I am curious of this was an isolated incident, my phone started shutting off on me even though it had 20% battery left. No warning. Sometimes it would turn off at 40%. It would also not charge. When the phone would be plugged into the charger, it would get HOT. Later though, the phone would get HOT regardless if it was plugged into the charger or not. Also had issues with the blue tooth but that could of been a software issue. It would connect to my car's radio but could not play music through it, I would have to shut the phone off and then turn it back on.
I got my new phone in, already S-Off it and its up and running good with Quicksense.
Anyone ever had this issue?
Bad battery?
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Same thing I was thinking...
Ah yes I forgot to mention, I used 3 different batteries, same thing happened to all 3. HTC neglected to ship me a battery, so I am using the 3 batteries I have. Primarily I use Anker 1900mah
Batteries works fine on my new HTC Amaze. As soon as I would use the battery on the broken phone, it would get instantly hot. Doesn't happen on my new phone. Standard life for my battery was between 12 to 16 hours depending on how I use the phone. With the defective phone, it would get hot and within 3 hours it was dead, couldn't even charge it as the phone would give me an error saying it's not getting enough juice. It was fine last week, this started happening a few days ago.
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Ah yes I forgot to mention, I used 3 different batteries, same thing happened to all 3. HTC neglected to ship me a battery, so I am using the 3 batteries I have. Primarily I use Anker 1900mah
Batteries works fine on my new HTC Amaze. As soon as I would use the battery on the broken phone, it would get instantly hot. Doesn't happen on my new phone. Standard life for my battery was between 12 to 16 hours depending on how I use the phone. With the defective phone, it would get hot and within 3 hours it was dead, couldn't even charge it as the phone would give me an error saying it's not getting enough juice. It was fine last week, this started happening a few days ago.
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I have a similar problem with my Anker 1900s. They go down normally to about 25%, then basically drop to almost zero in a couple of minutes. I have no problems with the stock battery.
I've had (might still have) a problem with the stock battery shutting down the phone at random % (even at 90), then restarting with a much lower one. Sometimes it would not even want to turn on. I'm currently using my chichitec 1900mAh battery, and it seems to be ok. Will be calling HTC to get a new stock battery, once I can confirm that it is, indeed, the cause for all this.
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I've had (might still have) a problem with the stock battery shutting down the phone at random % (even at 90), then restarting with a much lower one. Sometimes it would not even want to turn on. I'm currently using my chichitec 1900mAh battery, and it seems to be ok. Will be calling HTC to get a new stock battery, once I can confirm that it is, indeed, the cause for all this.
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I ruled out the batteries, unless all 3 can go bad all at once and cause the phone to heat up. Those same battery are in my new phone, no issues.
Check the battery contacts on the device itself...something may be bridging them or something along that line.
This is crazy. Did you check to see if the contacts are clean? And also check the USB port to see if anything has moved or lodged inside. I would recommend an air can to get the tight spots.
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Tried that already. Something short circuiting somewhere...
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I am curious of this was an isolated incident, my phone started shutting off on me even though it had 20% battery left. No warning. Sometimes it would turn off at 40%. It would also not charge. When the phone would be plugged into the charger, it would get HOT. Later though, the phone would get HOT regardless if it was plugged into the charger or not. Also had issues with the blue tooth but that could of been a software issue. It would connect to my car's radio but could not play music through it, I would have to shut the phone off and then turn it back on.
I got my new phone in, already S-Off it and its up and running good with Quicksense.
Anyone ever had this issue?
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I'm having the same problem too were the phone is shutting it's self off. Usually after a reboot the batt level has dropped quite a lot. Sometimes it goes right down to zero. You can see in the screen shots were suddenly there is a huge drop in batt levels, you can even see where it goes to zero.
At first I thought it was just the Rom i installed (xboarder's) but i've flashed ICS Speed Rom and having the same problem.
I have noticed almost every single shutdown has happened at work where I get a very poor radio reception, almost as if this if causing the shutdowns..
Maybe 2 problems at the same time combining to make it worse. Some days I can get 6 or 7 shutdowns at work.
