I know it would sound silly and I personally don't believe it but I want to make sure...
I removed the memory card out of my phone on friday and I realized that the battery is still on 40% even I charged my phone nearly 1,5 days before (Saturday evening and now is Monday morning) which is surprising - usually I get cca 19 hours... Well, I know its nonsense but is there any chance that the sd card matters? I used the phone same as before - some emails, internet, angry birds etc and I am using branded Kingston card....
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maarawoe said:
I know it would sound silly and I personally don't believe it but I want to make sure...
I removed the memory card out of my phone on friday and I realized that the battery is still on 40% even I charged my phone nearly 1,5 days before (Saturday evening and now is Monday morning) which is surprising - usually I get cca 19 hours... Well, I know its nonsense but is there any chance that the sd card matters? I used the phone same as before - some emails, internet, angry birds etc and I am using branded Kingston card....
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yeah, it sounds silly considering all eating my battery is the display, at least that's what the report says. but i will try, nevertheless
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I am new to this tablet Arnova 10 G2 (101c). Got it like 2-3 days back. Trying to know it better, so don't flame me please.
I got the rooted firmware on through one of the bundled apps - arctools. So now, here are my questions:
1. Camera:
My camera works. But I can't see where it stores the pics. Even doing a media rescan in settings menu doesn't seem to help.
2. Internal Memory:
On the back it says the model is 4GB. But inside, when I am browsing in root explorer I see over 7 GB free. I have copied over 4 gigs of pdfs (books), and still have over 3 gigs free. Over 7 GB free space on internal SD normally translates to a 8GB model. This has got me perplexed.
3. Battery:
Installed battery calibrator. I drained the battery full until the tablet shut down by itself. Then I charged it to 100%. Used the battery calibrator to delete the batterystats.bin file. Then charged it until the light was green with the tablet off. Turned it on with charger unplugged.
I put it on a movie at about 60% brightness. After about 5+ hours, it was at about 55-60%. Then I took off the movie for some time, turned the brightness to 0, and was doing some browsing, and now I noticed battery at 65%. Battery usage details show spikes moving up while I was simply using it and no charger connected.
Is this normal? How long does it take for the battery to normalize?
Someone help me please. Even after 3 full charge-discharge cycles, my tablet when kaput from about 30 to 0 last night!
diablo009 said:
Someone help me please. Even after 3 full charge-discharge cycles, my tablet when kaput from about 30 to 0 last night!
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Regarding the pictures I won't help you till I have the tablet but speaking of storage you clearly got the 8gb model if you're sure there's no external (micro sd ) memory counted
Regarding the battery it seems that you messed too much with it unnecessarily and now (guessing) the battery electronics freaked out or the li-ion cells got damaged because of a deep discharge.
try to use it normally charging from say 10-50% when needed to full and after some cycle maybe it will get better ?
this isn't the Arnova 10g2 (Philly tablet) your speaking of is it?
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this isn't the Arnova 10g2 (Philly tablet) your speaking of is it?
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Nah. I got this from a store here.. it says Arnova 10 G2 (non philly). Philly is a different version of the same.
przemke said:
Regarding the pictures I won't help you till I have the tablet but speaking of storage you clearly got the 8gb model if you're sure there's no external (micro sd ) memory counted
Regarding the battery it seems that you messed too much with it unnecessarily and now (guessing) the battery electronics freaked out or the li-ion cells got damaged because of a deep discharge.
try to use it normally charging from say 10-50% when needed to full and after some cycle maybe it will get better ?
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I don't really know about this. All I did was a couple of full charge-discharge cycles, and nothing more.
And it showed ~7+ GB free on internal memory (without any sd card inserted).
I am seriously thinking about returning my Sony Tablet S.
I can't seem to get more than 3 hours out of this without a charge.
I play a full movie with wifi/GPS on and then i am down to 30%.
I do have it rooted and most of the bloat apps is gone. I check the battery indicator constantly and the biggest app using battery seems to be android so nothing is zapping my battery life.
Any ideas?
I think something is wrong with you're tablet, mine lasts for more then 8 hours without root.
So yes, return it and ask for a replacement.
bartbla said:
I think something is wrong with you're tablet, mine lasts for more then 8 hours without root.
So yes, return it and ask for a replacement.
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same as that
Try this app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867
If it doesn't work, send to service centre for a check.
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Try and adjust the backlight intensity
When I first used my tablet the battery seemed to be gone in no time. I have found that reducing the backlight manually has helped. I would say there was a definite difference.
Thanks for all the responses.
Problem is this is for my kid. He don't really have the patience to wait for charges every day.
He like to watch movies on the tablet and play some games here and there. Considering he only use it for 3-4 hours a day, this is insane how short the battery is.
