Well, have been so many months reading this forum, I had never need to post anything cuz everything was on there. Now I´m facin a problem, my Galaxy Note 1 GT-N7000 from 2 weeks battery level drops fastly, like 1% per minute, when was at +-5% the screen starts flickering. Then, this problem continued until it just didnt charge. I bought a new battery and works for 2 days, then the same problem. Did a factory reset, reinstall ROM, calibrate battery, clean caché, data... EVERYTHING for discard software issue, im using Android 4.1.2 Stock ROM with Root acces.
Firts I thought it was the battery, after getting the new one (seems to be original) and the problem continued I think about the USB mini port. Then I switched my uncles GT-N7000 battery, and his battery works fine on my phone, the only detail is that it didnt reach 100% and it was connected for hours, it just reach 92% and when reached 61% it stops for some 30 minutes. Meanwhile my Note's battery on his phone reach 100% but the charge just lasts for 90 minutes.
My questions are:
Can my phone be damaging all the batteries that get connected with it?
Can it be the USB mini port with a short circuit or may it be my motherboard?
PS: Te performance of the device is OK, smooth, fast, opens everything (camera, flash, sounds great), its just the battery level and uncharging. Its out of warranty Would thank any help or suggestions.
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Alright, before you tell me to remove batterystats.bin and move along read this carefully.
I've had my HTC Legend for about 8(?) months now. Around the same time, my mum also bought one. I rooted mine, flashed CM 7.0.0, up to the newest nightly now. She left it as she got it, only upgraded to Froyo when the update came out. Everything is working great, except for the battery statistics.
Around 4 months ago my mother first complained about her battery not charging to 100%. It got worse over the weeks, and the battery level also started dropping faster and faster. It has gotten to the point where, when she gets it off the charger in the morning, it's around 52% (Even though it's been charging for forever, and should theoretically easily be on 100%). After about 5(!) minutes of using the phone, it will have dropped to a 2% battery. Battery life, however, is hardly suffering. She can just walk around with a 2% battery for the rest of the day. Obviously the batterystats are totally ****ed up. After 2-3 months my phone started doing the same, except it does it less severe. I can only charge to 50~60% as well too.
Around this point, I started looking around, and found about how android saves it's battery levels. I rooted and flashed my phone, and using fake flash, I booted into Clockwork recovery, mounted /System (S-on phone, can't edit system when phone is on, still no s-off for hboot 1.01..) and removed the batterystats.bin. I did in a couple of ways now, including the build-in option and using Android Commander. My phone, however, still won't charge past certain numbers.
Now my questions to everyone here is: Did anyone else have problems like these? Any solutions you'd like to suggest? Are batterystats/total voltage also saved somewhere else?
I'd like to point out that the battery itself is not damaged or anything. When my mum's phone had these problems, and mine didn't yet, we tested her battery in my phone, and it would charge to 100% just fine, and the levels weren't messed up.
Her problems started around the time she flashed Froyo from the official update. I can see how flashing a new rom messes up the batterystats.bin, but apparently that's not the only file being wrong?
Any suggestions are VERY welcome.
Tl;dr: Phone battery won't charge past 50% or so, battery level drops to 1% in 5 minutes.
EDIT 1: My mum send her Legend to HTC to get it ''fixed'' THREE weeks ago. She got it back today, them saying it was fixed. After a good 10 hours in the charger it still won't go to 100%, and after 30 minutes the battery levels dropped from 70% to 1%. I think it's quite shocking how HTC can say something is fixed without even trying to charge it to 100%.
you can try this, can't hurt
Turn your phone on and charge it for 8 hours or more
Unplug the charger
Turn your phone off and charge it for one hour
Unplug the charger
Turn on the phone and wait 2 minutes
Turn your phone off and charge it for one hour
Unplug, turn it on and use as normal.
Hitmax117 said:
you can try this, can't hurt
Turn your phone on and charge it for 8 hours or more
Unplug the charger
Turn your phone off and charge it for one hour
Unplug the charger
Turn on the phone and wait 2 minutes
Turn your phone off and charge it for one hour
Unplug, turn it on and use as normal.
