My samsung galaxy s2 has some inconvenience issues to be solved. Since last month ago it begin warning high voltage when charging the turn-on phone. Then it would stop the charging the battery . It can be charged only if I turned off the phone and turned it on when it says 100%.
Not sure whether was the battery go wrong and its battery life already very crappy, and the things even worse when the phone was upgraded( it drained a lot as constantly searching for 4G). In fact a few weeks before, I asked help from friends borrowed his MPJ spare battery for this battery issue. His replacement battery was better but why Sprint and Samsung know this is the major complaint but still have failed to correct ever…
I also have been to store but nothing is solved unless to pay to have it back to repair. then I have to begin purchased extended batteries(one even have much higher capacity at amazing 5000mAh) and chargers followed with the friend who helped me so that i keep several charged and ready to change out as needed. but i still wonder anyone know why it would warning the high voltage and it did not appear again after changing batteries?
Could be the battery, but you fail to mention which version of the S2 you have (assume you have the i777) AND what you upgraded the firmware to. If you did a stock OTA update and you're not rooted, there's really nothing anyone can help you with other than suggest a new battery.
If you're rooted, I would flash a different rom first before investing in a replacement battery.
If you decide to get a new battery, I recently bought this one for $5 and can vouch for it's compatibility (minus NFC, which has never really worked properly for our phone anyway).
You will find after a fresh flash most roms will seem to consume more battery than it used to. Give it a few charging cycles before you decide that your battery is bad,or the rom, or the kernel is bad. It may need to settle in a bit.
Sweet deal on the battery Steve:thumbup:
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I've had my Flyer a few months now and in the last few days the battery seems to be draining very quickly. I charged it full again last night and this morning it was at 88%.
I've turned everything off so just the bare bones of the device are alive and i'm using Juice Defender, and still no joy. It's only started doing this in the last few days so i presume the battery is on the way out very quickly.
I've let it drain to 10% and charged it, and it's made no difference.
I'm not going to mess about with settings and more waiting to see what it does etc...., I really just want to get a new battery and be done with.
Where can i buy a new battery? I've had a look on fleabay and no joy.
Any suggestions where to get one, part no. etc...?
Many thanks in advance
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I've had my Flyer a few months now and in the last few days the battery seems to be draining very quickly. I charged it full again last night and this morning it was at 88%.
I've turned everything off so just the bare bones of the device are alive and i'm using Juice Defender, and still no joy. It's only started doing this in the last few days so i presume the battery is on the way out very quickly.
I've let it drain to 10% and charged it, and it's made no difference.
I'm not going to mess about with settings and more waiting to see what it does etc...., I really just want to get a new battery and be done with.
Where can i buy a new battery? I've had a look on fleabay and no joy.
Any suggestions where to get one, part no. etc...?
Many thanks in advance
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happened with me also....10% battery drained overnight...
what app is using most of ur battery?
sometimes push service in some free market apps drains a lot of battery and it keeps running even when app is closed... check running processes... well i uninstalled that app with push service and all became normal
Thanks for that but i've had a look through and it would seem that there isn't anything happening over night that i'm not expecting or that is being very hard on the battery.
I'm pretty confident the battery is the culprit here. Sourcing a new battery however is proving to be a problem. Somebody somewhere must be selling them.
I've just been on to HTC in the UK, they have a service centre not very far away from me and they won't sell me a battery or even give me a part no. for the battery.
Come on, somebody must know where to get one.
I think i might have found somewhere in China...
Battery - BG41200
3.7v - 4000mAh
If the prices were cheap enough how many of you would be interested in buying a battery for your Flyer.
Perhaps do a group buy?
i thought flyers battery is not user replaceable?
It's very replaceable and easy to do.
Here......
http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/cracking-open-the-htc-flyer/6256123
I'm going to have to look at getting a new battery sooner or later. It's getting to the point hat the battery is always running low by the time I get home in the evening or even running out. With pretty much the same use it used to be good for a day and a half easily. Flyer was purchase may or june 2011 so it really needs to last another 16 months or so.
