Hi all,
I picked up my sg2 this evening and couldn't turn it on. This was very strange since the last time I had it in my hands I was sure it was around 75%...
I attached charger and after a short while charging began but with a yellow triangle over the battery animation. I still couldn't turn on the phone.. After a while I could turn on phone, and battery status was 2%.
Android battery status showed a suddenly and instant dive to 0 from around 70%. Better batterystats indicates no extraordinary points.
Is my battery close to dying? Anyone else experienced this?
My phone is currently running stock ICS, unrooted.
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Dont think its the battery as i had same problem on GB yesterday .
95% at power off battery dead twelve hours later .
Recharged all ok and held its charge for twelve hours .
Why not a clue .
jje
Same as me
From 40% down to 0% in 1min
Had to plugin the charger to even be able to start the phone again!
Checked battery usage and i could clearly see in the graph that battery was 40% then suddenly BOOM! The green line turns to red and shows up in the bottom red corner!
This is messed up
I had the same issue after flashing to LPQ (with Three UK's CSC). The phone was zapping more power than the charger could even put in!
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Hello everyone!
Firstly I am totally happy with my new Galaxy S2. But then happened something strange....
Yesterday evening I plugged in my phone and loaded it fully, I played a few games for about 1 1/2 hours and the battery was fully loaded, then I turned off my phone (and it seems that it made an full shutdown, because it turns the lights off and vibrates when it shutdown successfully).
Today in the morning I wanted to turn on my phone... nothing happened After a few tries to turn it on... I plugged it in... and see there... it loads... from 0%??!
How is this possible if the phone was shutdown all the time?!
I have original rom, nothing modified yet and there are no updates available for my phone.
How is this possible if the phone was shutdown all the time?!
No answer to that if it was a charged and shut off .
jje
GeryD said:
Hello everyone!Yesterday evening I plugged in my phone and loaded it fully, I played a few games for about 1 1/2 hours and the battery was fully loaded
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What do you mean by that? You were playing for 1½ hours and the battery was fully loaded !, or you kept it charging while playing
Regards.
ithehappy said:
What do you mean by that? You were playing for 1½ hours and the battery was fully loaded !, or you kept it charging while playing
Regards.
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I kept it charging while I was playing (it already was fully loaded at this moment) and later I turned my phone off with 100% battery. XD
In the morning it was not possible to turn it on, so I plugged it in again and it shows the loading screen with an totally empty battery and an yellow triangle. I really don't understand how this is possible..
Yellow Triangle? You are rooted right? And what other apps were you running when you turned your phone off, SetCPU or something like that?
No, I am not rooted not yet ^^
I think the yellow triangle appear when you plug in your galaxy S II and battery is lower than 5%. (When plugged in turned off)
Is it possible that gaming consumes much more energy even if plugged in? It's the only explanation for me at the moment. But this will also mean that the display of the battery don't update if fully charged and kept plugged in... mhmm.
GeryD said:
No, I am not rooted not yet ^^
I think the yellow triangle appear when you plug in your galaxy S II and battery is lower than 5%. (When plugged in turned off)
Is it possible that gaming consumes much more energy even if plugged in? It's the only explanation for me at the moment. But this will also mean that the display of the battery don't update if fully charged and kept plugged in... mhmm.
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Sorry I don't know about that. I thought Yellow triangle only appears when you are on an unsecured kernel/non official Samsung kernel, when rooted.
And while you were Gaming with charging, definitely Gaming took more battery out of your phone than the charging was filling in. But still, full drainage of 100% battery overnight is NOT normal, that's all I can say atm.
Regards.
This particular problem just happened to me. The yellow triangle in question (no photo for obvious reasons), is overlayed on top of the charging logo that appears when the phone is completely powered off.
I hoped it was my battery...not the case, like others, I believe the problem to be originating from a loose micro-usb connector. I slightly jiggled the usb side to side (very slightly) and the problem cleared up long enough to boot. It has returned and I am most displeased as I ordered from Expansys Canada and with a device I can't turn on and return to stock I am basically SOL.
Ugh, and I was hyping you guys up so much Samsung!
