hi all
i flashed neatrom kk and then cm11 recently
but my poor 3 years old battery giving nonsense replies
it drop down from %80 to % 12-14 sunddenly after a reboot or crash
so is this because of my battery condition? or because of flashing roms?
and can callibration makes a differ? or is it just a myth?
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3 yrs old battery is the root of this problem. Flashing roms may affect your battery life but it happens only when you do it too much.
From my personal experience I can say that battery calibration is more a myth than necessity.
Im having the same issue. The best option is to buy a new one i presume
Correct. And calibration is an absolute myth. It's impossible to (re)calibrate these batteries.
There's a "Reset Fuel Gauge Chip" option in Dorimanx kernel and it stabilized my phones battery. It used to show 30% after a restart just right after i unplugged it from the power source:good::good:
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so as im a new user and i can't post in half of the forum, but i've still got this urgent question/ point to ask, here's my question:
i recently moved on the new 1.9.1 ressurection remix rom from the 1.3, and aswell changed my kernel to siyah, now lately my battery drains preety quick (yes i did burn it down to 0% and charged it over to 100% few times), but here's the thing, when once i had issues with screen burning 30%-45% of my battery, now it's lying low on 10%-20% while the real issue now is the "Android OS" which goes as high as 60%-70% of my battery, i've been trying to calibrate the battery and reset battery stats and discharge and recharge couple of times, but this just keeps going on... any way to solve this?
kiltev said:
so as im a new user and i can't post in half of the forum, but i've still got this urgent question/ point to ask, here's my question:
i recently moved on the new 1.9.1 ressurection remix rom from the 1.3, and aswell changed my kernel to siyah, now lately my battery drains preety quick (yes i did burn it down to 0% and charged it over to 100% few times), but here's the thing, when once i had issues with screen burning 30%-45% of my battery, now it's lying low on 10%-20% while the real issue now is the "Android OS" which goes as high as 60%-70% of my battery, i've been trying to calibrate the battery and reset battery stats and discharge and recharge couple of times, but this just keeps going on... any way to solve this?
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OK! I've read your situation. This is the only thing that I can recommend. Try installing a Gingerbread rom and see if the issue persists. If it does then some of your application could be the culprit behind the battery draining issue. But again, thats just a guess...And if it is one of your applications that is causing the drain then you should install bettebatterystats from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Then charge your battery to 100% and try a new calibration method, maybe you haven't heard of it. But if you charge till 100% then take out the battery for exactly 3 minutes and put it back in and power up your phone and use your phone normally as you do and then at 20% or lower go and check betterbatterystats and see what is causing the most of the battery drain.
Have a great day and good luck with the battery drain, hope this helps!!
Did you check the ROM FAQ about battery draining?
Please check it out. There is also an example of making some changes using extweaks which comes installed by default with ICS Resurrection 1.9.1.
Here is the link to FAQ.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26341532&postcount=33924
beston94 said:
OK! I've read your situation. This is the only thing that I can recommend. Try installing a Gingerbread rom and see if the issue persists. If it does then some of your application could be the culprit behind the battery draining issue. But again, thats just a guess...And if it is one of your applications that is causing the drain then you should install bettebatterystats from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Then charge your battery to 100% and try a new calibration method, maybe you haven't heard of it. But if you charge till 100% then take out the battery for exactly 3 minutes and put it back in and power up your phone and use your phone normally as you do and then at 20% or lower go and check betterbatterystats and see what is causing the most of the battery drain.
Have a great day and good luck with the battery drain, hope this helps!!
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i did read about the new method today, but havent had the chance to try it yet.
im not sure if it's a certain application that causes it, but in the battery stats it points out "Android OS", i've seen many galaxy nexus users complain about the same problem, even with stock kernel/roms, and galaxy S2 users that moved from gingerbread to ICS. it's logical that ICS will take more battery because of the control over multiple cpus and all this kind of stuff but im not sure how much it is about that "Android OS".
anyway ill try to have this battery calibration new method once my battery will drain out, and im probably not going to go down to gingerbread again because i already know its not gonna persist because i remmember how my phone behaved on GB and that those 2 systems work completely different and i want to solve the drain per ICS and not solve the issue by downgrading back down to gingerbread.
thank you for your time and help anyway
fxa5209 said:
Did you check the ROM FAQ about battery draining?
Please check it out. There is also an example of making some changes using extweaks which comes installed by default with ICS Resurrection 1.9.1.
Here is the link to FAQ.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26341532&postcount=33924
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thanks for the link, i haven't noticed too much i havent done yet, they poiny siyah kernel as one of the 3 good 1s that work well with the rom for better battery, and i am testing different governors, clocks and voltages but there's many options so i can't do it all in an instant so it takes time...
thanks for your help
Hi guys!
I'm experiencing some problems with my Galaxy S III.