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I'm having the same problem too were the phone is shutting it's self off. Usually after a reboot the batt level has dropped quite a lot. Sometimes it goes right down to zero. You can see in the screen shots were suddenly there is a huge drop in batt levels, you can even see where it goes to zero.
At first I thought it was just the Rom i installed (xboarder's) but i've flashed ICS Speed Rom and having the same problem.
I have noticed almost every single shutdown has happened at work where I get a very poor radio reception, almost as if this if causing the shutdowns..
Maybe 2 problems at the same time combining to make it worse. Some days I can get 6 or 7 shutdowns at work.
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have you not read my post in this thread? it very well could be your battery. i'm having very similar issues with the oem battery, but not on the aftermarket one yet.
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have you not read my post in this thread? it very well could be your battery. i'm having very similar issues with the oem battery, but not on the aftermarket one yet.
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And I am having the problem with aftermarket batteries, but not OEM!
Sudden drop offs like this are characteristic of a failing battery.
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Me and my wife have the Eris. no phones were rooted.
My phone was manually updated to 2.1 and my wifes was OTA.
before i go to bed i turn off the data signal and clear out all programs running with task killer. it was 60% charged, come to wake up in the morning and find that the battery fully discharged and had to plug it in the mains to switch it on. a few days after my wifes phone is doing the same.
would like some ideas from you guys on some of the reasons this may be happening. would love to provide you with more information... just tell me what and where i can get it from.
Thanks.
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the same thing happens to me but in a different manner. This started about 3 days ago as far as i could notice. While the phone is in my pocket it would randomly get really hot and most of my battery would be drained. This usually happens in the middle of the day. I have to shut the phone down and restart it and then I would not notice the problem for rest of the day. I have 2.1 V3 leak installed on my phone. any ideas as why this is happening?
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the same thing happens to me but in a different manner. This started about 3 days ago as far as i could notice. While the phone is in my pocket it would randomly get really hot and most of my battery would be drained. This usually happens in the middle of the day. I have to shut the phone down and restart it and then I would not notice the problem for rest of the day. I have 2.1 V3 leak installed on my phone. any ideas as why this is happening?
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Wow...that is strangely similar to what is happening to mine. It just started a few days ago as well.
I got up this morning with a fully charged phone (it takes all of 10 hours to completely charge, if it does fully at all) and after looking at facebook and reading a few news articles for about 2 hours, my phone was at approx. 60%.
This happens every day now and I end up chasing a charge all days between the ac adapter and my car charger. I'm getting sick of carrying my charger with me all day but I have to.
Mine is also getting hot. I first noticed this Tuesday as I was using Tapatalk while the phone was charging via wall charger and it got hot and just died. I had to wait about 30 minutes for it to cool and then it would boot up.
Like you said, this just started recently and I am also running Leak v3. I have removed all widgets and taken off everything I don't absolutely need off of the phone (apps, that is) but no change. Just as an example, I have had mine connected via usb to my work pc since 5 pm (it's now 1:20 am) and it is still not completely charged.
It gets to about 85-90% but will not close out to a full charge for hours. I just ordered a new battery today to see if I have just "overcharged" mine, so if that works I'm gonna get a premium (1750 mah) battery maybe and try that.
Very strange. I'd say within the past few days, my phone has had considerably worse battery life as well. Usually I'm pretty good about killing apps and there was one day where I forgot for most of the day.
I recharged it to full last night and have been killing apps and keeping an eye on it all day and it is still giving me poor results. I'm rooted and running a 2.1v3 ROM atm.
try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6137989&postcount=23
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Long press power/end button. Turn Airplane mode ON. Press the power/end button to put your phone into sleep. Press power/end button to come out of sleep. Turn Airplane mode off.
The cell standby percentage will/should eventually go down to 0%.
or dont use task managers / killers. there is no use for it on the phone. android has a built in task killer that is really smart.
could be cell signal as well
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Hey guys, I solved the issue, i used the *#*#4636#*#* and in my settings it was trying to search for a GSM signal, so i changed it back to CDMA auto PRL
It was very strange it would do that but still its been running like a champ now, thanks everyone.
