three evo3d batteries completely fry.. coincidence? - HTC EVO 3D

Guys ain't sure this is out there and I did search but couldn't find much on subject so looking for someone to confirm...
I now know of three different peoples 3vos batteries to completely fry around the 4 month mark, this includes my 3vo which is why at the moment I'm posting this from my hd2...
I've looked at all variables in the three different cases and nothing stands out... is it just HTC supplying crap batteries that can't keep up?!?
Appreciate some comments back guys and girls!!
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Don't know but I have a problem that my battery never seems to reach full charge I always end up with between 95% - 99% no matter what rom I'm using
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I've never heard of a single battery frying till now
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chubby65 said:
Don't know but I have a problem that my battery never seems to reach full charge I always end up with between 95% - 99% no matter what rom I'm using
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That doesn't really have anything to do with the OP...
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Ok thanks guys... Must just be a coincidence!
Htc are sending a new battery out under the warranty anyways!
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chubby65 said:
Don't know but I have a problem that my battery never seems to reach full charge I always end up with between 95% - 99% no matter what rom I'm using
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That is built in the Kernel I believe. Basically, your phone charges to 99%, then internally stops charging until it hits below 95% and starts again. What I do is when I wake up, unplug, then plug back in. By the time I leave around 45 minutes later it is back to 99%. You can if you have a recovery, let it charge to 99%, then power off, boot into recovery and wipe battery stats, then resume charging. Do this 2-3 times and you can get to 100%.

raptoro07 said:
That is built in the Kernel I believe. Basically, your phone charges to 99%, then internally stops charging until it hits below 95% and starts again. What I do is when I wake up, unplug, then plug back in. By the time I leave around 45 minutes later it is back to 99%. You can if you have a recovery, let it charge to 99%, then power off, boot into recovery and wipe battery stats, then resume charging. Do this 2-3 times and you can get to 100%.
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Cheers m8 would that also apply to cm kernel too
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chubby65 said:
Cheers m8 would that also apply to cm kernel too
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Actually I thought I read not. I seem to remember that is HTC's kernel and the same problem doesn't happen to CM but I've never run it so I couldn't say myself.

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Phone not reaching 100% while charging

Ok its me aging hopefully this hasn't been posted either cuz I haven't came across it....but anyway today I decided to calibrate my battery let it die out and charge while the phone is off...and this was around 5pm....I fell asleep and it is now midnight and its still charging and I know stock batteries don't need a lot of time to charge unlike extended batteries.....has anyone else come across this or does this phone need 7hrs plus of charging??
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computerkid23 said:
Ok its me aging hopefully this hasn't been posted either cuz I haven't came across it....but anyway today I decided to calibrate my battery let it die out and charge while the phone is off...and this was around 5pm....I fell asleep and it is now midnight and its still charging and I know stock batteries don't need a lot of time to charge unlike extended batteries.....has anyone else come across this or does this phone need 7hrs plus of charging??
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There is no need to calibrate the battery. When the phone reaches 99% charge capacity, it will take a while for it to achieve 100%. Once it achieves 100%, it will let the battery drop back down to 95% then it will begin charging back to 100%. It is a repeated process. It will keep doing this until the phone is removed from the charger.
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DDiaz007 said:
There is no need to calibrate the battery. When the phone reaches 99% charge capacity, it will take a while for it to achieve 100%. Once it achieves 100%, it will let the battery drop back down to 95% then it will begin charging back to 100%. It is a repeated process. It will keep doing this until the phone is removed from the charger.
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Yea I understand that as far ad the phone being on and charging right?? But my phone was off and after 7hrs my charging like was still red I just turned it on and it was at 90 and just like that it went to 70
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computerkid23 said:
Yea I understand that as far ad the phone being on and charging right?? But my phone was off and after 7hrs my charging like was still red I just turned it on and it was at 90 and just like that it went to 70
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That is interesting.. Are you using the stock battery/charger? Are you connected through an outlet or usb port?
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DDiaz007 said:
That is interesting.. Are you using the stock battery/charger? Are you connected through an outlet or usb port?
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Yes stock battery and its through an outlet I never do usb cuz i don't believe it charges fully (IMO)
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computerkid23 said:
Yes stock battery and its through an outlet I never do usb cuz i don't believe it charges fully (IMO)
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Once you disconnect, your battery drops from 90 to 70 in a matter of minutes?
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If that is the case, I would say bad battery. BUT I do remember reading that there were some Evo 3D's that suffered from the same problem, and they were also getting extremely hot. If that is the case, I suggest exchanging.
Was your phone normal before?
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Happened to me before when my phone died..... This battery takes forever to charge.
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DDiaz007 said:
Once you disconnect, your battery drops from 90 to 70 in a matter of minutes?
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Yes it did there was a lil notch gone in the status bar next thing I know the battery is at the 70% Mark
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EricSS619 said:
Happened to me before when my phone died..... This battery takes forever to charge.
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I have yet to experience this substantial drop. Hmm...
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DDiaz007 said:
If that is the case, I would say bad battery. BUT I do remember reading that there were some Evo 3D's that suffered from the same problem, and they were also getting extremely hot. If that is the case, I suggest exchanging.
Was your phone normal before?
Ok and yes I got the phone 2days ago and besides the 3 digit weather issue my phone was normal to my knowledge
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computerkid23 said:
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So at one point and time, it was normal? Have you installed any apps since then?
Edit: Have you done any of the OTA's?
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EricSS619 said:
Happened to me before when my phone died..... This battery takes forever to charge.
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Ok well ill do another test later on cuz if the phone takes this long to charge I would think we should have awesome battery life say 10 hours plus I could be wrong tho
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DDiaz007 said:
So at one point and time, it was normal? Have you installed any apps since then?
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It was normal as no issues that I've noticed but this was the first time I charged the phone being off also and I doubt an app wouldn't cause this specially when the phone is off so therefore nothing running
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computerkid23 said:
Ok well ill do another test later on cuz if the phone takes this long to charge I would think we should have awesome battery life say 10 hours plus I could be wrong tho
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Let the phone die down to 15%, then charge it. If it drops significantly again, then we may have a problem. It could be a bad battery or an app you must have downloaded.
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computerkid23 said:
It was normal as no issues that I've noticed but this was the first time I charged the phone being off also and I doubt an app wouldn't cause this specially when the phone is off so therefore nothing running
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A smart phone is like a pocket sized computer. There can be malicious apps that can harm the phone. But if that isn't the case, I suggest hard resetting. If that still doesn't work, replace.
Edit: Try my other solutions first.
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DDiaz007 said:
A smart phone is like a pocket sized computer. There can be malicious apps that can harm the phone. But if that isn't the case, I suggest hard resetting. If that still doesn't work, replace.
Edit: Try my other solutions first.
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Gotcha thanks....ill try all the above
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I personally had strange battery problems the first week I had the phone, and after that my battery life became quite good (I did the battery calibration technique from the og evo and it helped a lot also).
So if you're saying it's strange after a couple days I'd say give it a chance to go through a couple more charge cycles. I'd bet the issues will sort themselves out.
computerkid23 said:
Yes stock battery and its through an outlet I never do usb cuz i don't believe it charges fully (IMO)
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What makes you think this?
nhutpham said:
I personally had strange battery problems the first week I had the phone, and after that my battery life became quite good (I did the battery calibration technique from the og evo and it helped a lot also).
So if you're saying it's strange after a couple days I'd say give it a chance to go through a couple more charge cycles. I'd bet the issues will sort themselves out.
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I'll give it to the end of the week and see what happens ......thanks everyone
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Charging problem while on charger

