I was thinking that the S5 was charging a lot slower than my S4. I was always amazed at how fast the S4 would charge with phone on like from 1-100% in about 1.5 hours. The S5 is taking about 3 hours from say 1-100%.
After checking with GSAM Battery Monitor Pro the S4 was pulling 1900mA of its included 2 amp charger. The S5 only draws 1200mA on the same charger. I also checked the S5 with its included 2 amp charger still just pulling at 1200mA.
I did this on two (2) S5's and two (2) S4's.
I guess some one with a volt meter setup could test this more scientifically but from a real world stand point I notice the difference. Not a hugh deal really as the S5 battery last a lot longer so I guess it balances out if your not charging as many times.
A benefit to this that I've noticed is the phone does not get no where near as hot as the S4 does during heavy use while charging.
Just wondering if kernel apps like Faux or others would be able to increase the draw with like fast charge for those times when running say GPS and music and need to charge?
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Battery went completely dead today all the way to shutdown. Plugged it in and restarted it @ 12:40pm. I didn't get back to it in an exact hour (see pic). It was charged to 74% in around 1hr 15min.
With that said. Plus another WIN for the S5 and Samsung. That quick charge technology that was rumored must be a reality if it's charging this fast with little more than a 1/3 less current draw than the S4 (1200mA vs 1900mA).
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Did you find a solution to how to charge the S5 with 1800ma while on?
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I am having trouble, the charging LED never turns green for me. It was plugged in overnight. I installed an app called "Battery Monitor Widget" and left it plugged in. The highest it reaches is 3801mAh out of 3840mAh. It was at this state for 2 hours, saying 99% charged. The tech specs say this is a 4000mAh phone, is that rounded from the 3840 the app tells me? or is something terribly wrong with my battery? Anyone else experiencing this?
also, if anyone can recommend a battery monitor app, I would appreciate it. I downloaded the first one I came across that gave actual numbers instead of a bar.
it finally made it to 3840mAh and turned green. It has been plugged in since my first post. Can anyone verify that their phones battery capacity is 3840mAh?
Yes, mine is the same.
I use juice defender ultimate, set cpu and juice plotter.
Works great for me.
I just installed the free JuiceDefender app and it appears to need root to work:
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Thank you both. Ever since I left it plugged in for basically two days, it has been charging and turning green in what I consider a reasonable amount of time. I still think I have an underlying problem and expect to have a shortened batter life, but I also think I will upgrade to the next 7" from HTC before it causes frustration.
frh1: your added picture made me even more excited to own the flyer.
I think you're good. These batteries have to go through some charge cycles before the calibrated correctly. Some batteries will never see 100% after a few uses. Both of my Sammy 10.1's would say they were at 100 then as soon as you unplugged them they were down to 98. I thought there was something wrong with my view because it was taking a while to charge. My first view charged very quickly. I guess I didn't notice on the first one because i was playing with it so much, but after a few full drains and then charges it started charging faster. That's one of the things I like about the view, it charges fast.
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I have the stock CM10 rom installed, and it usually does something like this that only lasts for a few days and goes back to normal. But this has lasted for almost a month now. As you can see in the pic, sometimes its says charging but doesn't "gain" energy, and when it does in drains extremely quickly. When it is asleep or turned off it still drains. I tried charging it with a different cord, then with my computer. Then I tried using a GS3 cord & adapter, it charged faster, but I couldn't tell how fast it drained since I wasn't using it.
Do I need to replace the battery? If I do, will it cost a lot, because if it does I'm just going to get a Note or DNA....
Try using a battery calibration app, people say to use it when you flash a new rom. Also, it might be an actual problem with the battery itself. Try getting a replacement battery if so. But then again, before you do that try going to stock and see if the problem is still present.
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once it charges I'm going to see if that will help. and my son deleted my stock rom (long story), so I'm stuck on jb/ics.
Also its recommended after you calibrate to drain the battery to 0% and then recharge to 100% afterwards. And as far as the stock rom goes, you can restore using Odin and download mode
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wow it worked, the battery lasted from 5:30 to 7:10, a new record since I ever brought the device
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wow it worked, the battery lasted from 5:30 to 7:10, a new record since I ever brought the device
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Hi,
I'm off to a festival soon and usually I have to bring 2 standard fully charged batteries and a 4300mAh anker battery to get through because all the ROMs I use seem to drain my battery, idle or not.