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Hey guys, I solved the issue, i used the *#*#4636#*#* and in my settings it was trying to search for a GSM signal, so i changed it back to CDMA auto PRL
It was very strange it would do that but still its been running like a champ now, thanks everyone.
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When I do this and look at the battery history, it says
Running 100%
Screen on 9%
Phone on .6%
and my battery level is at 58% currently. Mine is already set to CDMA/Auto PRL and my battery life within the last week or so has utterly SUCKED! I get up and unplug it at 3:30 am (fully charged) and go to my first job. By the time I get to my second job at around 10-10:15, I have to plug it in because it's very low. All I use it for at my first job is to check the time every once in a while. I dont play games on it, surf the web, etc. WHY should my battery be draining this fast when Im not using it!? Im seriously thinking about trading this POS in. Im so tired of this laggy, battery sucking phone!
I have the same problem. I turn on the mobile network only when I use it. ill turn on network with a full charge and check the news for maybe 5-10 minutes and my battery is down 10-15%. I haven't always had this problem. It started maybe a couple weeks ago. I'm using Android 2.1 leaked v3. I cent wait for my phone upgrade. This phone would be perfect for me if it wasn't for the HORRIBLE battery life.
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Mine is already set to CDMA/Auto PRL and my battery life within the last week or so has utterly SUCKED!
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I thought the same thing because it said cdma/auto prl when I got to like step 2 but I hadn't pushed menu and gotten the force close which then brought up the screen that did have gsm listed instead.
Just make sure you go through all the steps listed there...
Just out of curiousity, which Facebook version do you have? You have an app keeping your phone awake 100% of the time which is why your battery is draining and the 2 latest versions of the Facebook app are known to do that. If it isn't that app, download Spare Parts from the market and use it to check what is using the most under Partial Wake usage, the app and the top using the most battery will be the culprit.
Bought the $35 Chichitec batteries (2) and charger off Amazon for $35. They have a good rating and I needed some spares. On the first discharge, I was down to about 40% and decided to restart my phone using hold-power, restart, normal. I was running CleanROM 2.9.5 which I had been on for about two weeks without issue. This time when I restarted, the phone soft-bricked on boot with the screen blank but I could still see the faint backlight on. I gave it the three finger salute (virtual battery pull) and it restarted and looked OK... until I started to use it. Literally everything I tried including internet, camera, messages, people... all FC. I restarted again. Same thing. Everything forced closed as soon as I started it plus some of the auto-start stuff forced closed while booting.
Next I did a physical battery pull and left the battery out for about 10 minutes. No change. Still NFG. So then I decided, no problem, I have a pretty recent Nandroid backup so I'll just restore. Booted into recovery no problem, went to Nandroid, recovered the backup: all messages said backup has been recovered and no errors. Rebooted the phone and the Nandroid backup didn't even work! It was as if it did nothing! I could tell that nothing had changed. Even after the Nandroid, the phone still had apps, SMS messages, etc. from that same day even though the Nandroid was from 2 weeks earlier. Not only that, the FC's were still there and the phone was basically still "soft bricked" because you couldn't do anything with it even though the home screen looked "normal". As soon as you touched anything, FC's out the wazoo.
I started thinking about what changed and what might have happened and ended up on the Chichitec battery: first time I've used it. I plugged the phone into AC power, did a normal restart with the phone plugged into AC power and guess what? It booted and acted normally! I charged the battery all the way back up and because I didn't know what state the phone was in, I did a full wipe and install of the latest CleanROM DE 2.0. Been fine ever since.
So my thought/question is... could something with this Chichitec battery have caused this? I thought about undervoltage but if it was that, wouldn't the battery meter be reading low? Or maybe it was a low voltage transient that is quick, caused by the battery dropping too much voltage when under high demand? I know the battery draws a full amp during boot, so maybe during high draw periods like that, the battery's voltage dropped too low and caused the CPU to take a dump. Weird thing is, it kept doing it until I plugged the charger in, at which point it cleared up immediately. It does seem to be a power problem and a pretty serious one if Nandroid can be run, appear to work normally, but in fact the Nandroid did nothing???!!!