I thought i will never say this...but another android guy bite the dust and cross over to the evil apple kingdom (exchanging for the ipad2 with 10 hour battery life).
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Thanks for all the responses.
Problem is this is for my kid. He don't really have the patience to wait for charges every day.
He like to watch movies on the tablet and play some games here and there. Considering he only use it for 3-4 hours a day, this is insane how short the battery is.
I thought i will never say this...but another android guy bite the dust and cross over to the evil apple kingdom (exchanging for the ipad2 with 10 hour battery life).
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so we've all told you that it doesn't sound normal and that you should get much longer out of the device and your answer is "it must be android" rather than a faulty device.......
8 hours to 10 hours on mine, depending on what i do. with and without root, it doesn't change my battery life.
Mine about 8 hours
Had the same issue in the past... Delete all on USB and make a factory reset solved the problem. Now it run up to 8 hours.
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Had the same issue in the past... Delete all on USB and make a factory reset solved the problem. Now it run up to 8 hours.
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Same issue and fix here.
I have decent battery life ( 6+ hours) but one thing that makes me wonder is the idle time.
5 hours of screen time is less power consuming than the tablet being 20 hours in idle. Has anyone the same experience?
Yes. In my case it's the 3G modem. Turn it off generally and only on when you use it.
If I compare this case with my iPad I have to say, that the 3G modem in the sony uses much more energy in idle than in my iPad.
My Tablet is WiFi-only. And WiFi shuts down when the screen goes off.
Battery use:
Tablet idle ------------ 49% --> 15h 8m 57s
Screen---------------- 37% --> 4h 56m 31s
Is this strange behaviour or am I just paranoid since this is a totally different battery usage than on a phone( e.g Sensation)?
Bejtulla said:
My Tablet is WiFi-only. And WiFi shuts down when the screen goes off.
Battery use:
Tablet idle ------------ 49% --> 15h 8m 57s
Screen---------------- 37% --> 4h 56m 31s
Is this strange behaviour or am I just paranoid since this is a totally different battery usage than on a phone( e.g Sensation)?
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I report the same type of stats...
Its using a lot of battery in sleep mode. But sometimes it doesn't, sometimes sleep mode last way longer but most of the time its about 25-30 hours in sleep mode and that is way too much...
I hope ICS will fix this, if not i may return mine.
And not 2g/3g/4g here, no celular radio here.. So, its not that.
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USB??? you mean internal SD card (/mnt/sdcard)?
Yes. That's what I mean.
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Hmm. You do realise playing videos and having the wifi on in the background will cane the battery? Even more so if you're streaming said videos to your device via wifi. No doubt you've got the screen turned up full brightness as well?
Mine runs perfectly well and can last for a couple DAYS between charges, depending of course on how I use it.
Follow the tips provided by the others, you might get a fix. If not, get a new one from Sony. It's not a problem with Android - I suspect if you watch hours and hours of movies on an iPad you will still experience excessive battery drain because of the intensive nature of what you're doing!
Thanks for all the suggestions. If the tablet is for me to use daily, I probably would have condition the battery, try to delete all and then restart. However, it is for my kid and frankly it is unacceptable that a brand new tablet after watching one movie (just regular mp4 file i installed into the internal SD) is down to 30% charge.
I won't even start with the rest of the things i am disappointed with; the missing 6 gigs on the 16 gig, the screen little darker than i wanted (the screen protector I don't like at all), and frankly honeycomb in general is not that crispy and well developed.
I did end up getting a Ipad 2. After watching 1 movie, the thing still got 80% juice left....is night and day. Screen is sharper and brighter and most importantly it last more than a day without charge.
I don't want to hype about ipad here and i am still an android fan (i got 2 android phones), but the ipad really is WOW compared to the current corp of android tablets. Yes i am disappointed i won't be able to "tweak" the ipad like i can with droid pads, but Apple OS is so much better developed than honeycomb or ICS for that matter that really you can live without the tweaking.
For all you guys, with Wi-fi only (and 3G if you like the solution), before putting it to sleep put the device in flight mode. I've done it on mine and it was asleep for 4 days while I went out on a journey and when I came back only 30% of battery was gone...
I honestly can only fault the ipad in the sense that a media device, that for all intensive purposes is basically a more convenient option than a laptop, does not have flash support. Quick web browsing on tablets is great but it's useless without flash :S. Damn apple. Other than that I think the iPad is pretty great, especially now that the pricing for the new iPad has become alot sharper than in the price. Obviously to combat the success of Android tablets of late. But all I want out of a tablet is a bit of web browsing here and there, a couple games now and then and a nice digital photo frame to boot
I don't know about everyone else, but I have no desire to flash the crap out of my Sony tablet like I do with my SGS2. Now that I have root access it's doing everything I wanted it to do (and should have done!) from the start. So long is it's stable and responsive I'll be happy with it for a few years at least.
