Anyone else seeing issues with really inaccurate battery readings? I'll be at 99% charged for 15+ hours sometimes, and then things will drop rapidly or even just die at 20%. I've also noticed when charging that it'll get to 99% within an hour or so and then spend 30-45 mins at 99%.
On top of this, my phone battery just died at around 55%. Are others just draining their battery all the way to try to calibrate?
wsoldier said:
Anyone else seeing issues with really inaccurate battery readings? I'll be at 99% charged for 15+ hours sometimes, and then things will drop rapidly or even just die at 20%. I've also noticed when charging that it'll get to 99% within an hour or so and then spend 30-45 mins at 99%.
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On top of this, my phone battery just died at around 55%. Are others just draining their battery all the way to try to calibrate?
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I always calibrated battery by draining it all the way and charging it all the way atleast first 3 times.
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What rom and Kernel are you on. Also what mods if any such as battery indicators and such have you put on your phone?
@dragonstalker: I'm running stock with the latest OTA update. I'm using Batterybot to display the indicator in the notification bar, but the reading is the same from the stock battery display.
@amit_sen: I've had the phone for a few months.
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I always calibrated battery by draining it all the way and charging it all the way atleast first 3 times.
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Doesnt do anything for Li batteries its fud.
For the last 2 days, my battery has drained overnight and is dead by the morning. The first time, I didn't think of it. This time, I looked at the history and it drains within maybe 6 hours without the screen on, being awake, or anything. I turn off all of my radios besides cellular at night. So I have no clue what could be causing the battery drain. Any ideas? Here is a pic of the history
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For the last 2 days, my battery has drained overnight and is dead by the morning. The first time, I didn't think of it. This time, I looked at the history and it drains within maybe 6 hours without the screen on, being awake, or anything. I turn off all of my radios besides cellular at night. So I have no clue what could be causing the battery drain. Any ideas? Here is a pic of the history
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Install gsam or bbs and see what they say us causing it.
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Is anyone using battery calibration apps? I know some of the custom ROMs like Hatka Supreme list that they include some sort of function in those regards.
I thought even on stock there was a way to erase battery stats so that you could recalibrate. No? Could of sworn I had seen the option when I first got the phone. Could be wrong too...
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Install gsam or bbs and see what they say us causing it.
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I downloaded Gsam and it says that my radio is taking up most of my battery. Any idea why this is happening because its never done this before? I used to get at least 2 days of battery usage. I charged it until it was full yesterday, let it sit overnight, and this morning it was @ 20%. I'm on newts M7 and z's B5.4. I've been on this combination for the majority of the time I've had my phone an no problems until now. And I don't think its the kernel because the same thing happens when I had it on 5.1. I noticed I was on global mode and I changed it to LTE/CDMA. Who the hell knows, that might be what's causing it. We'll see. Any help is appreciated.
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Alright, I've read countless "photon battery issue" threads and none really have a good answer but this is just ridiculous:
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I went to bed with the thing charged to 100%, wake up 8hrs later, not having used it once and its at 50%... okay, whatever, I guess it was about 8 hours...
So I charge it to 80% then go work-out for about maybe 2 hours and when I'm done the SOB is at 40%- I DIDN'T TOUCH IT THE WHOLE TIME! I DON'T THINK IT EVEN CHARGES THAT FAST! I don't care if it was searching for signal the whole time, which it shouldn't have, WTF?!
Other anecdotal stories: I'm fanatical about battery life and always charge it full before going out for the night or something and I'm usually lucky to make it to bar close, a total time span of MAYBE 5 hours. How is this even possible?! The damn thing is supposed to have a 10 hour talk time?! Even if I was on the phone the whole time (which not even close, just txting and using it when you're awkwardly alone while your friend goes to the bathroom)- WTF!?
I'm extremely vigilant about charging and monitoring battery life and despite my best efforts I get burned constantly. I even have this thing on airplane mode at work (in a basement) cause it will be dead by the end of my shift.
Any one use a rom that gives a noticeable increase in battery life? Doesn't seem like many of them are mature enough. Juice defender doesn't seem to help much... do I have any decent options? I may start carrying around a second battery but seriously, that's a bit silly.
/venting.
you have a bad battery, just call up Motorola and see if your still under warranty, if so, have them send you one, that's what i did and i've noticed a substantial increase in battery life
Hey man, did you calibrate your battery when flashing roms? Battery will die faster when dont calibrate. Currently which rom are you on. also check some programs that might run in the background. Right now, im getting about 17 hours, but i am over clocked and under volting this bad boy. I posted my battery life prior to running jokers ROM. Check it out.
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I think I have some issues with my battery as well. It discharges fast! I usually have it full all the time but the times where I have left it discharge cause I'm lazy I wonder how everyone post pics with 13+ hrs when I feel like my won't get even 10. Btw, my battery has been in water for a brief moment idk if that affects it somehow?
