Hi, two weeks ago I dropped my SGS2 to snow and it was there 2 hours :/ After that im getting strange problems, my last 10% of battery drains in minutes and last 3% in seconds Second problem is that when battery is so low that my phone dies it wont charge, it only shows battery and triangle icon. I have tried 2 different ac chargers and usb chargers and tried even my girlfriends s2 battery, I have waited for 1,5 hours charging and the triangle icon is still there. I have used my girlfriends SGS2 to charge my battery. I always charge 5-10% and plug it back in my phone. I dont have any problem if I dont let my battery go under 15% anyone have similar issues? If some circuit is damaged is there anyway to replace / repair it? And sorry for my bad english
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Now my phone didn't wake from deep sleep, power was on but I need to reboot it. battery was 100% before and after 20min in deep sleep and reboot it was 85% I increased 100MHz, 200MHz and 500MHz by 25mV
to see if 1 of many problems goes away
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when was this snow drop?
gastonw said:
when was this snow drop?
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Like I said about two weeks ago.
Give the guy a break and leave it off for a day, battery off and all. Stuck it in a ziplocked bag of rice. Can't hurt to try.
Mine was under the rain last monday, everything's fine but I'ma do it anyway.
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gastonw said:
Give the guy a break and leave it off for a day, battery off and all. Stuck it in a ziplocked bag of rice. Can't hurt to try.
Mine was under the rain last monday, everything's fine but I'ma do it anyway.
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Allready tried, but I noticed that the charging problem have magically disappeared Only strange battery drain left :good:
Im hoping it to disappear when stable CyanogenMod JB comes out
yeap, check the fuel gauge. Glad to hear it's all good now.
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About week ago I reseted fuel gauge chip and noticed no change, I googled 2 hours and I find post about the same problem. Someone said that it can be software related issue and can be fixed with reflash. So I wait for offical jb update
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Yeah, it's about to roll out any time now.
Now after 2 weeks of fuel gauge chip reset all problems have disappeared and battery life is very good. Now I have 70% left, phone have been 1d 2h on battery. I have used the phone 1.5h with wifi so nothing bad to say
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hey guys not a noob but feel like one right now bc i have to ask this.
anyways i have a vibrant running nero 5 w/voodoo. my charger port is iffy at best. i ordered a new usb port off ebay and will be installing it once it arrives.
now the phone charges fine off, however i noticed that when im on it while plugged in charging its loosing percentage. i just finished charging it and turned the phone back on and kept it plugged in to top off the last 4 percent it had to go to 100. and when i check in settings it says 88% about 5 mins later it said 86%
any ideas?
i also did a search and didnt really find anything
I've had this issue since day 1. I've had my vibrant for almost a year now and it's never changed. It's happened on stock and all roms I've used. It seems to happen more when I'm using memory heavy apps or games. I used to play pocket legends and I once drained my battery (while plugged in) so much that I went from %100 down so low my phone died. The charger never lost connection either.
I've also had this happen while streaming tv shows to my phone & using tv out while charging.
Happens to me sometimes. I figured it was a badly calibrated battery. I calibrated my battery and it doesn't happen that much. Oh, and I've learned to not really use my phone when it's charging. Lol.
yea i bought a new battery yesterday. let it die then charged it. drained it and had probs. i wiped the stats and its off charging now sitting at about 92 percent. see how it goes
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yea i bought a new battery yesterday. let it die then charged it. drained it and had probs. i wiped the stats and its off charging now sitting at about 92 percent. see how it goes
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I've gone through it with the stock battery and my 3000mAz
Are you overclocked at all? Maybe set a charging profile with setcpu to lower clock and/or undervolt if you have a compatible kernel? Not sure, just throwing out ideas... Good luck, hope you get it figured out.
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issue has been solved. thanks everyone
How did you solve it
it could be an app using the cpu at all times
turned the phone off and let it charge all night and that was about 3 days ago and its back to normal now. it was deff a bettery issue as i have 3 batterys and 2 extended ones and my other batteries would charge just fine. but all good to go now. thanks.
Maybe is fault snowfall live wallpaper after installation all seems ok but when i restart my phone i notice battery was 50% and now is drop quick to 12% why? There pic what wrong :S?
Is first time happened me i hope is not broken battery lol.. im using mod cyanogen 7 anyway...