I've been changing and testing ROM's for my Galaxy S III for a few months, and i decided that the best ROM for my device is the ARHD (Thx Mike).
But every ROM i try i experience poor battery life.
I got 1% drain/4 hours with everything turned off.
If I'm playing a game like Jetpack Joyride or Plague Inc... 30 mins of gameplay is ~30% battery (94-63%).
What can i do? I know the "wipe battery stats" trick, in CWM recovery, but it's not a big difference.
It is possible that my unit is defective (purchase date 27 July 2012). I got EXCELLENT battery life with the ICS 4.0.4 ROM, unrooted. But if i put the old ICS back, i got the same thing...
What can i do? Is a "bad" file in my phone that corrupts everything?
Every ideea is welcomed.
Thx.
What can i do? I know the "wipe battery stats" trick, in CWM recovery, but it's not a big difference.
>>. has no bearing on battery life .
It is possible that my unit is defective (purchase date 27 July 2012). I got EXCELLENT battery life with the ICS 4.0.4 ROM, unrooted. But if i put the old ICS back, i got the same thing.
Very unlikely but a full wipe and flash a stock rom with no user apps will allow you to test before asking service centre .
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I've done a superwipe before installing the ARHD13, and also done wipe in AROMA.
1%/4hours is very good, that wont get any better, it would get you 400 hours of standby time.
Your experience with bad blife when playing games makes me think the drainage is mostly caused by screen & cpu. Try lower brightness, battery save mode in Settings, and/or diffrrent cpu governor settings ( governor determines how fast cpu steps up) . It doesnt seem to be ROM relatef, more kernel related. Try a diffrrent kernel.
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Screen 50-55% with AUTO.
Power saving activated (CPU limit and no vibration).
I am running ARHD 13 with Perseus kernel. Can you recommend me a simple and good kernel?
Please help... i need advice for a good kernel.
I don't know what to do...
siyah kernel is a good one will help in your battery here is the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1709686 and btw 1%/4 hours is just fine but the 2 games you mentioned drains a lot of battery that is the normal your battery is just fine and btw if you downgraded to ICS i would recommend to install the cell standby fix that may give you up to 1%/9 or 10 hours that is pretty good and here is the link to it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722 download the flashable zip file and just flash it using the clock work mod
khrystyan27 said:
Hi guys!
I'm experiencing some problems with my Galaxy S III.
I've been changing and testing ROM's for my Galaxy S III for a few months, and i decided that the best ROM for my device is the ARHD (Thx Mike).
But every ROM i try i experience poor battery life.
I got 1% drain/4 hours with everything turned off.
If I'm playing a game like Jetpack Joyride or Plague Inc... 30 mins of gameplay is ~30% battery (94-63%).
What can i do? I know the "wipe battery stats" trick, in CWM recovery, but it's not a big difference.
It is possible that my unit is defective (purchase date 27 July 2012). I got EXCELLENT battery life with the ICS 4.0.4 ROM, unrooted. But if i put the old ICS back, i got the same thing...
What can i do? Is a "bad" file in my phone that corrupts everything?
Every ideea is welcomed.
Thx.
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Standby time doesn't sound that bad to me, do you get that sort of drain with every game? Otherwise it might just be those games aren't well optimised so use more than you expect.
If you were experiencing terrible standby time it might be the kernel or a rouge app using data/cpu cycles/gps in the background but as that seems to be fine it would indicate this isn't the issue.
Have you tried another battery, if you are finding the same with many different ROMs it is more likely to be that your battery is just getting old. My original battery won't last a day already, stick a new battery in and the life increases massively.
I got one of these and it is much better than the standard battery http://www.amazon.co.uk/Warranty-An...PK/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1351932644&sr=8-12
I don't have many games, because i don't crack anything (only original).
But on every game i get a huge battery drain (Jetpack Joyride, Plague Inc, Jumping Slime). Most of the games, are not a source of CPU/GPU stress, but the battery drain is huge 1%/1-2 minutes.
On Wi-Fi, is not so bad... 30 mins of browsing/downloading is 8-10% battery usage.
I don't think the problem is the battery, the phone is about 4-5 months old. What else can it be?
Is there any solution for me?
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I have done a full wipe, and installed ARHD14 with the latest Siyah kernel.
I have done the following settings:
CPU SETTINGS: Gentle Fair Sleepers -YES
CPU IDLE AND POWER SETTINGS: Idle + LPA (Default)
CPU UNDERVOLTING: -25mV
CPU SCALING SETTINGS: pegasusq
MAX CPU LOCK: Dual Core
SCALING MAX FREQ: 1Ghz
SCALING MIN FREQ: 200Mhz
Can i go further? What can i do?
The battery is 15-20% better, if i can say...
Battery problem?
Maybe it is l like the battery problem so maybe get it replaced.
Ok, i will try to test it on a Li-ION battery analyzer, to test the real amperage of the battery.
