Unpredictable battery life - HTC EVO 3D

I got this phone used so I'm not sure if there's something wrong with it or not. My phones battery is completely unpredictable, first off, it won't charge to 100%, the highest it goes is 95%. Next, it discharges extremely quickly. The charged % on the lock screen and the % in the notification bar are close to each other, but rarely ever the same (this includes the % displayed in my recovery too). Today my phone was at 19% when it died, so i plugged it up and when it came back on i had 9%, i rebooted once more. This time i had 57%! I mean no matter what i do its never consistent. Can someone recommend a rom+kernel combo to fix or test this? I've tried wiping the battery stats and it doesn't help.
Thanks.
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Xperia Player said:
I got this phone used so I'm not sure if there's something wrong with it or not. My phones battery is completely unpredictable, first off, it won't charge to 100%, the highest it goes is 95%. Next, it discharges extremely quickly. The charged % on the lock screen and the % in the notification bar are close to each other, but rarely ever the same (this includes the % displayed in my recovery too). Today my phone was at 19% when it died, so i plugged it up and when it came back on i had 9%, i rebooted once more. This time i had 57%! I mean no matter what i do its never consistent. Can someone recommend a rom+kernel combo to fix or test this? I've tried wiping the battery stats and it doesn't help.
Thanks.
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That could happen if your battery is aged or it has overheated at some point so one of it's cells doesn't do it's job as it should.
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donkeykong1 said:
That could happen if your battery is aged or it has overheated at some point so one of it's cells doesn't do it's job as it should.
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Any rom recommendations?
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Xperia Player said:
Any rom recommendations?
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Well, I always wanted to have 100% functionality and only sense 3.6 offer that. So, all recomendations are just opinions and personal likings. I suggest you try few ROMs and see which one suits your needs best
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donkeykong1 said:
Well, I always wanted to have 100% functionality and only sense 3.6 offer that. So, all recomendations are just opinions and personal likings. I suggest you try few ROMs and see which one suits your needs best
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What did YOU get the best battery life on?
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I'm on GSM so I can't really recomend anything for you. I can say that CoolICS is a great ROM with CDMA support and pretty good battery life
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donkeykong1 said:
I'm on GSM so I can't really recomend anything for you. I can say that CoolICS is a great ROM with CDMA support and pretty good battery life
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Not really fond of ICS or Sense but ill give it a try
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Phone not reaching 100% while charging

Ok its me aging hopefully this hasn't been posted either cuz I haven't came across it....but anyway today I decided to calibrate my battery let it die out and charge while the phone is off...and this was around 5pm....I fell asleep and it is now midnight and its still charging and I know stock batteries don't need a lot of time to charge unlike extended batteries.....has anyone else come across this or does this phone need 7hrs plus of charging??
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computerkid23 said:
Ok its me aging hopefully this hasn't been posted either cuz I haven't came across it....but anyway today I decided to calibrate my battery let it die out and charge while the phone is off...and this was around 5pm....I fell asleep and it is now midnight and its still charging and I know stock batteries don't need a lot of time to charge unlike extended batteries.....has anyone else come across this or does this phone need 7hrs plus of charging??
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There is no need to calibrate the battery. When the phone reaches 99% charge capacity, it will take a while for it to achieve 100%. Once it achieves 100%, it will let the battery drop back down to 95% then it will begin charging back to 100%. It is a repeated process. It will keep doing this until the phone is removed from the charger.
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DDiaz007 said:
There is no need to calibrate the battery. When the phone reaches 99% charge capacity, it will take a while for it to achieve 100%. Once it achieves 100%, it will let the battery drop back down to 95% then it will begin charging back to 100%. It is a repeated process. It will keep doing this until the phone is removed from the charger.
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Yea I understand that as far ad the phone being on and charging right?? But my phone was off and after 7hrs my charging like was still red I just turned it on and it was at 90 and just like that it went to 70
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computerkid23 said:
Yea I understand that as far ad the phone being on and charging right?? But my phone was off and after 7hrs my charging like was still red I just turned it on and it was at 90 and just like that it went to 70
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That is interesting.. Are you using the stock battery/charger? Are you connected through an outlet or usb port?
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That is interesting.. Are you using the stock battery/charger? Are you connected through an outlet or usb port?
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Yes stock battery and its through an outlet I never do usb cuz i don't believe it charges fully (IMO)
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Yes stock battery and its through an outlet I never do usb cuz i don't believe it charges fully (IMO)
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Once you disconnect, your battery drops from 90 to 70 in a matter of minutes?
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If that is the case, I would say bad battery. BUT I do remember reading that there were some Evo 3D's that suffered from the same problem, and they were also getting extremely hot. If that is the case, I suggest exchanging.
Was your phone normal before?
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Happened to me before when my phone died..... This battery takes forever to charge.