WTF is going on? Anyone experienced anything similar?
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I've been using them since shortly after launch and haven't had any issues. Something may have just gotten corrupted when you did the reset, I don't think the battery itself would be able to cause something like that.
Yeah I have two chichitec batteries and I have no problems with them either.
I've been using 2 chichitech batteries for a while. My only problem is that they seem to lose more battery while screen is off than normal batteries. My phone is probably awake 10-25% of the time of screen is off and with stock batteries, I will lose 2-5% overnight. With the chichitech, I lose around 10-25%. Other than that, they preform better during normal usage.
But yeah, your issue is pretty strange. I'll remember this incase I get the same problem.
I think it was most likely a corrupt sd card. I've has it happen to me with similar symptoms.
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I've been using 2 chichitech batteries for a while. My only problem is that they seem to lose more battery while screen is off than normal batteries. My phone is probably awake 10-25% of the time of screen is off and with stock batteries, I will lose 2-5% overnight. With the chichitech, I lose around 10-25%. Other than that, they preform better during normal usage.
But yeah, your issue is pretty strange. I'll remember this incase I get the same problem.
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Hmm I haven't had your issue either....what I do like is the chichitec batteries fit a tighter in the battery slot than the stock batteries.
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Hmm I haven't had your issue either....what I do like is the chichitec batteries fit a tighter in the battery slot than the stock batteries.
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Yeah, the stock battery could have packed some more power with that extra lost space.
I have chichitec, and fortunately haven't had the same problem, but the battery life wore out pretty fast, when I sent them an email about it I got a coupon code for 10% off my next purchase. That's all they replied with. Haha, good luck with ChiChi.
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I've read and read, searched and searched this forum and have not come across my exact problem yet...
I know there have been overheating issues, and I know there have been boot looping problems... all causing terrible battery life, mine has neither. Let me rephrase, my overheating issue is not due to me actually using the phone... On idle (with the screen off), my Rezound only lasts about 2 hours on a full battery. Granted, I live in an area where there isn't full service, but there is some service. I can watch as data is being exchanged with no apps running. What the hell is using data? I have a feeling this is what is killing my battery, the phone is not at all sleeping. I have deselected "always on data" and I turned off fast boot and auto sync.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, my phone is a bone stock refurb.
Try a factory reset maybe?
I can do that, but it doesn't really solve the problem. It just started doing this yesterday. I've had it over 2 months and haven't downloaded anything different. I would really rather just figure out what is causing it, so I don't have to do a factory reset every time something like this happens. You know? Thanks for your suggestion, I'm afraid that is going to be my last resort right before exchanging it...
Try exchanging the battery first. Start small. Work your way up to the big stuff(exchanging the phone). Why give up the customizations you've done if you just have a bad battery?
I was thinking it may be a bad battery, but it concerns me that I can watch the data stay running even though I'm not using anything that requires it. My brother has a Rezound and I placed mine next to his and literally watched the battery life deplete 10% in 5 minutes while his lost no percentage at all, both were idle with the same screen settings. Is it common for a battery to fail that drastically out of nowhere?
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I was thinking it may be a bad battery, but it concerns me that I can watch the data stay running even though I'm not using anything that requires it. My brother has a Rezound and I placed mine next to his and literally watched the battery life deplete 10% in 5 minutes while his lost no percentage at all, both were idle with the same screen settings. Is it common for a battery to fail that drastically out of nowhere?
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Is it common....no, possible yes, plausible given the circumstances....absolutely.
sanders858 said:
I was thinking it may be a bad battery, but it concerns me that I can watch the data stay running even though I'm not using anything that requires it. My brother has a Rezound and I placed mine next to his and literally watched the battery life deplete 10% in 5 minutes while his lost no percentage at all, both were idle with the same screen settings. Is it common for a battery to fail that drastically out of nowhere?