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Thanks for the reply,
sad to say I've already followed steps like these atleast three times. Including charging without entering pin, when off, when on, etc etc. Still, thanks for the suggestion.
no such problem yet ... but i'd be interested to know if you were able to resolve it... it cant be a coincidence both you and your mom 's battery levels acting up.
QkSi1ver said:
no such problem yet ... but i'd be interested to know if you were able to resolve it... it cant be a coincidence both you and your mom 's battery levels acting up.
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Could be so, but I don't think we're the only people in the whole world to have this problem. I'll keep this thread updated with any information I might stumble across and any other solutions tried. If anyone could tell me where the maximum values for the battery are stored in android it'd be great, seeing how deleting the batterstats.bin file didn't help, there must be another file in android tracking battery..
Hi,
so you're not alone. My Legend is showing the exact same symptoms.
I bought my Legend used via ebay and the seller told that the battery won't fully charge. No problem i thought, just buy a new battery.
Even with the new battery it won't charge more than 60% and it decreases to 10% in 5 minutes.
Just had a test. Even with 60% power at the beginning and 10% after 5 minutes it still was working for 80 hours!
unfortunately i don't know when the probs started to occur. My legend is also with the official Froyo flashed.
regards
Mario
DRAGandDROP said:
Hi,
so you're not alone. My Legend is showing the exact same symptoms.
I bought my Legend used via ebay and the seller told that the battery won't fully charge. No problem i thought, just buy a new battery.
Even with the new battery it won't charge more than 60% and it decreases to 10% in 5 minutes.
Just had a test. Even with 60% power at the beginning and 10% after 5 minutes it still was working for 80 hours!
unfortunately i don't know when the probs started to occur. My legend is also with the official Froyo flashed.
regards
Mario
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Everyone seems to have this problem since Froyo. HTC fixes it by replacing the motherboard, which basically means they replace 90% of the phone... So basically, there is no real fix around. :/
seem like hardware fault..
kmc30 said:
seem like hardware fault..
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Could be so, but it seems strange as the problem starts occuring after flashing to froyo. [Even though going back to eclair doesn't seem to fix it..]
Hi,
I have a very rare problem with my Xperia X10i. Namely quickly consumes battery. Calculated the average of the 5 minutes for 1% of the battery charge. Given the battery is discharged within 3-5 hours.
Xperia (unlocked bootloader, root and xRecovery). I have tried all ways, but none of them helped. I've done a full format of the new phone by installing the Android 2.3.3. Restored to factory settings, format the memory card, Avast antivirus scanning the phone.
I took it to the living room and said that it might have some short-circuit or short circuit in the phone. They said that in the middle of the phone is fine.
The problem appeared on the original batteries from Sony Ericsson BST-41. I thought maybe the fault lies in the battery so I bought a battery Andida 1700mHa but the effect is the same. The battery is exhausted within 3-5 hours. I thought the wine so it can rom. I installed rom from Wolfbreaka "uIBIDoom" which is 90MB, to no avail.
It seems to me that I've tried almost everything, but it is still some hope. Please help me.:crying:
hi. I dont think that 3 batteries can be broken. make sure you have disabled GPS, it drains battery quicky. wifi drains it faster too but not so much. try to recalibrate your battery.
Its hard to tell if it is normal ( 5 hours battery life) because we dont know how are you using your phone. Watching youtube with wifi online can drain battery realy quick. GPS too, also playing games.
Really I dont know whats the problem, but try to recalibrate your battery and turn off unnecesary services like GPS etc.
The case of the battery is such that initially work properly. She held as well, up to two days. Phone calmly withstood the night, which is not an option now. On the battery worked well, it happened overnight. Today went well, and the next day something happened to her. All necessary application off (gps, wifi, youtube)
Im using Cyanogen Mod 10.1 build Jan 23 on my phone. Till recently (2 days specifically) my battery has started acting up. When i connect it to the wall charger it charges super slow. Also if I'm browsing or using the phone for an email or anything during charge the charge on the battery still drops. I also charged the phone using a blackberry charger same issue happens. The battery takes 6-8 hours to charge completely.
This also happened to me the first time i charged my phone when i got it. But it fixed itself after that.
It behaves the same when i switch off the phone and charge it.