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In my experience, bad battery life is usually related to some apps or settings wrecking havoc in the background. Unless you happen to have a phone with LTE and a smaller battery of course.
I always get an average of 30 to 40 hours on one charge with moderate use on my Photon, stock rooted...
For me, live wallpapers demolished my battery life. Also, I completely formatted sd internal before flashing joker skinny.
No rom here, just rooted- lime green theme. I didnt calibrate but for a theme i shouldn't need to? Ill look into getting a battery from moto, no reason i shouldn't be covered.... Aside from rooting that is. Also wouldnt phantom app drain show in the pics posted?
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Get betterbatterystats and check for wakelocks etc, something is stuck full throttle in the background
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My battery life is also really bad.. but since I flashed cm7 its been better which makes me not wanna throw this phone against the wall lol..but seriously ..right now I'm at 42 percent after 11 hours with texting, a few calls, Facebook, playing some games so I'm really happy with cm7.give it a try
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4.136V as well
What do I do, shut my phone off for a few mins? How do I prevent this and why does it get so high?
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During CPU use and/or charging, heat from the CPU also heats up the battery, however at those temps the battery is still safe to use, its not until 120F+ that I would be worried.
Also...a fully charged 3.7V cell phone batter should read 4.2V, so you are still with in the safe limits for that too.
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4.136V as well
What do I do, shut my phone off for a few mins? How do I prevent this and why does it get so high?
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105.8 is not high at all - not even remotely.
4.136v is not high either. Voltage goes up to 4.2 volts near the end of a charge cycle.
105.8ºF is 41ºC. Lithium batteries become damaged at temperatures in the 70ºC range. 158ºF. As stated, charging heats the battery some, and discharging heats the battery some. Provided the battery voltage is less than 4.2V and greater than about 3.1V, this kind of temperature is not a problem.
I noticed mine doing something similar a couple times over the past few days. I would use it for a few minutes to play a game or watch a video, then close that app. The phone would remain extremely hot to the touch and eat through my battery like crazy. After about 15 minutes of it still hot the first time, I went in and killed the entire process for the app I had been using. Then waited for another 30-45 minutes for it to cool off, but it stayed hot as hell. I had to power off the phone completely and it cooled off very quickly.
The second time it happened, I don't remember doing or playing anything graphic/cpu intensive. Just went and plugged in the phone to charge while I slept. I woke up and it was doing the same thing where it was insanely hot to the touch. I left it unplugged for about 30 minutes and it stayed hot. I went in an powered off again and it was cool in under a minute.
So far this has only happened twice in the entire month I have had/used the phone. I remember someone else reporting similar issues before in a different thread as well, but couldn't find it again. I didn't know I could pull the battery's temp so I don't have that info from when it happened. Where did you find that temp? I'll post it the next time it happens. Anyone have any ideas what could cause this other than charging heating up the battery?
*#0228# in your dialer.
Is your phone stock?
Thanks for the code. I'm running UnNamed 1.2.0 at the moment. I might try upgrading to the latest 1.3.1 of it to see if that helps.
I had 44% left on my battery, ran the battery stats code you provided, hit back button, and now the battery shows 16% left. Not sure how that happened in the 10 seconds it took to read the temp.
I'll post the temp when it starts acting screwy again though.
What is your voltage and can you post a screenshot of your battery stats graph? Also if you use setCPU, what profiles do you use.
Current voltage is 3950mV and temp is 36*C. This is under normal operation while charging. I don't use setCPU or do any OC/UV. I am trying to upload a SS of the graph through the app on my phone, but it just keeps saying "Receiving from server" every time I hit submit and then staying at the reply screen. I'll try again once I get home from work.
SS is below.
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Huh... wow that is odd... When was the last time you had a full charge?
A few days ago probably. It is fully charged now though.
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A few days ago probably. It is fully charged now though.
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Do a full charge, at 4.2v of charge pull the battery and let the phone sit there for a few minutes, then plug the phone back in, use BetterBatteryStats to register partial wakelocks and fix things as necessary.
Hi, I'm getting the same issue with my battery! It just gets drained and my phone gets too hot! Im lookin at the temperature and it says 39C°… please advice
gacuna said:
Hi, I'm getting the same issue with my battery! It just gets drained and my phone gets too hot! Im lookin at the temperature and it says 39C°… please advice
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Read this thread plus the other ones on similar topics.
39 celcius is not too hot. Feel free to freak out at 50° and up.
Though DANG your battery went down fast. What were you doing?
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Thanks for the code. I'm running UnNamed 1.2.0 at the moment. I might try upgrading to the latest 1.3.1 of it to see if that helps.