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My phone did this 2 days ago after I wiped and flashed to the newest unnamed ROM. I was around 57% before, after the reboot and going into the phone i was at 12%. let it drain to 3% and charged it over night. It's been fine ever since then.
But i still dont understand why drop so fast? Do you think is normal?
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The fuel gauge sometimes glitches... Did the raw voltage reading suddenly drop?
First was 50% for example and press OFF power and re-active phone and i see already 12%.
I dunno where can be wrong...anyway i hope wont happened next time. Today is first day i saw this strange problem.
Could be a problem when i restart phone sometime..
If problem still continue then im gonna think to buy a new battery standard i guess isnt? Any suggestion?
Battery is fine, it happens to many people. I would guess it has to do with booting the phone, as it uses a bit of battery power to reboot, and the raw voltage of the battery dropped alot, which caused the fuel gauge to drop down, but as the battery voltage slowly went up, the % stayed the same.
I have had my White AT&T Note for about a week. It is running Saurom RCV with the HoloNote kernel OCed to 1782mHz. I am having a really weird battery issue where it will drain to about 5% in a couple of hours regardless of what I am doing to it, then that 5% will last the rest of the day but the phone, thinking the battery is about to die, wont let me do anything (ie. listen to music or take a picture). Then, yesterday it started not charging all the way, it will stop at about 94% and then the notification that its fully charged will come up. No matter what I do it will not go past 94%. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
have you try to recalibrate your battery stats through CWM?
try that first........charge your battery to full......clear stats....drain all the battery...then recharge to full......that should help you with ur problem
First take the battery out and make sure you don't see anything on the contacts (phone or battery). Then leave the phone on until it dies on its own - easiest if you use something that will keep the screen on. Then charge overnight, unplug, replug and let it charge again until it stops. Turn it on, go through your day and report back.
I have tired both of your suggestions. I left it streaming a movie from Netflix and it took two movies at full brightness (or as full as it would let me) to kill off the last 5%. I apologize as I should have specified that I am posting on here having already tried conventional calibration techniques. Also, the stopping at 94% only started AFTER I used CWM to reset the battery stats.
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have you try to recalibrate your battery stats through CWM?
try that first........charge your battery to full......clear stats....drain all the battery...then recharge to full......that should help you with ur problem
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Does not do anything.
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I've never used CWM. Have you tried using it again?
I have noticed another "quirk", it seems that when my phone is sleeping for a long period of time, more than an hour, it will usually display more percentage than when I set it down. For instance I decided not to charge it last night as I was hoping it would die in the night however when I got up this morning it read 51% whereas it was at 26% when I left it. I am starting to think that there is something wrong with the hardware. Opinions?
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I didn't nitice this till last Tuesday. I forgot to charge my note the night before, and when I woke up I had 19% left. Around 10am I received a notification that my battery is critically low. I wasn't going home till 12, and I was texting heavily for 2 hours through whatsapp on 4g network, and nothing, the phone didn't turn off. I got home and plugged it in while it was still on. The only thing the phone did was turn down the brightness completely, im not sure if that 's the reason for the extra 2 hours, but that seems too much. Before i plugged in the phone it had 23 hours on battery with 4 hours 44 mins screen on time.
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Has anybody experienced any of these issues on a stock note? Also, I tend to agree, if Samsung had really figured out a way to make the end of the battery last that long we probably wouldn't be having this issue.
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I exchanged my Note for a replacement at the store and that has made a world of difference. It would seem that my suspensions about my hardware were correct. If you are having the same issues I recommend a replacement.
Thanks!
Hey guys,
I have had my Galaxy S2 for over a year now. I have not always had great battery life but I blame that on my providers ****ty 3G connection.
My longest battery life I had on Hydra h2o ICS rom and that was about 2 days with 2.5h screen time. Those were the good old days.
Now I'm on Vanilla RB with the DorimanX kernel and am getting a little concerned if my battery could be failing me.
I have tried for some time now to get stable, good battery life on the JB ROMs and it doesn't seem to be working. This is my case:
I charge my phone at night and use it over the day. The past weeks my phone has really been heating up and the battery is draining to near-zero levels within 2 hours of screentime. For instance I was playing a game the other day for about an hour on and off and lost 70% of my battery. The thing is that when the battery drains this quickly it always seems to slowly increase as the day goes by and if this happens, the phone can hang for an hour or two on the last 2%.
This I find really strange and have tried numerous times recalibrating the battery and doing cycles and everything I have thought of. I don't have any strange wakelocks that can explain this drainage.