Well......I ask again. If anyone knows of where to buy an internal Flyer battery please post a linky.
I posted this thread earlier today
"I just wanted to know what people are getting out of their batteries. I unplug mine around 7:30 am when i leave for work. When I get to work i turn on my wifi (rooted thunderbolt) and leave that on all day. I have the setting to turn wifi off (flyer) when screen is off. When I get home around 5:30 i switch to my home network and by 8-10 my battery is pretty much gone. Is this normal battery life or are there any tricks I'm not aware of that will help with battery. My wife has an Ipad 1 and she seems to get days of use out of it before she needs to charge it.
Also, I don't watch movies or video at work... most of my use is surfing, twitter and email."
I'm trying to figure out if what is normal battery life and If mine came with a bad battery. If so Yes I would be interested in getting a new one.
The Ipad battery has much longer life and is a much bigger capacity battery. The new HTC Jetstream also has a much bigger capacity battery as well. I think HTC have learned lessons on how much battery power these flyers use, but unfortunately have used Flyer owners as guinea pigs, rather like the first Apple iPhone but that had terrible battery issues as well although they've gotten better over time.
When my Flyer was brand new the battery lasted for ages and i couldn't understand what people were on about the battery not lasting for very long. So up until a few weeks ago my battery was doing fine and then almost within a day or two the battery started to run down quickly and has been doing so ever since. I've since loaded/unloaded new ROMS and done all the usual procedures for deleting the battery stats etc..., and still no joy.
I think the problem is with the battery not being man enough for the job at 4000mAh, and the drain is such that the battery is being worked hard since September last year (in my case) to a point where it is now progressively failing. I'm not so sure either that it's all that good in terms of quality.
Most of that time it has been charging from one source or another. If my Flyer isn't in the car or in the house it's not often being used battery only unlike most other people probably use the battery only a lot, so i can't understand why the battery is failing when it's not even that old.
This is a big issue with the Flyer and for what the device cost i would have expected a lot better. I think the Flyer in itself is a fantastic piece of kit that i will no doubt keep for a very long time as i did my XDA IIi but i never had problems buying another battery for my IIi. HTC will not sell me a battery, they insist i send the device to them and they will swap it but will cost about £50-£60 for the pleasure. I flatly refuse to pay that!!
What is required is a bigger capacity battery (6000-8000mAh) in the same packaging as the current battery however, i think for now i would happily settle for another of the same battery if i could just get hold of one.
So far it's proving an impossible task!!
Just to add: Once you've made sure there aren't apps being opened at startup that don't need to be opened until you're ready to use them, also make sure wifi/bluetooth, mobile data is all off when not required, and all the usual tweakes to make sure animations are off, screen is on the lowest brightness etc..., then there is not a lot more you can do. I don't know how much use something like Juice Defender will be as that only makes sure your data connections are off at night and other times you specify. I've tried it and it didn't help at all so i don't know what else to suggest apart from turning the radio part of the phone off completely at night if it isn't on charge.
If i leave my phone off charge all night, having fully charged first, i wake up in the morning and it's down to around 86-88% battery.
I know there are million battery threads and I have read through them all and still don't know what to do.
My Atrix is more than a year old - its out of warranty. I don't know when I got it but I have been using it for a while and love the phone.
Issue
Over the last month I have started noticing that battery would not charge to 100% indicator. Initially it would go to 95%, then 935 and yesterday it was 88%. I downloaded the battery app and it would show that the battery is actually fully charged 4205 mV.
I have used the following tempfix:
Delete data/system/batterystats.bin
delete cc_data, cc_data_old and powerup in data/battd
After doing above and rebooting it will show actual charge (100%) at 4205 mV. But in the next cycle same issue happens.
I am on NottachTrix 1.3.1 with N_01.77.37P radio and default US ATT kernel. I actually have great battery life. A single charge usually last 1.5 to 2 days on low use.
Questions What should I do?
Do the tempfix after every charge?
Go back to Stock AT&T from Motorola?
Sell the phone since it will only get worse from now on and there is no solution?