Plz Help.
Samsung Galaxy S3 [I9300]
CyanogenMod 10.1
Sounds like a bad battery imo. You didn't turn down the charging rate in a custom kernel by anychance?
CM10 nightlies are still under DEV so you can expect a battery drain until stable versions comes out !!
Im using Stock Kernel on the device. No changes made to it or battery charge rate. Should I buy a new battery? Or can it be a hardware issue?
Like being said before CM10.1 is still in dev.
Try flashing back to stock and test.
Welcome to the baffled S3 charging issues thread....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727540
I'm pretty certain it's not a ROM or a kernel issue. The same is happening to me.
My suspicions lie in the actual charging port and/or the battery. I don't have a spare battery to test. But this happens no matter what rom I use. It tends to be fine after a fresh ROM install or a fresh wipe. But it goes back to 'acting up' after some time.
For example, I left it at around 4% last night only to wake up to it at around 33%. Where before, it would fully charge after around ~4 hours or even less.
Another symptom is that when on wifi/data (whilst plugged in) the phone still drains and even faster so when it is actually downloading something.. This isn't your typical battery drain.
NOT a rom/kernel issue as some would like to suggest (for a "quick thanks" maybe...? ) as this isn't your usual battery drain.
Hello there people!
Basically this is my first post on here because it's actually the first time that I couldn't find a thread covering the same/similar problem that I'm experiencing...
Here's my issue:
I've got two batteries for my SGS 2, the standard 1650mAh battery and an extended 2000mAh battery (Official Samsung Extended Battery Kit), which I bought about half a year ago, when the stock one started giving me battery life of only few hours.
Yesterday, when my battery died I plugged it into my PC and booted the phone back up immediately without letting it charge even a little bit because I was in a hurry... Since I started using it right away the battery drained faster than it could charge and died within seconds with the screen flickering.
I knew I wasn't really being nice to the battery so I finally let it turned off to charge...
This was when I noticed that it wouldn't charge at all (no charging indicator), though it did seconds before when it was on.
So I tested different USB cables and sockets --> Not charging.
I replaced the battery with the old one that I haven't used in months --> Charging!
These results prove that the charger itself and the USB port of the phone do work and indicate that the issue is with the extended battery.
Now my question is: Can a battery just break so suddenly and if yes, is it fixable and how? I knew a battery can get weaker with age and become useless this way and that the most common reason for a battery to not charge at all are broken components (usb cable or port) but I never knew batteries could suddenly stop working.
Keep in mind the 'broken' battery is relatively new (5 months) in comparison to the old one which was in duty for 2+ years.
Another thought: Maybe it's a problem with the phone, 'not recognizing' the battery after it had its sudden death?
I hope my description was somewhat clear and thank you guys in advance for your help and suggestions!
P.S. Don't know if it's of any help here but I'm running a cm 10.2 nightly (Android 4.3.1)
Of course batteries can die like that after a few mths. Manufacturing process isn't always perfect, some of questionable quality will always get through QC. Fix a battery - You're kidding, right ?
I doubt you can get a replacement, most guarantees on phone batteries are 90 days in my experience, but you can certainly go back to the seller & try.
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Now my question is: Can a battery just break so suddenly and if yes, is it fixable and how?
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May be charging board is the issue?
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hi guys,
this is my first posting too.
I am using Samsung Galaxy SII I9100G version
I have use odin to flash the stock rom JB 4.1.2
I use the blazing kernel safe mode
past few months the phone is working fine, it will go overheated (when charging sometimes not charging) if i use other version of blazing kernel.
this two days, something strange happen to my phone. it keep on overheating both charging and non charging. i have no idea what goes wrong as i did not flash anything nor change the rom. to charge my phone it takes longer as its burning!
without charging it also burning.
i do not know what to do now, any senior member can lend a hand?
Okay I just had this issue on my N10, but I solved it by switching the charger out (yes sounds stupid, but it helped)
I did have this problem on other tablets however and I am happy to share the solutions I have found over the years.
Solution 1: Battery stats.
Plug it in and boot into twrp. If it just keeps showing a faint white battery icon, use solution 2. Now max out the screen brightness, and let it die. Now plug it in and charge it to 100%, boot into the OS and calibrate the battery by wiping the battery stats or grabbing a battery calibration app off the play store.