I had 44% left on my battery, ran the battery stats code you provided, hit back button, and now the battery shows 16% left. Not sure how that happened in the 10 seconds it took to read the temp.
I'll post the temp when it starts acting screwy again though.
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I just had mine drop from 38% to 16% after this as well. This is really screwy. I don't know what's going on but my battery %'s are all over the place when I reboot.
[EDIT] I forgot to come back and mention that after the battery dropped to 16%, it slowly climbed up to around 22% before coming back down again. No reboots or anything, just after waking it up a few times from sleep.
Is anyone else finding it extremely difficult to get through the day without struggling to keep your SIII alive? I thought the battery life was supposed to be superior to its predecessors? I'm a first time Android user but I did not think I would have to lower my brightness all the way and constantly monitor my devices battery life.
do you have some dumbass apps draining your battery?
i found my culprit and it's Friendcaster without even turn the notification on
get Badass battery monitor to find it or just use the one in setting
I'm finding the battery life is great, and lasts a whole day with no problems
It really depends on what do on your phone.
Try posting a screenshot of your battery stats. Android has an inbuilt monitor with each app and its usage being displayed. Easy method to spot a drain.
I just downloaded that in addition to my other app but there doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary that seems to be killing my battery. Most of it is coming from my screen but I keep at it 25% brightness the whole time. Super odd
I usually get around 16 hours of standby and at least 4 hours or more of screen time.
You should try Watchdog Task Manager. It will be able to tell you if an app is running and using more processes than it should. Also I've never used badass battery stats, but better battery stats will tell you if anything is holding a wakelock. It is free for XDA members so you don't have to buy it on the market. Just search for it
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I'm finding the battery life is great, and lasts a whole day with no problems
It really depends on what do on your phone.
Try posting a screenshot of your battery stats. Android has an inbuilt monitor with each app and its usage being displayed. Easy method to spot a drain.
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Where exactly would I find this inbuilt monitor?
Settings/Battery Is what I was refering to. The other two recommended apps are probably more detailed.
Is this it?
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On saturday I drove for 4 hours streaming music via bluetooth to my car. Used navigation for about 40 minutes with the screen on the whole time. Took a few calls, sent a few sms's. Read a few forums using data. Got home that night with about 40% left. That'll do me.
Maybe I'm just freaking out about the whole battery situation? I just expected it to be a lot longer and a lot better. I constantly worry if I'll be able to make past 10PM when I start my day at 7AM.
On wifi with little to no voice signal that cuts out frequently, I might get seven hours of screen on time today D:
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Yeah i found it average and could just get through a day. Ended up installing lightweight rom and lasts a day no problem.
Get Better Battery Stats and have a look at what the Wakelocks are like http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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Maybe I'm just freaking out about the whole battery situation? I just expected it to be a lot longer and a lot better. I constantly worry if I'll be able to make past 10PM when I start my day at 7AM.
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You should be fine, i start my day at 5am and still have 40% at 8pm.
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I'm getting huge drain from Cell Standby.
It'll lose 30% overnight. I keep checking for a software update. It's got to be the modem.
I'm holding off on rooting and custom ROMS until I know for sure this is fixable in firmware.
My phone's on LE6 and is from Thailand.
I see that you have poor signal reception
maybe that's why
last time I went underground, just 5 mins of standby it took away 10% of my battery
when it searches for signal it drains a lot
you could also try to disable auto search for network
go to setting>more settings > network operators and select it manually
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On wifi with little to no voice signal that cuts out frequently, I might get seven hours of screen on time today D:
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An update, I did not want to drain fully to 0 but I got six hours and forty minutes of screen time yesterday and I think I could have hit seven if I drained fully.
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i get 48% on cell standby... my phone lasts around 4-5 hours... anyone got any ideas what i can do to increase my battery further??
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Get Better Battery Stats and have a look at what the Wakelocks are like http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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Super idea ) i've done that today. All seemed good. 2,5 % awake is fine
Since two day suddenly the battery drain become too high at standby the BF lost 20% in 1 hours I did factory rest but it didn’t help.
what to do to stop the battery drain?
the bf is on stock and rooted
chemcup said:
Since two day suddenly the battery drain become too high at standby the BF lost 20% in 1 hours I did factory rest but it didn’t help.
what to do to stop the battery drain?
the bf is on stock and rooted
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Download GSam battery monitor from the Play Store to determine what is causing the battery drain.
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Not to hijack this thread.... but.
I ran antut benchmark 3 times and this is my result.
The previous dip was about an hour ago was me surfing the web only for 10 min and my phone hit 109
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The battery drain during usage is within the normal, but in standby it is too high, which I do not understand!
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The battery drain during usage is within the normal, but in standby it is too high, which I do not understand!