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Once you disconnect, your battery drops from 90 to 70 in a matter of minutes?
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Yes it did there was a lil notch gone in the status bar next thing I know the battery is at the 70% Mark
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EricSS619 said:
Happened to me before when my phone died..... This battery takes forever to charge.
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I have yet to experience this substantial drop. Hmm...
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DDiaz007 said:
If that is the case, I would say bad battery. BUT I do remember reading that there were some Evo 3D's that suffered from the same problem, and they were also getting extremely hot. If that is the case, I suggest exchanging.
Was your phone normal before?
Ok and yes I got the phone 2days ago and besides the 3 digit weather issue my phone was normal to my knowledge
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computerkid23 said:
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So at one point and time, it was normal? Have you installed any apps since then?
Edit: Have you done any of the OTA's?
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EricSS619 said:
Happened to me before when my phone died..... This battery takes forever to charge.
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Ok well ill do another test later on cuz if the phone takes this long to charge I would think we should have awesome battery life say 10 hours plus I could be wrong tho
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So at one point and time, it was normal? Have you installed any apps since then?
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It was normal as no issues that I've noticed but this was the first time I charged the phone being off also and I doubt an app wouldn't cause this specially when the phone is off so therefore nothing running
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computerkid23 said:
Ok well ill do another test later on cuz if the phone takes this long to charge I would think we should have awesome battery life say 10 hours plus I could be wrong tho
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Let the phone die down to 15%, then charge it. If it drops significantly again, then we may have a problem. It could be a bad battery or an app you must have downloaded.
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computerkid23 said:
It was normal as no issues that I've noticed but this was the first time I charged the phone being off also and I doubt an app wouldn't cause this specially when the phone is off so therefore nothing running
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A smart phone is like a pocket sized computer. There can be malicious apps that can harm the phone. But if that isn't the case, I suggest hard resetting. If that still doesn't work, replace.
Edit: Try my other solutions first.
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A smart phone is like a pocket sized computer. There can be malicious apps that can harm the phone. But if that isn't the case, I suggest hard resetting. If that still doesn't work, replace.
Edit: Try my other solutions first.
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Gotcha thanks....ill try all the above
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I personally had strange battery problems the first week I had the phone, and after that my battery life became quite good (I did the battery calibration technique from the og evo and it helped a lot also).
So if you're saying it's strange after a couple days I'd say give it a chance to go through a couple more charge cycles. I'd bet the issues will sort themselves out.
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Yes stock battery and its through an outlet I never do usb cuz i don't believe it charges fully (IMO)
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What makes you think this?
nhutpham said:
I personally had strange battery problems the first week I had the phone, and after that my battery life became quite good (I did the battery calibration technique from the og evo and it helped a lot also).
So if you're saying it's strange after a couple days I'd say give it a chance to go through a couple more charge cycles. I'd bet the issues will sort themselves out.
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I'll give it to the end of the week and see what happens ......thanks everyone
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Is it just me or the photon???

Gonna keep it short, got an extended battery, charges too 100%, calibrated it, did two charge cycles, battery still dies like a ton of bricks and does the dreaded sit at 1% for hours, now I've charged it via charging cable and external battery dock and still get the same results, any suggestions or solutions??
Stock 2.3.4 rooted
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25494725
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mquinn24 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25494725
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thanks but no thanks, don't have bootstrap anymore to flash, and that obviously doesn't work as stated by many of the posters, instead of listing links of something with no results just give a straight answer, thank you
Wow! I think it's you.
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A2CKilla said:
thanks but no thanks, don't have bootstrap anymore to flash, and that obviously doesn't work as stated by many of the posters, instead of listing links of something with no results just give a straight answer, thank you
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If you want help don't be a ****. You will get better results.
bricky23 said:
If you want help don't be a ****. You will get better results.
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i wasn't trying to be, sorry if it came off that way, but people are so quick to just post a link here it's ridiculous, i've done my own research on the topic and came to that posting many a time, so i figured i'd ask for a second opinion
My seidio battery did the same thing, and using the framework apk from one of the threads on here didn't work either.
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A2CKilla said:
Gonna keep it short, got an extended battery, charges too 100%, calibrated it, did two charge cycles, battery still dies like a ton of bricks and does the dreaded sit at 1% for hours, now I've charged it via charging cable and external battery dock and still get the same results, any suggestions or solutions??
Stock 2.3.4 rooted
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It is the photon. I had the same thing all most 2 days of battery the first time. Then only 8 hr after charging for 24 hrs.
Then Finally nothing.
Oh Well.
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This is what has worked for me every time no matter if stock rooted or any other custom rom..... and I do this switching back and fourth between extended and stock battery..... you must be rooted.... atleast i was.
get the battery monitor widget from the market. In the setting you can change the ma rating of the battery you are using. Once you have done that click on stats in the app and it'll clear battery stats. Reboot phone go into app and clear stats again. That should be it. When I had clokworkmod installed on the reboot id clear battery stats in there as well.