Solution 2: Different charger/Wall Brick
This was my N10s issue, I tried solution 1 but that didn't help, so I tried switching out the wall brick. I traded my 5 Watt amazon adapter for a generic usb wall brick. My wall brick heats up, yours might not. You know that the charger is a problem when you plug it in and the battery icon is dim, it should be full brightness and doing a little charging animation. I noticed that this generic brick would do the animation so I tried just leaving it plugged into that, and my tablet is now at 7% and going up slowly.
Solution 3: Reboot over and over again
Exactly the title. On my old kindle, the battery would occasionally come up with a real number rather than 0%.
Solution 4: Rom cycling
Flashing a different rom. I had to do this on my old tablet a few times, but it would fix it sometimes. Honestly any rom will do, just keep cycling.
Solution 5: Replace the battery
Lastly you could just replace the battery. a battery is about 40$ on amazon, so this is a bit pricey. This is a last resort and will most likely fix your problem, and if it doesn't, you'll at least have a nice full battery for when you do. I've never done this, but I've read about people having success when they do.
Tried most of the items you pointed out and unfortunately changing the battery was my only success.
However the new battery is also starting to give away. Using it as a photo frame so battery is not a issue, the yellowing of the screen however is..
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'ole N10 user here, ordered a $23 replacement battery just now then hoping it resolves basically a dead battery. I own lots of tablets but a "why not" feeling if $23 makes it as-new.
MeowDude said:
Okay I just had this issue on my N10, but I solved it by switching the charger out (yes sounds stupid, but it helped)
I did have this problem on other tablets however and I am happy to share the solutions I have found over the years.
Solution 1: Battery stats.
Plug it in and boot into twrp. If it just keeps showing a faint white battery icon, use solution 2. Now max out the screen brightness, and let it die. Now plug it in and charge it to 100%, boot into the OS and calibrate the battery by wiping the battery stats or grabbing a battery calibration app off the play store.
Solution 2: Different charger/Wall Brick
This was my N10s issue, I tried solution 1 but that didn't help, so I tried switching out the wall brick. I traded my 5 Watt amazon adapter for a generic usb wall brick. My wall brick heats up, yours might not. You know that the charger is a problem when you plug it in and the battery icon is dim, it should be full brightness and doing a little charging animation. I noticed that this generic brick would do the animation so I tried just leaving it plugged into that, and my tablet is now at 7% and going up slowly.
Solution 3: Reboot over and over again
Exactly the title. On my old kindle, the battery would occasionally come up with a real number rather than 0%.
Solution 4: Rom cycling
Flashing a different rom. I had to do this on my old tablet a few times, but it would fix it sometimes. Honestly any rom will do, just keep cycling.
Solution 5: Replace the battery
Lastly you could just replace the battery. a battery is about 40$ on amazon, so this is a bit pricey. This is a last resort and will most likely fix your problem, and if it doesn't, you'll at least have a nice full battery for when you do. I've never done this, but I've read about people having success when they do.
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I can confirm that there is something strange going on on the nexus 10 hardware. When I received my second hand nexus 10 ,it shoots down at 40% . Now after 3 months, I don't know why but trying to charge in twrp, let it go drain all the battery in twrp, and charging when it's turned off completely recovered the charging hardware ,because I know the battery can't recover from a bad state . Now it turns off at 0% , and it's not only a calibration effect, it lasts longer than before. I charged mine with an aukey charger and some good quality cables . I never used the original wall charger , because the aukey has 5 connectors and I use it to charge all my devices
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I can confirm that there is something strange going on on the nexus 10 hardware. When I received my second hand nexus 10 ,it shoots down at 40% . Now after 3 months, I don't know why but trying to charge in twrp, let it go drain all the battery in twrp, and charging when it's turned off completely recovered the charging hardware ,because I know the battery can't recover from a bad state . Now it turns off at 0% , and it's not only a calibration effect, it lasts longer than before. I charged mine with an aukey charger and some good quality cables . I never used the original wall charger , because the aukey has 5 connectors and I use it to charge all my devices
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I fixed it, turns out it was the charger I was using. Guess I was lucky, my Nexus 10 is a champ now.