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If data is constantly being used, something HAS to be using your data. I'd get an app like better battery stats and CPU spy. CPU will show you if your phone is going into sleep mode at all and better battery stats can show you which apps may be causing it.
Do you have the 4G antenna on?
I have betterbatterystats, it shows android system at the top of processes. That program is a little difficult to understand since everything is abbreviated.
I appreciate all of your responses. I just got off the phone with Verizon, they're sending me another phone AND battery for good measure. During lunch today I watched the percentage of my battery deplete while it was plugged into the wall and not being used, used a different charger, nothing. It wasn't even hot. I turned the phone off to try to get it to charge. when I turned it back on, it got to the lockscreen and then restarted itself. Boot looping now. I'm not going to fool with it anymore. Maybe the third Rezound will be better.
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Do you have the 4G antenna on?
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I haven't changed anything from out of the box other than visual properties. I'm assuming the network has a little to do with it, but it started failing way too fast to be a radio problem IMO.
I received my 2nd Rezound last week. First one had the hiss/feedback/interference issue through the headphone jack that escalated to a level of to not being able to use the headphones at all without being painful. Anyway, the new one is running very hot (battery) and is draining the battery almost as fast as you're describing yours to do. I've used both the standard battery and extended. This morning while using it at home on wifi with most of my syncs either disabled or set at a min of 2 hrs it drained my extended battery by 20% in 20 mins. I wasn't even using the internet or streaming any music or video. I was working on setting up calender and task list widgets. Phone is stock, not rooted. I will be calling Verizon tonight to see about getting a 3rd one. Sucks as I really like this phone when it's working properly. If the 3rd one has issues to and HTC isn't rolling out any fixes for them I might have to look at something else. But I don't want to!
I feel like if I can get the hardware to cooperate with me, I can get the software to. I was planning on rooting after the ICS push, but the phone obviously had different plans.
Set your phone to CDMA only, especially if you don't live in an area with LTE coverage. You will see significant battery advantages from that alone.
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Set your phone to CDMA only, especially if you don't live in an area with LTE coverage. You will see significant battery advantages from that alone.
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Thanks, I'll be sure to try that when I get my new phone tomorrow!
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Set your phone to CDMA only, especially if you don't live in an area with LTE coverage. You will see significant battery advantages from that alone.
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I should have mentioned that I'd already done that (only 3G here anyway). I've done all the battery management tricks I've read about but this phone has an issue. I'm not even getting half the battery life out of it that I was on the 1st one. And the battery gets significantly hotter then the other phone.
tried wiping battery stats after 100% and drained/recharged a few times?
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Check this out boys and girls. Approximately 2 months ago I got a new stock battery to replace the original that was causing reboots, which then showed the battery level at 0.
Started using the new battery and the same thing started last week. Reboot, low battery even when it was recently fully charged.
So I put the original in which hadn't been used in 2 months. Blast a full charge, wipe stats. And sure as ****, it works fine.
I almost wonder if it sitting for a spell and not being charged "refreshes" or replenished the life?
I'll keep you updated but thought it was weird.
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Sounds like it's worth a shot...awaiting your results.
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There's something definitely fishy with the amaze. I had 2 of them, and I'd swap batteries with different charges, say one had 80% and one had 40%. After swapping the one amaze would read close to what the other did, within a couple percent, and the other one was way off, like 30% higher, and it would die way before reaching zero. Funny thing it was only the one that did that with a battery swap, so the amaze is just weird when it comes to reading the battery charge.
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There's something definitely fishy with the amaze. I had 2 of them, and I'd swap batteries with different charges, say one had 80% and one had 40%. After swapping the one amaze would read close to what the other did, within a couple percent, and the other one was way off, like 30% higher, and it would die way before reaching zero. Funny thing it was only the one that did that with a battery swap, so the amaze is just weird when it comes to reading the battery charge.
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either the hard ware is the problem, or the firmware/software is problematic... i'm leaning to both
Yep same here for me. My battery stats are honky all the time and its frustrating. Sometimes when its at 20 percent I take the battery out then put it back in and goes up to 54 percent ...what gives?
