the battery is so strange because it says it is dead then if you charge it for a few minutes it says its 1/2 full again?
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I have the exact same problem with my wife's phone. I thought it was the ROM because it used to work completely fine on CM but I switched back to stock Touchwiz a few months ago. I ordered a new battery from ebay. It looks legit but it only cost $10 so it may not be. I'll try to snap a photo of it.
Hopefully I can get this issue resolved the battery is so strange because it says it is dead then if you charge it for a few minutes it says its 1/2 full again?
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Hello!
I actually seem to have solved this problem by using an app off the play store simply called "Battery Calibration". I've also used STweaks with Siyah Kernel to solve it as well. It seems that when you flash a rom, you should re-calibrate the battery.
The app comes with instructions that say how to use it best, and I watched my phone drain down to 1% and power down properly, finally, after a few weeks of having these battery issues.
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.
zzEvilGeniuszz said:
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 !!
medwatt said:
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.
zzEvilGeniuszz said:
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?
UPDATE:
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.