I fitted my Nexus 10 battery. Bought the battery [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yru4k62qdEU"]here[/URL] and used this video guide. It was very easy took me about 30m watching and re-watching the key steps, the ribbons being the one to pay particular attention. Wow, though 17 screws......
I have Android N via Pure Nexus unofficial build and its performing well. Its relatively slow cpu by today's standards does make it stutter more if I make it do a few things at once, relative to my Pixel C, but I love the forward speakers and good now for a spare tablet. I just did similar thing for my Nexus 7 2013.
The Pogo pins is finnicky takes a few connection attempts til it works. I can see why 2 models later (after Nexus 10 was 9 then Pixel C) they moved to USB-C 3A 5V 15W its far quicker.
I've replaced the battery, changed a few roms, use different chargers all the time (whichever is Handy), and tried resetting the battery stats. No joy so far. Always shuts down at 30%.
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I've replaced the battery, changed a few roms, use different chargers all the time (whichever is Handy), and tried resetting the battery stats. No joy so far. Always shuts down at 30%.
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I had the same issue with a new battery. I charged it up to 100% then went into twrp (I'm running linage) and wiped the cache. Touch wood it seems fixed.
I'm having a good experience once I opened up my N10 and replaced the battery. I'm getting very good battery life, on full brightness about 8-9 hours.
I like the screen form factor for watching videos like MP4 or Netflix. It is so good I turned off my Pixel C at 60% charge to make its $600 expense I spent 18 months ago last as long as possible for when I need its performance which is when traveling.
The recharge performance is the biggest weakness, I have to plug in the Pogo cable and leave it alone. I have a bit of light bleed on bottom right corner. Audio via built in speaker is a bit feeble. Running Pure Nexus which eventually will get Oreo.
I bought my Nexus 10 when released. Battery still lasts till the end and charges fine to 100%.
But this screen is so bright, I always kept it at lowest brightness. No screen issues and no battery issues and use it everyday since new.
I bought my Nexus 10 the week it was released. The battery eventually stopped holding a charge, and I replaced it. Now my battery indicator is stuck at 100%, which is as bad as 0%.
I'm about to try a different ROM. Hopefully that will help.
permutations said:
I bought my Nexus 10 the week it was released. The battery eventually stopped holding a charge, and I replaced it. Now my battery indicator is stuck at 100%, which is as bad as 0%.
I'm about to try a different ROM. Hopefully that will help.
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Fully charge it, wipe battery stats, reboot
This is a common problem when swapping batteries on any device. It took me a while to respond because MeowDude is my old account.
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Fully charge it, wipe battery stats, reboot
This is a common problem when swapping batteries on any device. It took me a while to respond because MeowDude is my old account.
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I tried letting the battery drain until it shut down, then recharging to 100%. I think it's better - not sure.
How do I wipe the battery stats?
permutations said:
I tried letting the battery drain until it shut down, then recharging to 100%. I think it's better - not sure.
How do I wipe the battery stats?
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you'll have to root the tablet and then download a battery stats wiping app off google play
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you'll have to root the tablet and then download a battery stats wiping app off google play
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It's rooted. What app?
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It's rooted. What app?
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just search battery stats wipe on google play
Last year my Nexus 10 was due for a new battery. I swapped it for a new genuine one, but since that day the Nexus will shut down at around 80% charge. It's not that this percentage is incorrect (it happens at around two hours of light use), but it somehow sees 80% as 'empty' and shuts down. I've tried all solutions mentioned in this thread but to no avail. Any ideas?
BhNeP said:
Last year my Nexus 10 was due for a new battery. I swapped it for a new genuine one, but since that day the Nexus will shut down at around 80% charge. It's not that this percentage is incorrect (it happens at around two hours of light use), but it somehow sees 80% as 'empty' and shuts down. I've tried all solutions mentioned in this thread but to no avail. Any ideas?
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Since I replaced my battery, my Nexus 10 stays charged for days. If you've replaced the ROM (so you know it's not a software problem), then it must be a hardware problem. Hopefully you just got a bad battery, and it's not the Nexus 10 itself.