Your battery overheated and could not charge. When I play games and charge at the same time, the battery gets hot and I get an overheating notice. This is when you get the yellow triangle. It doesn't charge after that and I find that I have to remove the battery to get it to somehow "reset" the internal temperature sensor before it will charge again.
*kick* (since topic title fits my problem..)
So: battery nearly flat after reboot. Happened to me three times now, twice within one 'battery cycle'. First time it happened, the standard digital clock didn't refresh, so I restarted the phone. Before restart, battery was above 30%, after restart it was around 10. Afterwards, the level started climbing back towards 23 (hence, without me charging the device). Used it, so did not verify whether it would actually climb all the way back to its original level of over 30%, but the level seemed accurate because it lasted for many more hours until it reached 15%.
Last night, after a restart, batt dropped from high-20's to 8%. Because of the previous experience, I didn't charge, but let it be during the night. This morning, 8 hours later, batt level was back at 26%.. the battery graph showed a nice upward curve.
Couple of hours later, phone doesn't wake up and has switched off apparently. Startup reveals batt to be below 10% again.
Anyone experienced a similar scenario?
(Vodafone branded non-rooted GSII, PDA:KG2/Phone:KG1/CSC:KE2).
This has happened a couple of times more since then, I guess 6 times in total now. Have made screenshots of the battery level to provide an idea of what's happening, or at least, what it looks like. However, I can't post outside links yet.
Without recharging, battery level manages to climb back almost to initial level.
No-one with similar experiences? I have done no rooting, custom ROM's whatsoever.
(Vodafone branded GSII, PDA:KG2/Phone:KG1/CSC:KE2).
I was web browsing and suddenly the phone rebooted, and the battery charge dropped to the level seen in the screenshot. It's the first time happening. I'm on cm7 latest nightly with cg6.
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I've been messing with my phone all night, setting up screens and what not and it just died. I plugged it into the charger and nothing for a few minutes and then the LED turned on and was white. It wouldn't start or go into charging mode. I removed the battery several times and left it out for several minutes. After leaving it plugged in for a few minutes, the LED turned green but still no startup or charging mode. After several more minutes, it finally went into charge mode and the LED turned orange and was 0%! Another 10 minutes and it was 15% and booted fine. I would think I should get warnings and if ignored, the phone would shutdown before completely draining the battery. Is there a setting somewhere I don't know about?
I don't know about any warnings...there is a battery icon on the upper right that I'd think would be fairly hard to miss? Red means charge asap. But if its completely dead, once you plug it in you have to wait a few mins for a charge to build up before you can turn it on.
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*actually just got a popup message saying i have 15% battery left.
I had an issue once where my photon got stuck at 80% and ended up dying with no error message because it wasn't reading the battery properly. I was able to see in the battery usage after I got it back on that it plateaued at 80% for quite a while. I haven't had the issue since then, but maybe you had something similar happen.
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I had an issue once where my photon got stuck at 80% and ended up dying with no error message because it wasn't reading the battery properly. I was able to see in the battery usage after I got it back on that it plateaued at 80% for quite a while. I haven't had the issue since then, but maybe you had something similar happen.
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My battery indicator was stuck at 50% so it does sound like the same issue. I thought to myself "wow the battery life is much better than I thought". Guess some things are too good to be true.
Just for the record, I had a similar problem. My phone was reporting a charge of 100% but then I took out the battery, waited half a minute, and when I put it back it the phone said it only had 5% and had to charge it all the way back up!
Download Battery Monitor and put the widget on the home screen. See if its just the icon not updating or something more. I did notice once when it dropped "suddenly" but has not happened since.
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Download Battery Monitor and put the widget on the home screen. See if its just the icon not updating or something more. I did notice once when it dropped "suddenly" but has not happened since.
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I've had this for a while and used it quite a bit. I just noticed it can put the battery percentage in the notification bar and you can tell it to ignore the battery level the phone tells it and to calculate the battery to the nearest 1%! No more guessing what the actual battery level is!!!
Hey Guys and Gals
This morning my phone was completely drained so i plugged it into the wall plug to charge up. However it did not turn on and begin charging until i did a battery pull.