I have rooted my S3 since the beginning, going through a ridiculous amount of custom ROMs but now I'm starting going back to stock would be a better option. I've been using an iPhone 5 recently and was absolutely amazed when I fully charged it at 100% and then 2 hours later it hadn't dropped a single percent, granted it was locked the whole time but if I did this with my current S3 then I would of lost probably around 10 percent.
Can anybody recommend me a good ROM and tell me how much battery they're left with when they go to sleep/wake up. Approximately I will lose probably about 35-40% during the night.
right now i'm using the latest version of android revolution on my i9300
Stay on sammy based roms if you want better battery life, and if you want, stay on stock for stability, just fully debloat it from all of samsung crapola and install for ex. boeffla kernel. Kernel is the main succesor for good battery life in my opinion.
Then try playing with the kernel in boeffla settings, if you stick to zzmoove governor you'll get max 1% drop overnight (that's 8-9h).
Also to mention, all apps are greenified except Facebook and Whatsapp, WiFi was on but sync, gps, bluetooth etc was off, aaand battery is 1.5y old.
P(r)oof:
When i wen't to sleep round 1AM it was on 71%, in 9AM it was on 70%.
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I had boeffle before but didn't alter the default governor, just changed it to zzmove/zzmove battery so going to charge phone to full and see what drops I have, thanks for the tip
Hello. I've had a U30GT2 tablet which I picked up while on a trip in China for a great price (~$100 converted). I installed a custom 4.4.2 ROM on it and it worked perfectly for the past year and a half with no issues at all and a great battery life (7200 mAh IIRC). Two days ago however, I noticed it had died which was strange considering it was at near full that morning. After charging it to 100% (which only took 20 minutes, extremely strange) I unplugged it and used it to watch a YouTube video. Before the 23 minute video was finished, I got a low battery warning.
Rom I've been using for over a year without problems: Link
What I have tried so far:
Installed a battery monitoring app. It shows apps like Clash of Clans using 0.1% of the total battery over a 90% drain.
Factory reset the tablet, deleting all user content + apps. Problem persists.
Reflashed the ROM after formatting everything. Problem remains.
Flashed different ROM, no dice.
At this point I'm almost certain that one of the two internal batteries has gone bad and I am planning on opening the device later today, but wanted to make this post as a last-ditch effort to see if it is some rare firmware/kernel error after all.
Image of battery drain over <10 minutes:
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Image of charging process:
17A @ 3.7V = ~63W. My charger is 2A @ 12V = 24W. This doesn't make sense.
Image of "real time" battery mAh drain:
40,000 mAh at 3.7v = 148W! This HAS to be an error since you CAN NOT dissipate nearly 150W without some serious active cooling.
Try checking for wakelocks using Wakelock Detector on the Play Store.
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Hi, I know there are already many threads about it but I think I have a slightly different problem: while charging the phone is always active (as if he was doing something in the background) resulting in an extended charge time.
First thought: there must be an active process (developers opts-> show cpu usage) and ... nothing
Second thought: maybe "dmesg" can tell me something more and...
...well, that seems something
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The "adc" value of the battery significantly increases when connected to the wall charger, so even if the "adc_chg" value is high it is compensated by the high drain of the battery.
Am i wrong? Has someone any idea about the cause of the problem or about how to find it ?
Thanks (going mad, yet changed battery, charger and multiple USB flex ports )
You do know that our phone never deep sleeps when it is plugged? There is a specific wakelock for charging, which will keep the freq to 200mhz. As for battery drainage, nothing much can be done because our phone's charging capability is not advanced compared to newer phones and hence it is easy to drain the phone battery even when plugged. Doing simple things like closing all unused apps, keeping the screen off, turning off Bluetooth or WiFi may make the phone charge a little faster.
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I did know it, it was stated somewhere in the previous threads. What I forgot to mention is that, actually, I'm talking of an s2 with Greenify activated, no third party background process admitted except Telegram & Whatsapp services but charging in offline mode, screen always off. And still says it will take 2h 45m when charging starting from 65%, math can be done for when starting from 1%.
Time ago it only took about 1h 45m to charge completely, so it seems strange.
[s2 with Unofficial CyanogenMod 12.1 from Markox89 - build 20160219]