Battery going from 80% charged to 100% in just 5-10 minutes - HTC EVO 3D

My EVO 3D will jump from random percentages up to 100% charged. During one charge it'll go from 81% to 100% within just 5 minutes with the light turning green. The next time it'll go from 93% to 100% skipping the numbers in between. I'm pretty sure it started after I rooted my phone but before I put a custom ROM on it. I ran it for a month or 2 rooted stock and it has continued doing this with a custom ROM. I don't understand why its doing this.
This actually has me wondering if my battery is even charging fully or if its just reporting that it jumped up to 100% when its only within a few percentage points of the previous reading. I'm using Battery Monitor Widget so I have a log of this happening. The only time it didn't happen was the one time that I unplugged my phone repeatedly once it got up to 80%. I unplugged every few minutes until it hit 100%. Then it reported that it increased a few percent every 5 minutes until it hit 99% at which point it always takes a long time to reach 100%.
Does this happen to anyone else? Anyone have any idea whether it really is charging fully or what is going on?
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This sometimes happens to me too and the 99% stall has been like since I got the phone on launch day. Usually a reboot while unplugged sets it to the correct %.

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Same problem. I can't wait to get rid of this phone for the GS3
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bloodrain954 said:
Same Problem. I keep posting useless posts and cannot figure out why?
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Fixed that for ya.

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The EVO3d has horrible battery state reporting... Plain and simple. As long as you're around 4350mv you should be fully charged.
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Every once in a while mine will do this, when I shut it off and pull the battery then reboot it seems to stop it for a few weeks.

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Have you tried calibrating the battery? Battery Calibration app

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Try this
I had a similar issue.
Try this:
Drain the battery all the way down.
Once drained, make sure the device is powered off (should be already due to depleated battery) and plug it in USB to your computer. Don't use the wall charger.
Let it charge for a couple hours (Don't be fooled by the LED). Poer the device back on. It should read 100%.
Use as normal. Not sure why this helped, but it might be a concept similar to trickle charging a car battery.

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gunfromsako said:
The EVO3d has horrible battery state reporting... Plain and simple. As long as you're around 4350mv you should be fully charged.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should really be at a max of about 4185. Have you tested the battery with a multimeter to see if it is at 4350, because if it is... that is rather dangerous.
As for the post directly above mine, trickle charging is bad for the battery if it's left continually on, it should be at max capicity for too long otherwise you will damage the battery.

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Scougar said:
!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should really be at a max of about 4185. Have you tested the battery with a multimeter to see if it is at 4350, because if it is... that is rather dangerous.
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I'm going to have to disagree... The og evo has a stock 1500mAh battery and everyone who had one knows that 4200 mv was fully charged. Now the 3D comes with a stock 1730mAh which is full around 4350 mv
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As you can also see in the second picture my battery jumps from 83 to 100 horrible reporting...
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I have also noticed this similar issue. When i charge my battery to 80% then it after short time dropped to 60%. i have seen this behavour just once or twice.
personally I am very happy with the battery performanece as I can get easilly over 48 hours even more.

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Can depend on the type of battery.. Some can be shot or old... Also some roms have scripts in it that help cal the battery... Which can do some funky stat readings....
I haven't had this issue since I been running a stock build..... Have you let it die dead and let it get a full charge over night?

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When I first flashed viperROM 2.1.1 I followed some instructions I found in a forum, I think, for calibrating the battery. If I remember correctly, what I did was charge the battery to 100%, clear the battery stats (which I've since read is just a placebo), drained the battery till the phone died, charged to 100% again, let the battery drain till it died a 2nd time and the charged it to 100% again. Then I used it normally. This procedure didn't seem to do anything, positive or negative.
And after reading the posts by @gunfromsako I looked at Battery Monitor Widget, which I've been using for quite some time, and my phone gets up to 4361mV. Not only that but after looking those numbers over I notice that it can climb to 4359 or 4361 before it ever reaches 100% charged. Then when it finally gets to 100% it can already be back down to 4258. Look at my screenshot. It went from 4359 at 99% charged to 4258 at 100% charged! AndI've actually seen it at 4359 when it's just 78% charged. What is the deal with this phone?!?
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died4u525 said:
When I first flashed viperROM 2.1.1 I followed some instructions I found in a forum, I think, for calibrating the battery. If I remember correctly, what I did was charge the battery to 100%, clear the battery stats (which I've since read is just a placebo), drained the battery till the phone died, charged to 100% again, let the battery drain till it died a 2nd time and the charged it to 100% again. Then I used it normally. This procedure didn't seem to do anything, positive or negative.
And after reading the posts by @gunfromsako I looked at Battery Monitor Widget, which I've been using for quite some time, and my phone gets up to 4361mV. Not only that but after looking those numbers over I notice that it can climb to 4359 or 4361 before it ever reaches 100% charged. Then when it finally gets to 100% it can already be back down to 4258. Look at my screenshot. It went from 4359 at 99% charged to 4258 at 100% charged! AndI've actually seen it at 4359 when it's just 78% charged. What is the deal with this phone?!?
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Have you tried any other non tweaked roms to see if it fixes it? Also try another battery..