I was never happy with my tablet from day one but for me it was just software - sluggish and app incompatibility - a factory reset and root has fixed all that now. Never once have I had an issue with battery life. Sure as hell out-does any gameboy/ds/psp I've owned. Standby will last weeks if I don't touch it too.
So to those of you getting around 1-2 days standby time, something is seriously wrong with your tablet. There must either be a fault with your battery itself, or some app has gone rogue and just keeps it awake the whole time. i dont think any type of conditioning your battery will heed any results;
I didn't condition my battery at all when I got it and it's just fine. I played it with the 5% charge it had out of box till it died, got home, charged a bit, played with it till it shut off again, then when it got about 1/2 full just took it off charge and played with it again. Now it normally gets charged every friday whether it needs it or not.
Hello, new guy here. Thanks for having me here.
Did a search for the issue, but none thread found comes close. I did an update on Monday (24.03.2014) OTA to 4.3. Of course it failed - forgot to do factory reset before that so what I got was famous samsung screen with blue LED on. Long story short, managed to recover. I had all the usual after-update-battery-drainage issues, but after tweaking and forcing shut a lot of stuff it is much better. Except for screen.
When I use phone with screen on, the battery level drops almost visibly. I would estimate it at 1% for 1.30 mins. What's more - when I use Google Maps Navigation in my car, the phone loses charge even when plugged to the charger (old trustworthy TomTom USB, rated at 1000ma). Slow - about 1 percent for 7-8 minutes, but still. Oh, and phone gets very hot then. With screen off (power button or automatic off after 30 sec) the battery life is awesome and it charges like a sponge. even with constant H/H+ internet connection, audiobook player with headphones on and of course phone services. Comparing to "before update" its much better. Of course it may be due to lot less freeware (read: adware), but it is better.
However, screen is a killer in this deal.
60 hrs uptime, 15h 15min on battery, 47% of it screen usage. Next is Device Idle with 13%. During that time screen was up about 5h total, of that 3h while plugged to charge. I also went through two audiobooks totaling 20 hrs, browsed net (heavy with the downloads - 3gb total) for 2h, used Kingsoft Office for 2h and navigated with google maps for about 4h, did about 3.5h calls, emails check every 10 min (just headers), some texts and camera. All times approximated, but fairly accurate.
Phone is 1,5 years old, is and always was stock. Bought in UK, used in UK, locked with H3G (Three).
Does anyone have some advice? Tips? Tricks? suggestions? Much appreciated.
Thanks,
Adam
What you have is normal, you need a new charger is all and probably a new battery. 5hrs screen on time from a full battery is the best you can expect..
boomboomer said:
What you have is normal, you need a new charger is all and probably a new battery. 5hrs screen on time from a full battery is the best you can expect..
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Thanks for quick reply.
Well, since my SGS3 is 16 months old I would say that max screen for me would be bit less than 4h. Battery was used and abused (had message about it being too hot for charging a few times etc.), but right now it is more like 2h on scree time. And NOT charging while navigating is new. Started right after update. And this not charging issue is of supreme importance. I've a roving job over quite large area so I'm driving a lot. And sat nav is a must. And since it's draining battery even on charge it worries me as phone is used extensively - technical chats, calls, online and offline documentation etc.
Anyway, will change the charger. Battery... Have half a year till end of contract, so will think if I need the expense.
Oh, one more thing. On Monday my SanDisk 32gb SD died - that's why I updated. Wasn't sure which gave. I had unexpected unmount message with this card. Could this issue use more battery as well? different card now.
Thanks again.
Sd card issues will drain battery. Charging stops when the battery reaches 50°C so if you are navigating and don't point an air vent at the phone it will overheat and stop charging.
Batteries last six months before capacity is reduced, after 16 months you will be lucky to have 50% the original capacity, less if it has ever overheated.
boomboomer said:
Sd card issues will drain battery. Charging stops when the battery reaches 50°C so if you are navigating and don't point an air vent at the phone it will overheat and stop charging.
Batteries last six months before capacity is reduced, after 16 months you will be lucky to have 50% the original capacity, less if it has ever overheated.
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Oh, that I know. I'm hard on batteries, but not in phones. None of my phones ever had failed battery pack, but laptops... all of them. But that's not the issue.
Battery is essentially low energy chemical reaction, so obviously it will be degrading. No issue there. That's why I'm not shooting for max parameters and not worried about it, especially since update phone lasts more. Waaay more.