For instance my phone completely died on me this morning after rebooting it at 50% and it booted up with 1% left. I then took the battery out and waited a couple of minutes. In the process I checked the battery out and it smelled strange. I also thought i noticed a slight bulge on one of the flat sides of it. When I popped it back in and booted my phone it was at 13% and slowly increased to 22% before starting to discharge again.
What I'm wondering is if my battery is broken and I should buy a new one of eBay?
edit: Right now I was charging it and rebooted. It went from 22% to 63%. Isn't this just a bit strange?
If you detect a slight bugle one side of the battery.
It means it is time to change the battery before it burst.
The battery is not hold a proper charge or discharge it properly, itr could be one of the filaments maybe damaged in the bulging area.
Okay, is there any aftermarket battery that is better than the stock Samsung one?
I also have the same problem after flashing on stock ROM. Solved with app "battery repair". Honestly it was not original (replacement) battery, but it still works well.
Do you Have a link?
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I presume you've done a battery calibration in between roms
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I presume you've done a battery calibration in between roms
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Yes, multiple calibration attempts.
But it's the bulge on the battery that has me concerned. It´s even ath the point where my back cover can't hold back anymore and sometimes comes loose where the battery is bulging.
One thing I'm noticing is that in AnTuTu Tester it shows the battery at higher voltages than the 3.7V on the back of the battery. So far I've noticed this go as high as 4.2V.
Is this something that is not ok? If not, could it be my phone or my battery's fault.
edit: 3.2V now during testing...
edit2: went all the way down to 2.7V during the testing (about an hour passed) and I experienced heavy screen flickering at around 22% left of battery and then the phone just shut down. Battery temp was at 39° right before shutdown.
Just recieved a new 1650 mAh battery today in the mail. Gonna give it a few cycles and post the results here.
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Do you Have a link?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.ynfo.batteryrepair&hl=en
It's works for me, but not a panacea for all problems.
Hiya, that problem persists for few months. Before that everything was working fine and my battery could last for even 2 days! And soon, something happened... after that "something" my battery started to last for around 1 day :/
But here's another very annoying and strange thing. I usually turn my phone off. And, next day, when I turn my phone on, it has eated at least 20% of battery -_- So if I had 80% last night, I have 60% in morning. I had 4.1.2, now 4.2.2 android. I have wiped cache/data, resetted dalvik. Nothing changed, that problem still persists. Even if I bought new, additional battery :/
Install betterbatterystats, search on xda for it. It will monitor your wakelocks, read the OP of the thread on how to use it. Then, read in the betterbatterystats thread for solutions to your worst wakelocks.
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Idk if it would help me... it still happens, when I have nothing installed on my phone. And, when I fully used my battery to 0% and charged it without turning phone on, it seems that 70% is "FULL battery" for the phone -_-
Tried a new battery? Borrow one from a friends s2 and see if the same thing happens. Could be the battery on the way out.
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It was happening to my old, original battery, so I bought new one - still eats 20%.
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It was happening to my old, original battery, so I bought new one - still eats 20%.
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But does it still only charge to 70%?
I am not sure with my 2nd battery, but gonna try to use it to 0% and charge. That original battery is surely ruined a bit.
Strangely, my phone sees 70% as full on my second battery as well :/
(and I was charging it while phone was off)
Hmm. I would guess hardware. But I know nothing about hardware sorry... @keithross39 any ideas on this one?
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mban18 said:
Strangely, my phone sees 70% as full on my second battery as well :/
(and I was charging it while phone was off)
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If your phone shows weird percentages, you might try to wipe the battery stats with cwm recovery (in the advanced section)..
Have you tried airplane mode at night? My device looses 4% then..
Good luck!
PS: My battery never lasts longer than one day. High usage and display brightness drain my battery mostly. I don't remember when it survived two days..
Try calibrating it, it sounds like a fuel gauge (plus a twist).
It could be your charger as well.
I don't think this is a hardware issue. Keith might tho.
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Airplane doesn't help much, my phone dies after 1 day even when I use it only to write few SMSes only :/ And I heard that wiping battery stats is a myth and doesn't help much. But, I had not that problem for some time, then it happened again and I don't know why.
How should I calibrate it, then?
Let it discharge till it goes off.
Charge it (while off) full.
Take your battery out for 90 sec.
Put it back.
Power on.
You' ve got nothing to lose.
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