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I just looked back at the log that Battery Monitor Widget keeps and this was definitely happening BEFORE I rooted. I thought it started after but I think the logs are more accurate than my memory.
@reaper24 I've only ever tried the ROM I'm on right now which is viperROM 2.1.1. I really want to try MeanROM. I'm not sure what would be a "non-tweaked" ROM though I'm sure MeanROM is not included since that ROM seems to be tweaked to the max. LOL
Also I unfortunately don't have another battery to test.
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died4u525 said:
I just looked back at the log that Battery Monitor Widget keeps and this was definitely happening BEFORE I rooted. I thought it started after but I think the logs are more accurate than my memory.
@reaper24 I've only ever tried the ROM I'm on right now which is viperROM 2.1.1. I really want to try MeanROM. I'm not sure what would be a "non-tweaked" ROM though I'm sure MeanROM is not included since that ROM seems to be tweaked to the max. LOL
Also I unfortunately don't have another battery to test.
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BMW is a good reference but I don't trust it totally. Like others have suggested a battery calibration will help. Usually for me after 3-4 cycles it starts to level out. It will start reporting weird if im doing a bunch of flashing too. None of this really bothers me, I know my battery all too well and can tell when it is lying... Lol
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gunfromsako said:
BMW is a good reference but I don't trust it totally. Like others have suggested a battery calibration will help. Usually for me after 3-4 cycles it starts to level out. It will start reporting weird if im doing a bunch of flashing too. None of this really bothers me, I know my battery all too well and can tell when it is lying... Lol
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Just show it some TLC
@OP
I would give it a while if it still dicks up... Go to another rom.... Last thing is a battery... If that isn't any good ... Another charger If all else is dicked take to sprint

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Given that I've seen BMW Pro show +25000mv, and other interesting readings I certainly don't trust it, and that's on a O2X, not a Evo 3D.
Anything over 4.2v is bad for Li-ion, also letting the battery totally die is bad for it, and will shorten it's life span. So.. either your phones are reading the voltage of the battery incorrectly or your phone is dangerously charging the battery. If the tech used in the battery was 3.8v rather than 3.7v li-ion then it wouldn't be a problem, but 3.7v li-ion max is 4.2, and 3.8v li-ion max is I believe 4.3v (They are incompatible battery types with chargers btw).
For reference, mine show's up as fully charged @ 4.212v which is higher than I would actually like it to be.
I can't help on the 'jumping' issue.. I would take a look at the voltage to see what's going on with the battery. If the battery (look at voltage graph) is draining gradually/smoothly with no sudden drop, then something is messed up with the stats most likely.

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My phone's battery reporting is unbelievably horrible! Ok so after reading some of the posts here, I tried rebooting the phone to get an accurate reading of how much of a charge I had left. The first couple of times I did this, days apart, the number went down a lot! I've done it 3 times in the last day and now the number goes UP!
Just now, it had 2% left and I just plugged in and rebooted. It went all the way up to 22%. So I unplugged the phone and the percentage starting dropping at an insanely impossible rate. It dropped 2% per minute on average and as fast as 2% in 30 seconds with a couple of drops while on the homescreen & Tapatalk. So I let it continue to drop and it got down to 7% and died. I'm assuming that means that 2% was the correct reading before I rebooted the phone. I did get about 7 1/2 hours off that charge with the screen on the whole time. Not sure how good that is but it seems decent to me.
How am I supposed to have any clue at all how much of a charge this thing has because obviously even rebooting the phone doesn't give me an accurate reading!!* I just don't know what to do with it anymore. I have no idea how much battery power is left at any point in time. I've tried a few different apps that show the voltage and they all show the same number. The same goes for the battery percentage, so its the phone itself thats reporting wrong, not an app. I even cleared the battery stats, despite reading that it doesn't work. I figured it was worth a try. I did that once in recovery and I tried the Battery Calibration app that was recommended here as well. Would a new battery make any difference at all since it seems like its the phone thats reporting the percentage wrong? I mean the battery lasts for a decent amount if time, tho not as long as I would like but thats typical with these phones.
@Scougar you said that if it was 3.8v then the voltage would be OK. Well I took my battery out and looked at it and on the back it says "Rating 3.8vdc." Is that the number you're talking about? Btw thats the stock battery. And it actually goes as high as 4364 mV sometimes. Even if its rated for 4300 its still going quite an bit higher than it should but I guess there's nothing that can be done about that?
Sorry for the length of this post. LOL
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