I just bought this phone and I don't know if its because its brand new or what but it doesn't charge completely.
It will charge up to 100% but then the percentage will decrease and the green light that let's you know its fully charged stays on yet the percentage lowers drastically and this is while its still on the charger plugged in and everything.
Does anyone else have this problem or experienced this?
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That's the circuit kicking in to prevent overcharging of the battery. It's normal.
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Will it get better over time because Ive had plenty of android phones and this is the only one that loses its charge while still on the charger.
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Yes it is like this on all EVO 3D as well as the EVO 4G. I'm not sure if it like that with only HTC phones or just the EVO brands.
Take it off once it turns green, it's full. If you leave it plugged in longer it will stop using the charger and use battery till it gets down to like 90% then the charger kicks back on.
Okay it was just a shock to me because I owned the vibrant, incredible, and g2 and the 3vo is the only one thats done this. But if its normal I guess I have nothing to worry about. Althought I still may get a replacement, I just charged it completely and its down to 53% after only 2 hours and 20 minutes and the only thing I've done so far is post this thread on xda haha.
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Abysmal Battery life but different after reboot?

I have an HTC EVO 3D, the battery will literally melt down to "red" in about 3 hours, and charge extremely slow or not at all, until I reboot the phone, and then the phone will reboot with a charge of around 60% and normal recharge rates.
What the heck is going on? My phone is not rooted, so I can't reset the battery configuration....or can i?
Stock everything...
try this. Let the battery die completely. With the phone off let it charge till you get a green light.
Do that a couple of times, will more than likely fix it.
You can also charge and then wipe battery stats in recovery.
charge and wipe stats ftw
You guys are so smart..it's not like he just saidb he's completely stock
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codyisnottanner said:
You guys are so smart..it's not like he just saidb he's completely stock
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Yes it's as stock as it gets, lol
Yeah I missed the part where he said he was not rooted.
Factory Reset.
Are you using the stock charger? I had this issue when I first got my EVO but it was because I had been using a different charger
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Problem charging battery