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nelly_85 said:
Yep same here for me. My battery stats are honky all the time and its frustrating. Sometimes when its at 20 percent I take the battery out then put it back in and goes up to 54 percent ...what gives?
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It's not jstu the stats Nelly. It's the overall performance and the intermittent shut offs. Since putting the "old" battery back in I can report that after 1 week I have had zero shut offs. Battery is giving me about 7 hours on heavy usage.
Cant figure it out.
Definitely leaves me scratching my head at times.
I just started having a similar issue.
For example, I would be checking my email, or checking facebook, then BAM! Phone reboots/shuts off. The battery icon says I have 47% but in ext4 i have 85%. Wipe battery stats in ext4, works fine for like 30min. Same **** starts again.
Going through this everyday since 3days ago.
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ce3jay said:
I just started having a similar issue.
For example, I would be checking my email, or checking facebook, then BAM! Phone reboots/shuts off. The battery icon says I have 47% but in ext4 i have 85%. Wipe battery stats in ext4, works fine for like 30min. Same **** starts again.
Going through this everyday since 3days ago.
using 8.6.12 energy rom
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Have you contacted HTC. Call HTC direct and explain the issue. Ask them to send you a replacement battery. Stay calm, nice and let them know you need a new battery. They will ask you for a credit card to put on file and will tell you to return the old battery. If you dont have a cc ask them to speak with a suprevisor. They can waive the CC requirement if you are polite and don't get into a shouting match. As far as my battery, i am back to my original and it seems to be doing good still. I did have one reboot last week. But that's about it.
ce3jay said:
I just started having a similar issue.
For example, I would be checking my email, or checking facebook, then BAM! Phone reboots/shuts off. The battery icon says I have 47% but in ext4 i have 85%. Wipe battery stats in ext4, works fine for like 30min. Same **** starts again.
Going through this everyday since 3days ago.
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Well, you can stop wiping battery stats as a step, since it does nothing.. tons of info out there to show this is 100% fact https://www.google.com/search?q=wiping+battery+stats+does+nothing
If the engineer who helped design android isn't a good source, not sure who is.
As for the accuracy of reading the battery, pretty sure everyone has this issue.. someone recently posted something about the sensor being low quality, but who knows.
Apart from having reboots(which is an issue likely unrelated to battery except for maybe the OP), if you know your battery has 20%, but after a reboot it says you have more/less.. why does this matter, you know you have 20% worth of life left.
As for the OP, you may want to try flashing the stock RUU as there may be a serious problem with your system files, and flashing the RUU in the bootloader is the quickest way to know that EVERYTHING has flashed properly. Instructions in the bible in my signature.
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Apart from having reboots(which is an issue likely unrelated to battery except for maybe the OP), if you know your battery has 20%, but after a reboot it says you have more/less.. why does this matter, you know you have 20% worth of life left.
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It matters to me. A few times the battery icon/widget says 0 and the phone shuts off. I use the Vol and Power to get into recovery, and it says 20% or whatever it may be. Sure, I know it has 20%, but the OS detects it at 0 and shuts off.
I just remembered, a day or two before my initial post, my battery became super hot. I remember this because, I had the phone in my pocket, and it got really hot. Battery monitor widget reported the temp at 129 deg F. I guess the battery is shot.
I already ordered 2 anker batteries w/the wall charger.
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I already ordered 2 anker batteries w/the wall charger.
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I had the same issue about a month ago. Since receiving my Ankers no problems at all. On top of that 18-24 hours on a single battery is a pretty amazing perk for a $25 purchase
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Just got my ankers in last night. Gonna test for the next few days. I'll post my results
EDIT: 9.05.12 0250hrs
Been testing out the batteries extensively. OC'ing, flashing roms, backing and restoring in ext4, netflix, games, and LOTS of data lol. No random shutoffs as of yet.