Is it likely that installing CM9 would have caused this? I installed it for couple of days (jokersax) and reverted soon. Did the installation delete/corrupt critical files?
My own opinion, if you can make it through a day with moderate usage, then is it really an issue?
If it's something that's really bugging you then you could probably get a cheap replacement battery off of eBay since you did most of the standard fixes to correct it already...
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My own opinion, if you can make it through a day with moderate usage, then is it really an issue?
If it's something that's really bugging you then you could probably get a cheap replacement battery off of eBay since you did most of the standard fixes to correct it already...
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I read all these thread and they mention that there might be a hardware flaw that starts roughly a year later (no warranty - good job moto ) that results in bricked Atrix. I am worried that the issues I am seeing are related to that. If that is not the case then I will keep Atrix around till SGS 4 is a announced and SGS 3 is a year old and I can buy it for 300
If your phone is fully charged (4205 mV), then it's fully charged. You've done the standard fixes to get the reported percentage back to reality, but there isn't really a permanent solution. It's not going to brick your phone, it's just an annoyance.
Mine caps at around 93% (with 4205 mV) and I get a day and a half with moderate usage. If you leave it alone over several cycles, like a week or so, does your max percentage quit changing drastically?
Hi everyone, I got a SGS3 for about 5 months, the week I got it I had to change the battery because it was'nt working properly, when I got this one whitch is 'original' made by samsung it says it's NFC support but NFC didn't work(Never root of flashed)!
Till now I haven't change it. Now after making a few time root, costum rom, stock, root, battery calibration(few times), costum rom, I noticed that the Battery is gooing FAT!! I had removed battery and let phone off.
What I am going to ask is: Is the problem that Battery was BAD or is it with root, flash, calibration, or anything else?
Now I am going to get a new battery
Nothing to do with flashing your phone mate.You just got a bad battery and a fat battery can also explode too so dont even think about keeping it as a backup.Ive heard some bad batteries even affect the performance of some phones so when you get the new go back into the phone and tick the NFC options and try to send a photo.Might work this time.
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Hi everyone, I got a SGS3 for about 5 months, the week I got it I had to change the battery because it was'nt working properly, when I got this one whitch is 'original' made by samsung it says it's NFC support but NFC didn't work(Never root of flashed)!
Till now I haven't change it. Now after making a few time root, costum rom, stock, root, battery calibration(few times), costum rom, I noticed that the Battery is gooing FAT!! I had removed battery and let phone off.
What I am going to ask is: Is the problem that Battery was BAD or is it with root, flash, calibration, or anything else?
Now I am going to get a new battery
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Duplicate one's never say they are duplicate. you have to buy them from samsung stores(if possible), because Samsung themselves don't sell duplicate.. Flashing, Rooting and calibrating, custom roms don't do anything with battery(except battery draining in some ROM's).. So buy original one..
Battery cell is under pressure due to charge/discharge gas build up, safety vent has either failed to operate or isn't fitted (fake battery). Dispose immediately for recycling and don't be tempted to charge it ever again.
A lithium fire in your home, or worse your pocket, will ruin your whole day.
My trusted i9305 has done me proud over the past couple of years but over the course of the past year I've noticed a drop off in the battery life. My post comes in 3 parts, but if you think it's better I could break it up and post separately?
#1. Poor battery life.
I'm running the German 4.3 Stock ROM (I9305XXUEMK1) with the factory bootloader and the phone's rooted. Because I flashed the 4.3 ROM I can no longer use the OTA update option and in general I've been happy with keeping things super stable.
I'm using Nobloat to get rid of the bloatware, Allinonetoolbox to keep the number of apps that start on boot to a minimum and Greenify to keep the number of apps ticking over in the background to a minimum.
I have the stock battery, 4 Anker replacements and a cheap Samsung copy and swap between the batteries, charging using an Anker external wall charger from this pack Anker Batteries/charger
I've done a factory reset but that made no noticeable difference. When I check my battery stats there are no rogue apps draining the battery, its the screen that is always the most power hungry. I've run Wakelock detector and there seems nothing untoward there either.