Many people told me to replace the battery, cuz is likely to be defective.
I will buy the Seidio 3500mAh model.
khrystyan27 said:
Many people told me to replace the battery, cuz is likely to be defective.
I will buy the Seidio 3500mAh model.
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Did the new battery help?
Can i calibrate my battery now? After flashing 3 Roms. Which is the best app or way to do it safely in the CHD?
I don't feel any major battery issues nor that it hold too less of power but still i saw that many recommend to do a battery calibration after installing a custom ROM or at least once a month to ensure better battery life and the amount of charge it holds.
Hi guys,
I wanted to share with you my experience on my device, perhaps some other have the same problem and has solution.
Before I was using 2000mAh battery but it bloat out so I bought a new 1650mAh battery. The problem is that it just turned off when it reaches 40% without even prompting a low batt notification. I thought I bought a defective battery so I purchased a new one again, but it has the same problem. I was using custom roms btw and flashing CM11 nightlies every day or whenever update pops. Does it affects this or should I just recalibrate the device because my old 2000mAh.
Thanks for the help in advance.
deedii said:
Hi guys,
I wanted to share with you my experience on my device, perhaps some other have the same problem and has solution.
Before I was using 2000mAh battery but it bloat out so I bought a new 1650mAh battery. The problem is that it just turned off when it reaches 40% without even prompting a low batt notification. I thought I bought a defective battery so I purchased a new one again, but it has the same problem. I was using custom roms btw and flashing CM11 nightlies every day or whenever update pops. Does it affects this or should I just recalibrate the device because my old 2000mAh.
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Is this a genuine battery. You could try resetting battery stats or use dorimanx kernel to reset fuel guage.
Thanks for the help in advance.
Well the first battery i bought was just a class A, the second battery I just bought a while ago is genuine and its the same result. I will try to flash stock ROM and see if it still occurs, now I just tried calibrating the battery stats.
gsstudios said:
Is this a genuine battery. You could try resetting battery stats or use dorimanx kernel to reset fuel guage.
Thanks for the help in advance.
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Don't they say resetting battery stats has only a placebo effect?
I'm having exactly the same problem. I bought two new original batteries and the problem persists. It just doesn't happen with my 2011 original battery.
Thank you
Well i read some articles that returning to stock rom should fix it well im still experimenting on the problem.
deedii said:
Well i read some articles that returning to stock rom should fix it well im still experimenting on the problem.
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Did you check the battery voltage level just before 40%? If I understand correclty, my guess is that the battery should range from 4.1 to 3.3volts, as it has been specified as 3.7v.
In my case, it was around 3.6 volts when close to 40%, which seems to be a reasonable voltage for 40%. But then it suddenly drops to 3.2v (which I measured with a multimeter, since the phone goes dead at around 40%). I have started to beleive the battery is the problem.
Regards
thunder45 said:
Did you check the battery voltage level just before 40%? If I understand correclty, my guess is that the battery should range from 4.1 to 3.3volts, as it has been specified as 3.7v.
In my case, it was around 3.6 volts when close to 40%, which seems to be a reasonable voltage for 40%. But then it suddenly drops to 3.2v (which I measured with a multimeter, since the phone goes dead at around 40%). I have started to beleive the battery is the problem.
Regards
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Well sad im no electricity expert, so I dunno how would I measure it. Im considering returning the original batt i purchased, I will see if this still persist. Thanks
deedii said:
Well sad im no electricity expert, so I dunno how would I measure it. Im considering returning the original batt i purchased, I will see if this still persist. Thanks
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Battery voltage can be measured using apps like cpu-z and go to the battery section. Software readings are slightly less accurate than multimeter but does the job anyway. 3700mV = 3.7V (conversion of mV to V)
Howdy! A few weeks ago I noticed on my phone that the battery did not last as long as before. I said it would be from the software and I decided to reinstall it. First, I switched to a custom ROM (Pixel Experience) and there the battery life was even worse. Then I went back to stock ROM and it seemed to work better, but the battery was still discharging too fast.
I put an application for measuring battery life (AccuBattery) that told me that my battery (one year old) was at 79% life (3100 mAh). I replaced the battery with a new one. Surprise! And with the new battery still at 79% life it says it is. And the same 3100 mAh maximum capacity. I tried all kinds of methods, all kinds of custom ROMs and it all works the same. What could it be? Has anyone had a similar problem?
Thanks!
Nope. No issues with mine. You said you changed the battery, so you opened the device? I'm not inclined with HW too much, but since you've tried the most drastic solution software wise (flashing custom and MIUI ROM) then it could be a hardware issue by this point.
Again, not a hardware guy, but maybe there is a loose wiring or connection (to the battery) or maybe a short-circuit. If you need further help maybe ask help from a repair guy. But that's just my take (possible hardware issue)