I changed chargers and it's the same (I have two more never used TomToms and one Tortoise rated at 2 Amps). So i'm starting to think that the issue is not batter, charger etc. I think Google Maps on navigation (which uses simultaneously Screen, GPS and internet) also goes on max on CPU and GPU. that's why tere is overheating and not enough power for everything.
So it looks like software issue. Google maps in particular. Do another factory reset? Everything is up to date. Or maybe I overlooked something?
Partial solution found
Hi all,
Sorry for late update, but was out of the country and all that.
Thanks for suggestions. They were useful to solving most of the issues.
First, changed cables, not chargers. cleaned also contacts in the socket of the phone, so battery gets charged well and fast all the time. And is even better after couple of cycles of full discharge/full charge.
Probably because of having less "apps for free" it is simply phenomenal - normal sync (incl. emails), normal gsm, heavy music listening - takes about 5-7% of battery charge per hour, depending on signal strength. It is much worse when working with screen on, but still good - about 5-6 hrs of gaming for example.
There is still issue of excessive battery drain while using google maps, but this may be software issue. will be uninstalling/reinstalling it soon. Should help.
Will inform on that one as soon as status changes.
After 2 or more years my Z2 battery is slowly failing. Just about get a day from a charge which is about half of what used to get with my usage.
Should i
1) Wait until its death
2) Upgrade (with what is another question)
3) Repair, which opens up another set of issues.
At moment my contract has expired and I pay £7pm for 500mb data, unlimited texts and more minutes than i need.
I have tried other phones but none have seemed right. Should I just keep phone until after the summer and try again then or is my memory faulty re battery life etc.
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After 2 or more years my Z2 battery is slowly failing. Just about get a day from a charge which is about half of what used to get with my usage.
Should i
1) Wait until its death
2) Upgrade (with what is another question)
3) Repair, which opens up another set of issues.
At moment my contract has expired and I pay £7pm for 500mb data, unlimited texts and more minutes than i need.
I have tried other phones but none have seemed right. Should I just keep phone until after the summer and try again then or is my memory faulty re battery life etc.
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Just open up the back and change the battery and buy new adhesive from eBay but get a genuine battery and it will be fine.my battery is still going strong after 2 yrs get 4 HR on screen time with around 38hr off charge
Hello Group,
At what battery drainage amount to you connect your LGV30 to a charger?? I got mine last weekend and to me the charge is decent but not great for being new at least to what I have been used to.
I use the charge cable that came in the LGV30 box and I also use my daughters wireless charger that she got for her Samsung Galaxy 8 since she doesn't use it and they both work great.
I generally charge it when it gets around 50-60% I dont know why but I cant stand my phone to ever get low even though certainly it will at times
Thanks, Jake
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I got mine last weekend and to me the charge is decent but not great for being new at least to what I have been used to.
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Are you talking about the speed of charge? For me the battery is so good I don't even look at it. At the end of the day, I put it on my slow wireless charger, and take it off in the morning when I go to work. Can't remember the last time I used the wired charger that came with the phone, but I thought it was super fast.
I normally plug in around 3%. Even though I know that's a bit low.
Here's todays battery usage.
I've been leaving high accuracy GPS on which is why my battery drains so quickly...
But I used my phone to stream music all night at work with GPM.
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Hey Group,
Good news, well I took my phone back to AT&T (they suck) and trying to explain that there is something wrong with the battery on a 1 week old new phone with one of the mindless helpers there is like trying to pick the correct 6 numbers on a lottery ticket.
I could tell pretty much as soon I I had brought it home (the bad one) but I decide to wait a week and give it time to see it get better even did the Oreo update. So anyway the young lady tells me that its me and I must have to many apps working in the background, I tell her, thanks but I dont have anymore then I always run and I basically use it for social media and some web surfing and I rarely do any games on it as I am a hard core computer gamer.
She again tells me that OH! you must have to many apps running in the background, I'm like (sigh) so I explained what I had just typed and so we go back and forth and she did not stop telling me about the apps in the background. I was going to get the Galaxy s9+ because I didnt want to deal with these jokers anymore but I decided to stick with my LGV30.
So now she tells me that the manager says I can just swap it out for another one if it passes their battery diagnostic test first, I said WHAT? so again I tell her from last night until this morning (about 5 hrs) when not being used it dropped almost 30% charge.
and of course it failed their "State of the Art" diagnostic test so I had to fork over another $45.oo to complete the deal but these phone is doing great.....theres more but this is the short version! btw, ATT&T is the DEVIL
Regards, Jake
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ATT&T is the DEVIL
Regards, Jake
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Actually it's Verizon, but postpaid AT&T is close second.
I try to never fully charge or discharge. High of 80-90% ... low of 20% or so ....
Best battery life I've had so far on a phone.