I have only had my evo 3d for 4 day's now rooted and s-off but never been able to achieve full charge yet
I always seem to get between 95% - 99% does anyone else have this problem?
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It's normal.
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Yep, normal. The first few times I charged my phone, it would sit at 99% for hours and hours, then finally go to 100.
Thanks guys thought I'd just got a dud battery
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if you want to fix that issue, turn it off, charge it till light turns green, turn it on.
just run a few battery cycles man. it is perfectly normal.
cobraboy85 said:
if you want to fix that issue, turn it off, charge it till light turns green, turn it on.
just run a few battery cycles man. it is perfectly normal.
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Cheers m8 will try that out overnight
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It will charge up to 99 the go down to 95 then back up to 99. It will be like that to protect your battery.
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rhonal89 said:
It will charge up to 99 the go down to 95 then back up to 99. It will be like that to protect your battery.
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This is the first phone that I've had that does this so for me it is strange to see
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Your battery will charge to 100%. When it reaches 99% just unplug it and plug it in again.
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its normal in every phone.electronic devices. the 1-2% are reserved in case user unplugs power before 100% is reached.you will see 100% if u charge overnight or turn the device off-charge until green and then turn on and charge again until green--bam!100%
The og evo used to do this but instead of reporting the battery percentage dropping it would report 100% no matter what. Its a huge problem if you have a bad charging cable cause it'll sit there at 100% till it kills the battery to zero.
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m4xwellmurd3r said:
The og evo used to do this but instead of reporting the battery percentage dropping it would report 100% no matter what. Its a huge problem if you have a bad charging cable cause it'll sit there at 100% till it kills the battery to zero.
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This so far is the only phone I've had that shows the battery like this all the others showed up as 100% that aside it's an excellent piece of kit
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Shutting down with 10% battery left?

On ICS my phone would alert me of low battery at 14%, then at 9% and at 5% would go red and alert me again. Now, on JB it alerts me at 14% but just shuts off at 10%. Has happened to me three times now, so I've gotten to where I charge once it hits 11% (if I'm at home). But That's shortening my battery life some and if I'm out and about is an inconvenience. I'm 100% stock. Anyone else having this issue since the JB update and is there a way to fix it (without rooting my phone)?
Have u accepted the update that was juss pushed out?
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Yes. It was doing it with the December update and I figured the next patch would fix it but nope, still doing it.
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Kanes_Inferno said:
On ICS my phone would alert me of low battery at 14%, then at 9% and at 5% would go red and alert me again. Now, on JB it alerts me at 14% but just shuts off at 10%. Has happened to me three times now, so I've gotten to where I charge once it hits 11% (if I'm at home). But That's shortening my battery life some and if I'm out and about is an inconvenience. I'm 100% stock. Anyone else having this issue since the JB update and is there a way to fix it (without rooting my phone)?
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Have you Messed with your batterystat.bin file at all?
Nah. 100% stock, all I've done is taken the OTA updates, never mess with much of anything.
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Kanes_Inferno said:
Nah. 100% stock, all I've done is taken the OTA updates, never mess with much of anything.
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Its possible the file got deleted in the process :/ have you tried letting it die and charging it full and repeating?
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YoFayce said:
Its possible the file got deleted in the process :/ have you tried letting it die and charging it full and repeating?
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No, I haven't. I will do that, thanks. Hopefully it helps.
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Mine does the same and I'm running viper4g 3.0.1
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luigi311 said:
Mine does the same and I'm running viper4g 3.0.1
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Was it doing it before?
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Never had this issue but now its shutting down at 9% sometimes then 11% its random..tried battery calibration but didnt work out
Thanks!
-iamnotjaytecson
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I had the same issue pop up when I wiped EVERYTHING except external SD and flashed a sense 5 Rom....after it completely died at 9% and then I fully charged, and then booted it up, Is been fine....try the complete kill/full charge method....Prolly has something to do with the battstat.bin file not reading correctly as stated above, let us know.
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Could be battery polling not correctly updating. Once in awhile I'll see 20%, reboot and it will say 8%. Battery may be damaged if the stats aren't correct.
jaytecson said:
Never had this issue but now its shutting down at 9% sometimes then 11% its random..tried battery calibration but didnt work out
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-iamnotjaytecson
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Wish I was in Makati
I have this same issue. I'm running irocevo's CM10.1
bigdaddy619 said:
Wish I was in Makati
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Where are you? Pinoy+?
Thanks!
-iamnotjaytecson
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jaytecson said:
Where are you? Pinoy+?
Thanks!
-iamnotjaytecson
HTC butterfly user
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No just love pinay
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bigdaddy619 said:
No just love pinay
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Well thats great! I love em too! Troll_face
Thanks!
-iamnotjaytecson
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I've had similar issues dating back to the original EVO. Found this page that fixed my problems then thanks Swagstr. I started having the same issues on the new Evo. This processes helped as well. If you're getting shutdowns/ reboots at 20% it'll take a while for this process to get "topped off". Once i do this, my phone will work until it's been at 1% for 10-15 minutes. Then the batter will show completely red with diagonal lines through it for a minute or two before shutting down.
http://www.pocketables.com/2010/08/how-to-calibrate-htc-evo-battery-and-possibly-double-your-battery-life.html
Here's a variation of these instructions:
Turn the EVO on and charge it until the LED indicator turns green.
Unplug it and turn it off.
Plug it back in and charge until the LED indicator turns green.
Unplug it and turn it on.
Once powered on completely, turn it off again.
Plug it back in and charge until the LED turns green.
Unplug it, turn it on, and use it normally.
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Basically repeatedly do this until plugging it in when off turns the LED green almost immediately.

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