I'm on Bulletproof 2.5 and after unplugging my Amaze, it stays at 100% (or whatever % i unplugged it at) for 10-30 minutes then my battery goes down by 2% increments and sometimes it hangs around at a random % for about 15 minutes and then continues its 2% increments again. Does any one have a similar issue? Is there a fix since wiping battstats does nothing.
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Me and my wife have both an amaze. Her phone started to do the same thing and a couple of weeks after hers mine started. Since I'm an electronic technician I knew there has to be a problem with the connection on the battery. After inspecting the batteries I noticed that the four connections on both batteries had deep marks on them. To fix them, I used a small flat screwdriver and using the flat side scratched the four connections until the deep marks where mostly gone. It's been 3 months since I did that on both batteries and the problem hasn't come back. FYI the two connections on both ends are the + and - and the ones in the center are used for reading the battery status. Hope this help those with this annoying problem.
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I have been meaning to post in here about how great my battery life has been, especially after seeing all of the threads complaining about it. I have been going home after a 9 hour day with 70-80% and even with extreme use, I have had no issues.
That being said, today my battery drained inexplicably fast for no reason. I checked my background apps and closed a few, but the battery drain persisted, so I rebooted.
Anyone else having this issue or know what causes it? This is the first incident I have had in almost a week. The last app I launched before this happened was Inrix traffic. Battery life has been beautiful, otherwise.
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the battery drain persisted, so I rebooted.
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That's the fix I use. I now call my 920's battery life non-deterministic. It's great, except when it's not. When it's not, even if it looks like it should be because nothing is running, a reboot fixes it. Until the next time.
I would be shocked if there weren't an OS update to fix whatever process is going rouge and running away with the battery. Because it's something in the OS. Or at least its something the user cannot remedy, short of taking off and nuking the site from space.
I've noticed this a lot too. I killed a whole load of background apps and the battery life got a lot better. Then it got much worse again.
I believe my main problem is that I live in a low signal area. So I drain the whole thing in about 10-11 hours, even when out working the majority of the day.
One thing I have found is that the radios in the handset are very badly shielded compared to my previous handsets. This does mean that I can hear when the phone is sending out signals/utilising the radios. It does this a lot, even when it does have signal. It must consume a massive amount of power.
I get roughly 5-6 hours or so. Charger I bought on Amazon no longer does the trick (it's one that plugs into the cigerette lighter in your car and two USB outs). I have to bring with me the power cord and an inverter to keep it charged up so it makes it through the day.
I've got NFC and Bluetooth turned off, Wi-Fi on and the phone set to 3G mode. I get pretty solid battery life out of it.
When I feel the back of the phone getting warm, I reboot and it's good for awhile. I too would be surprised if there isn't an OS update to fix this issue.
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I am heaving same issue with battery. Phone worked fine first 10 days and it started to be warm on the top back. Life of the battery can not last a day and i am a heavy user.
As somebody mentioned in comment to turn off this and that- i don't think so. I did not buy phone to keep everything off on it.
If in airplane mode. had couple pictures and few other things, this is what you get out of your battery.
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If in airplane mode. had couple pictures and few other things, this is what you get out of your battery.
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Excellent. I'll just keep my phone in Airplane mode all the time! What was I thinking, leaving the cell radio on?
I've just had 2 great days life out of mine. Off charge at 6am and currently sat at 58% at 4pm. I've been streaming a podcast from the internet via bluetooth for 90 minutes and I've been tethering too, as well as all the usual stuff, so it's not like it's been sat idle all day. I've even been using Nokia Drive to get to work this morning (I teach at many different schools) whilst streaming media off the web and bluetoothing it to the stereo and it's not hit it bad. Seems very power conservative where internet streaming and GPS is concerned.
I have battery level for WP8 installed and it has a graph so you can see when the battery level is dropping off. I've noticed solid battery drain from running the Audible app which continues after the app is closed. Rebooting solves this. I have been working in an area with excellent signal recently though, that may have made a big difference. I get 9-10mbps on HSPA at the moment. I do, of course, have NFC turned off.
Hopefully Portico will be here soon and solve some of these power problems.