This has worked for me time and time again.
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DualSportDad said:
This is what has worked for me every time no matter if stock rooted or any other custom rom..... and I do this switching back and fourth between extended and stock battery..... you must be rooted.... atleast i was.
get the battery monitor widget from the market. In the setting you can change the ma rating of the battery you are using. Once you have done that click on stats in the app and it'll clear battery stats. Reboot phone go into app and clear stats again. That should be it. When I had clokworkmod installed on the reboot id clear battery stats in there as well.
This has worked for me time and time again.
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Where is this state setting you speak of????!?!?!?
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A2CKilla said:
Where is this state setting you speak of????!?!?!?
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I believe it's in the app he mentions. The "wipe battery stats" option is also in the advanced menu of CWM (clockwork mod). If you do not have a custom recovery installed just disregard that part as bootstrap does not have it.
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ICS ROM with best battery life

I was just wondering based on everyone's experience (especially those who have tried many different ROMs). Can you also mention how many ROMs you've tried?
I used to use stock ICS with all T-Mo bloatware and battery life is just horrible. Now, that I've rooted and use Fast Amaze ROM without all the bloatware and I can see a much better battery life. So, I am just wondering what would be the ROM you'd recommend that has the best battery life...
Thank you for the helps
Trial and error.
No two experiences are the same, for everyone uses their phones differently
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I'm with glacier. But probably the best Rom on standby is energy. I left it on for around 4 hours during school still at 100% believe it or not
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glacierguy said:
Trial and error.
No two experiences are the same, for everyone uses their phones differently
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eggydrums said:
I'm with glacier. But probably the best Rom on standby is energy. I left it on for around 4 hours during school still at 100% believe it or not
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Ditto to Glacier guy, with eggydrums' great battery life on Energy, I get the worst battery life with that rom and great battery life on ARHD.
jcorv58 said:
Ditto to Glacier guy, with eggydrums' great battery life on Energy, I get the worst battery life with that rom and great battery life on ARHD.
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I got same results with energy gb Rom. It's great when the phone is sleep... But who let's their phone sleep? I let mine take cat naps
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Lol. Yeah i know that it might be different for everyone, but just want to see if there's a ROM that people generally like.
And i forgot to mention... I want an icy sandwich roms. Lol.
As for standby, i got my phone to stay on 100% for the first 3 hrs. But, yeah, who let their phone on standby
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shuvarts said:
Lol. Yeah i know that it might be different for everyone, but just want to see if there's a ROM that people generally like.
And i forgot to mention... I want an icy sandwich roms. Lol.
As for standby, i got my phone to stay on 100% for the first 3 hrs. But, yeah, who let their phone on standby
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Try CapRomCE.... It's icy with aosp system apps
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Iced Bullet!
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glacierguy said:
Try CapRomCE.... It's icy with aosp system apps
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Now, this is kind of reply is the reason i made the thread. Some ROM i was thinking was like arhd, energy, speed rom, or nonsense revolutionized... Hahaha. Gotta take a look at that capromce
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shuvarts said:
Now, this is kind of reply is the reason i made the thread. Some ROM i was thinking was like arhd, energy, speed rom, or nonsense revolutionized... Hahaha. Gotta take a look at that capromce
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Iced bullet is great to. 16 hours average usage and I still have 20% left
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Flipnfr3ak said:
Iced bullet is great to. 16 hours average usage and I still have 20% left
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Whoa that sounds great.
By the way, did you browse or play games on those usage time? Or does that usage only counts for some texts, calls, and browsing?
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I'm at 18 hours 20% left with Iced Bullet..
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Screenshots of battery stats?
I can get 24 hours on stock ics if I don't touch it
Edit: For the n00bs who have no idea what Iced Bullet is, Here it is
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Moderate use...some 4g, lots of browser usage, sms, calls, music and even a live wallpaper.)
Edit: My attachment not showing?
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I will report back tomorrow, just got Speed ROM 3.5 flowing. Have had good results with other Speed ROM's.
shuvarts said:
Now, this is kind of reply is the reason i made the thread. Some ROM i was thinking was like arhd, energy, speed rom, or nonsense revolutionized... Hahaha. Gotta take a look at that capromce
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I've tried every rom and always com back to capcomce super fast awesome battery I've had 100% battery after 2-3 hours of light use couple calls couple google searches. Great rom.
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I say make your own "rom". Learn what it is that devs do, use trial and error to figure out what tweaks make a real difference(read a roms tweaks, do research into how to make those changes).. remove bloat, modify the build.prop.. the best rom is the one you build yourself. And you learn a lot more too.
But that is just my opinion.
shuvarts said:
Whoa that sounds great.