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Using the battery app see what app or service is keeping your phone awake. That would be my guess as to what the problem is. I would also suggest flashing cpalmers kernel as well, which has been really good for me in limiting awake time.
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Install BatteryGuru, give it a couple days to learn how you use your phone, and watch how it saves your battery once the learning period is done. I swear by this app, it brought me from almost a day to about a day and a half as far as battery life is concerned.
I installed the Gsam battery, it shows that "phone radio" was sucking down a vast majority of the battery.
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I installed the Gsam battery, it shows that "phone radio" was sucking down a vast majority of the battery.
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Then you must be in an area where service isn't good and your phone is searching for service which kills the battery quickly. To conserve battery turn on air plan mode and then turn service on when you get into a zone with better coverage. This will help your battery a lot.
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Since two day suddenly the battery drain become too high at standby the BF lost 20% in 1 hours I did factory rest but it didn’t help.
what to do to stop the battery drain?
the bf is on stock and rooted
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My opinion..don't install any more apps than what you only use. You install more apps it will obviously suck more battery. What you do. Root/unlocked the bootloader and install a sense 5 4.1.2 base Rom. I came from stock and since I've installed a sense 5 stock Rom I've notice a big battery saver comparing from the original sense 4+ stock.hopefully that helps.
Thanks all
Strangely none of this helped the battery drain is too high in standby, after resting (no apps installed only stoke apps) and even flashing sense 5 rom still 15% per hour and even in Air plan mode . The strange thing during the use of the phone the drain is normal.
Yesterday I received my new LG G2 model D802 and the battery didn't last more than 6 hours:
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It's normal? No root and stock ROM.
Any solution?
No not normal, but give it a week and see how it does then
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Yeah, give it a few cycle of charges & see.
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Install GSAM to narrow down what is causing the drain. What do you have synced?
That's not normal. After i bought mine it gone over 2hrs of screen time and 10hrs stand by. So clearly something is wrong here....
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Yesterday I received my new LG G2 model D802 and the battery didn't last more than 6 hours:
It's normal? No root and stock ROM.
Any solution?
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your image link is broken, and i can almost say its normal as my phone didnt last more than 8 ours on the first charge with about 4 hours screen on time. but just yesterday after about 11 days! i got about 30 hours of uptime on a single charge with 3.5 hours of screen on time on the battery, it takes some time to settle down the device ! and also note that i charged my phone from 15% to 80% (as some said not to fully charge or discharge the battery ) and just dayb4 i charged it to 100 % (waited for like 15 more minutes after thefull charge notification was shown) and then took it off charge and got this battery backup! so its better to keep it charging in such a way hope this is helpful to you
Thanks for the replies! Today I charged the phone 2 times. First charge, after 2 hours of screen, my phone was at 50%, then I have charged it again to 100% and now, this is the result:
It's better than yesterday but not enough in my opinion. With only 5 hours of usage, battery dropped down less of the 50%.
Are you on wifi all day? If so, what type of wireless network are you connected to? At home my battery lasts all day and is still at 75% at the end of the day, however at work with a different wireless network I'm at 50% by lunch. Looking at the battery stats at work my phone is almost always awake and is due to wlan_awake.
Get a replacement that is really bad
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Are you on wifi all day? If so, what type of wireless network are you connected to? At home my battery lasts all day and is still at 75% at the end of the day, however at work with a different wireless network I'm at 50% by lunch. Looking at the battery stats at work my phone is almost always awake and is due to wlan_awake.
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Hope this screenshots helps:
My router is an ovislink evo w300ar 11n. What I noticed is that when the phone is fully charged takes a lot to down from 100% to 99%, but after 99%, downs 1% every ~6-8 minutes.
Something is definitely not right with your phone. Unless you are a heavy phone user, the battery should not be draining this fast.
Try uninstalling any recent apps & see. Also disable sync & see if it improves.
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Hope this screenshots helps:
My router is an ovislink evo w300ar 11n. What I noticed is that when the phone is fully charged takes a lot to down from 100% to 99%, but after 99%, downs 1% every ~6-8 minutes.
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What about kernel wake lock and alarms?
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What about kernel wake lock and alarms?
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Install greenify and hibernate Dropbox (can be done without root). I also have the power manager service which is really annoying and I haven't figured it out yet
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You can go into task manager press the menu button and go to stop services. From here stop everything you don't regularly use especially Facebook I believe it has over 30 services attached to it. This just tells the phone not to update what you haven't opened.
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Try disabling fast dormancy, that helped my battery life a lot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2493017
Disable sync for Dropbox and google
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I have made a factory reset and have installed only whatsapp, better battery stats, feedly and tapatalk in order to see what will happen today.
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I discovered the safe mode:
So I have tried it during one hour and this is the result:
It looks like you have a bad battery I would take the phone back and get a replacement.
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