I guess I could look at flashing the ROM again, but if I were to do this, does anyone have a suggestion of an alternative factory ROM? I'm not too worried about upgrading to Kitkat as I read lots about issues with battery life and with otg and sd cards, but I guess by now the latter issues should be resolved.
#2. Check battery capacity
I've been wanting to check the actually capacity of my remaining S3 batteries but the only thing I can find that seems suitable is Nova Battery Tester, but that's no longer on the play store and the only links I can find come from websites that I don't like the look of - does anyone know where I could get the APK from or something similar that I could use. I know the batteries that I have will have a lower capacity now, but I'm wondering how low.
#3. Buying replacement batteries in the UK
I had 4 batteries die on me whilst traveling India for 5 months. They all had the tell-tale bulge so were disposed of. I don't know if it was an issue with the wall charger, the rather unstable power over there or the heat, or a combination of all 3! But now I'm down to just one Anker and one Samsung battery so if I'm to continue with my S3 I'd like to pick up another one or two replacements. I'd happily buy a genuine Samsung one if the price was right but I'm put off by all the Chinese copies out there. The only other option I've found are the Anker ones - I can't find Mugen batteries over here.
If I were to switch between the old batteries and a new one, would I benefit from from deleting the battery stats and sticking with the new one or will the phone be fine switching between them?
Okay, thanks for ploughing through that guys. Any help would be greatly received
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I'd happily buy a genuine Samsung one if the price was right but I'm put off by all the Chinese copies out there. The only other option I've found are the Anker ones
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You could try the ZeroLemon ones (2300mah but no NFC) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Warranty-Zerolemon-Battery-Samsung-Galaxy/dp/B00E0N4WZ2
I switched to these as the genuine Sammy ones were bulging and failing regular as clockwork. The one that I currently run has done around 18 months and still going well.
Affected Device
Manufacturer: Samsung
Make: Galaxy S5
Model: SM-G900T
State When Bought: Certified Refurbished + Carrier Unlocked
Store Bought From: Amazon.com
Hi.
So far, my Galaxy S5 I bought back in August has been running into issues lately. Here are the situations I've been through lately:
-The charging port on my S5 is broken. I went to my local repair shop and the guy there said that it's $129 USD to repair the charging port (that's over 1/2 the cost of the phone itself) because the people repairing my phone have to remove the glass to get access to the port itself. The guy told me to go buy an external battery charger and new batteries instead, recommending me an external battery charger and 2 batteries on eBAY. The batteries and charger were new and only $15.
-Now here's where the problems with the batteries start. After using my phone with the new battery for 15 minutes and draining from 60% to 39%, it shut off. I tried turning my phone on again, but it just wouldn't. So I charged it to 100% and put it into my phone, but when I turned my phone on, the battery starts at 81%. No big deal for me, so I start using my phone as normal.
-Now: drainage issues. My S5, no matter what ROM I flash on it, whether it be CM-based or TouchWiz-based, will drain from 81% to 0% in just ONE HOUR AND THIRTY MINUTES, and this was my defective battery before it was replaced with the ones I got from eBay. I STILL have the same problem to this day and I don't know what's going on.
-And finally, the overheating issues. When I start up and use my phone on any TouchWiz-based ROM, it will heat to somewhere about 100 Degrees Fahrenheit to 150 Degrees Fahrenheit based on what I feel on my hand. So far I've found NO WAY to fix this at all, so please help
I appreciate all the helpful comments and I hope to get my phone back in shape soon.
Since you've gone 3 days with no help, I'll try to give you what very limited help I can.
First, the overheating and short battery life go hand-in-hand. Assuming this isn't a straight up hardware issue, it would seem that the processor is running hard servicing some app. Have you added anything recently that might be running in the background? If you aren't sure what the possible cause may be, maybe using a power monitoring app like Better Battery Stats would be worth a try.
As for the early shutoff, there is such a thing as battery calibration. Don't know much about it myself, but there's information out there.
Also, I suppose you could just have a bad battery. New doesn't necessarily mean good. Ebay stuff is not always trustworthy.