By the way, did you browse or play games on those usage time? Or does that usage only counts for some texts, calls, and browsing?
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I browse for some iPhone stuff because I repair them and Androids too. Jailbreaks, hacks. So I do some browsing. I play games also. Draw something, words with friends, and the gba and psx emulators.
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I am a pretty "light" user I guess and I am on ICS energy. Here are my stat screen shots.
I was thinking of trying icedbullet but I heard there are a few kinks to be ironed out
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Question about battery

So I've been hacking my atrix for a year and it had this issue with the battery where when you had a custom rom it would charge past like 95 or 97% does the s2 have the same issue?
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kufusoto said:
So I've been hacking my atrix for a year and it had this issue with the battery where when you had a custom rom it would charge past like 95 or 97% does the s2 have the same issue?
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I came to the S2 from the Captivate. The captivate would charge to 100 then when unplugged sometimes would immediatell drop 2-3 percent.
I have never had this problem, or one like yours at all on the S2. Mine charges to 100 then stays there for quite a while after unplugged.
kufusoto said:
So I've been hacking my atrix for a year and it had this issue with the battery where when you had a custom rom it would charge past like 95 or 97% does the s2 have the same issue?
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The only battery related issue we have is that on a reboot sometimes the device appears to lose most of its battery (unfixable bug with our fuel gauge). After that it will either not drain at all for a long time or it might go up a couple of digits.
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Thanks for the feed back and also I have no idea what cause the atrix problem
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Nick281051 said:
The only battery related issue we have is that on a reboot sometimes the device appears to lose most of its battery (unfixable bug with our fuel gauge). After that it will either not drain at all for a long time or it might go up a couple of digits.
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Isn't the "fix" for this to remove your battery for a couple minutes and after putting it back in, charge it to 100%? I've had the issue where the battery percentage would drop significantly after a reboot and after using this method, it seems to work fine until I flash another rom.
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Isn't the "fix" for this to remove your battery for a couple minutes and after putting it back in, charge it to 100%? I've had the issue where the battery percentage would drop significantly after a reboot and after using this method, it seems to work fine until I flash another rom.
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The only "fix" is do have it plugged in while you reboot it.
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kufusoto said:
So I've been hacking my atrix for a year and it had this issue with the battery where when you had a custom rom it would charge past like 95 or 97% does the s2 have the same issue?
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I had the Atrix and from my understanding over there that's not an atrix issue. It's built into the code of the phone to prevent "over charging" Stock roms would show 100% because they didn't want average consumers freaking out. But they removed it in custom ROMs so battery % would show correctly
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joshyy_rey said:
I had the Atrix and from my understanding over there that's not an atrix issue. It's built into the code of the phone to prevent "over charging" Stock roms would show 100% because they didn't want average consumers freaking out. But they removed it in custom ROMs so battery % would show correctly
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Idk theres so much confusion with the atrix
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What's a good Rom with very good battery life and good performance?

So far I found aokp unofficial but the only issue I had was I couldn't use tether and I'm currently on android revolution HD and its the exact opposite of what I want any suggestions?
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Ima try fourth bar: infusion to see if it fits my needs I couldn't get it to work last night ima try again
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avenged_sevenfold27 said:
So far I found aokp unofficial but the only issue I had was I couldn't use tether and I'm currently on android revolution HD and its the exact opposite of what I want any suggestions?
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seem to be your phone is trolling you
Lol I know but I like a good challenge I usually spend hrs on an issue to see if i can fix it haha
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OK guess I'm at a dead end lol I keep having to charge my phone like every hour to 2 hours Idk why my phone is barely a month old and I'm not really heavy using it hell it even drains when my screen is off just like it would with the screen on and it takes forever for it to charge I prolly had it on the charger all day today for the most part idk what I am doing wrong and my WiFi is always off every ROM I use is the same I even went to my 4ext and wiped the battery stats that didn't do anything and my GPS and sync and bluetooth is off since I never use them so why is my battery draining so fast?
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avenged_sevenfold27 said:
OK guess I'm at a dead end lol I keep having to charge my phone like every hour to 2 hours Idk why my phone is barely a month old and I'm not really heavy using it hell it even drains when my screen is off just like it would with the screen on and it takes forever for it to charge I prolly had it on the charger all day today for the most part idk what I am doing wrong and my WiFi is always off every ROM I use is the same I even went to my 4ext and wiped the battery stats that didn't do anything and my GPS and sync and bluetooth is off since I never use them so why is my battery draining so fast?
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You need a real charger. Not a micro usb. Either that or you need a new battery. Roms are not the cause of bad battery.
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Get a new battery first let it calibrate itself after a few recharge decharge cycles and then report back. The amaze has some bad batteries that HTC will replace and or T-Mobile also.
I'm using the wallcharger it came with
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