When it began charging, there was the little yellow triangle (normally there when my device has been drained). A couple of minutes after, the battery began charging BUT it was nearly full
So i switched on the device, went to Applications>Settings>About Phone>Status
There the battery read 96% and charging from AC. When i unplugged it, the numbers began literally jumping backwards and the phone died within two minutes.
I tried charging again and had to do a battery pull again. For good measure, i did a factory reset but the issue was there still, only, when it is plugged in, the battery slowly DECREASES :S maybe like 1% every 2 minutes.
Can someone please help me and let me know if it is a battery issue or a phone hardware issue itself?
Im running Gingerbread btw (downgraded from ICS about 3 weeks now because it sucked....and i missed GB lol)
crackerjr582 said:
Hey Guys and Gals
This morning my phone was completely drained so i plugged it into the wall plug to charge up. However it did not turn on and begin charging until i did a battery pull.
When it began charging, there was the little yellow triangle (normally there when my device has been drained). A couple of minutes after, the battery began charging BUT it was nearly full
So i switched on the device, went to Applications>Settings>About Phone>Status
There the battery read 96% and charging from AC. When i unplugged it, the numbers began literally jumping backwards and the phone died within two minutes.
I tried charging again and had to do a battery pull again. For good measure, i did a factory reset but the issue was there still, only, when it is plugged in, the battery slowly DECREASES :S maybe like 1% every 2 minutes.
Can someone please help me and let me know if it is a battery issue or a phone hardware issue itself?
Im running Gingerbread btw (downgraded from ICS about 3 weeks now because it sucked....and i missed GB lol)
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Easiest way to check is to use another battery in your phone and/or to test your battery in another phone.
So you only need to find someone with a compatible phone/battery.
Or go to a store and ask for help.
Good luck !
Or use a volt meter to test if your battery is dead ie <3.7, the s 2 tends to exaggerate the value more often than shrink the percentage of battery, but your case is a bit extreme, it might have to do from going from ics to gb, don't take my word but apparently its bad to downgrade from ics to gb
It shows me that the battery is 100% i open youtube watch about 2 minutes of videos and the phone turns off. I start it again and right after the boot image it turns off again. I plug in the charger , i turn on the phone , it shows 80%+ battery . If i plug out the cherger the phone turns off.
It's an software problem or the battery is gone?
battery could be bad.
What ROM are you on again?
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Stock ICS
hum....Let it drain till it's off, charge it full. After it gets to 100% remove the battery for like 2 min (make it 100 sec) and reinsert it.
See if it happens again, in the meantime ask someone who has an I9100 to lend you his/her battery for 15 min.
Sent from the little guy
This happens to my sister's phone. I also have an sgs2 and when she gave me her battery it did the same. I think it's the battery. It's gone
buy a new battery or change kernel
My sgs2 GT-I9100 got a new battery because the original one got swollowen , but now it also has problems occurred Recently,
Phone flickers and goes completely off at 40%-50% ,
Wont turn on again unless i plug it in but then it shows 0%,
Happens all the time,
So I restarted the phone at 50% to see SUPRISE then it shows less than 5% battery !
But after 50% its sure phone will go off any sec.
Is there a fix other than going to another new battery again? Tried the Battery Calibration app By a XDA member too...
UPDATE: Got anew battery ( 2nd battery purchase within a month) but it seems to be the problem continues..
Used the battery with the charge it came with... 60% browsed the web...... reached 35%...... Turned off again
Thinking that it happens because of a miscalibration so used the above mentioned app and calibrated at 100% drained till 40% ( light gaming) Went off again....:crying:
Please Help this is urgent!!!!!:fingers-crossed:
UPDATE 1
Did a Reset of the device and charged it fully with the brand new battery (left for couple of hrs after 100%) and I eventually drained it to 50% and did a restart I was left with 10% after.... didn't fixed
I'll try my best to help. Had this problem with an old laptop battery. I just looked a bit around and found that there are several apps that show you the real mAh. SInce I haven't tested of them I won't recommend any.
Are your contacs all clean? Can you measure the output of the battery with a voltage meter?
EDIT: Found this a few posts lower " just reset the fuel gauge chip (rooted) and you are good to go!"
Update flashed a stock jellybean rom lets see what happens