Recently I have replaced my SGS3 stock firmware by CM 11.2. Until now everything is OK except one little thing, when I charge my phone it doesn't reach 100% though charging for more than two hours and the LED became green.
I googled this issue and found lot of solutions but most of them talking about "calibration". If anybody faced something like this please tell me about your experience and do calibration really solve it?
I'd give it a few battery cycles
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Calibration is a myth so ignore that, towards capacity the phone trickle charges so it can take quite a while to top up those last few percentage points.
Totally agree with @ghostofcain about battery calibration read this >> http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...-battery-stats-does-not-improve-battery-life/ <<
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Hello,
So my problem is that the battery is charging & discharging very fast. Charging takes about 1.5 hour from ~0% to 100%, so 1%=1min. It isn't normal, I've had this problems some times. For the last time I'm charging it every time I can, so I don't care if the battery is low. You think this is the reason. I've already did the calibration but didn't help. For now my only idea is to charge it only when the battery is almost empty. Did You had such a problem already?How did You solve it?
PS. Happens on every ROM now
I had that exact problem with my g/f's x10i. Normally it was because of an app that was misbehaving and I'd just uninstall it. Just check ur battery info and see what the culprit is. Ideally you should have like screen as top process, cell standby and phone idle most likely following (in general that is). I still hav some problems from time to time but worst case the battery gives me a full day. You can also wipe battery stats in recovery and try the "manual recalibration" that is letting it un completely down (not even vibrating when you try to power on) and then charge to full, then repeat. Did wonders for me on the x10i and my xperia play. Really hope this helps man, I know how frustrating it can be.
Hit thanks if I helped!!
Just read that it happens on every rom. Battery may be bad but still try the battery wipe from xrec and charge with it off. Calibration never hurts. GL
Jakuburban, have you checked if there is not any software causing memory or CPU huge consumption present? Remember we have solved it in your another thread... but to ensure for it
Also, there might be two another problems:
1.) battery lost its capacity rapidly (might cause after e.g. 2 years of huge usage)
2.) hardware issue - there might be present "parasitive resistance" somewhere on the battery pads or on PCB traces. Which can drain battery everytime.
No, none of the programs is battery unfriendly. It's not gettong hot and the screen usage is on the top as You say.
@HeliumX10 I remember that problem but it's different now. CPU usage is allright. It's just charging and discharging to fast. E.G. my brothers SGS2 is charging about 4 hours to full and he can use it all day long. My battery is charging in less than 2 hours and I can only use it for 1/2 of a day. It's like it is charging only half of the battery ( capacity) and it shows that it is full.
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I ended up buying 2 extra batteries and an external charger off of Amazon for $12. I never plug it in.
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Hey guys..
I noticed something weird on my galaxy s3. Whenever i charge my device till 100% and take it off from charger, it goes down to 99% immediatly. I thought it could be a bug in my current rom so i flashed another one. But the buf still exists. I even changed kernels. Still same problem. I am running latest foxhound rom
+franco r5 kernel right now.
Is there any solution for this bug?
Hope someone can help me.
Best regards
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It is not a bug, that's how it is made.
If the phone charged to 100% and sat there for a long time, the battery would lose charge cycles and life faster. So what it does, is one of two things:
It will either NEVER actually charge to 100%, or
It will charge to 100%, take itself off the charger to about 95%, and then charge again to 100%, over and over.
HTC does the second one, I think the S3 does the first.
Thanks for the answer.
I didnt know that. Its just so weird because on every of my previous phones the battery stayed on 100%.
But anyways thanks
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break1 said:
Thanks for the answer.
I didnt know that. Its just so weird because on every of my previous phones the battery stayed on 100%.
But anyways thanks
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I know, I don't like it either haha. Some phones will even say "100%" right off the charger even if they're not actually at 100%, which is why sometimes you see people that take their phone off the charger at 100% and a few minutes later they are at 95, etc.
There have been a lot of questions about this in sammy roms, and also in the s1. And it got me thinking about it this way.
As soon as you disconnect the phone from the charger it's dropped to 99%. But in my head, I say it has had to have even used the most minimal amount of juice and is 'technically' no longer at 100%.
Some are saying other phones are reporting batteries on 100% for up to an hour after disconnecting from the charger. That might look great, but there is no way that is correct either, because it has to have used some juice in that hour.
Maybe samsung don't like pandering to the needs of the masses re battery use reporting. Maybe sammy is the only one reporting a correct level.
Me, I don't care. My phone lasts just fine. Are you getting better battery life than your last phone? Haven't I read that the 1x has ordinary battery life? Does it's percentage stay at 100% for a long time? If so, that would be a bit of a rip off to me.
I know sammy have included the option to show the battery percentage within the settings of the s3. I don't use it, and my battery indicator stays at 100% until the battery reaches about 90%. Works for me.
Batteries never charge to 100% anyways to avoid the battery over-charging and exploding
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Charge stops at 54%
Hi,
My SIII e fully stock and a few days now it does not charge past 54%. i tried to drain the battery completely and charge it after ant same thing happened. I can leave it overnight charging and it stops at 54%. Any solutions?
Thanks,
Hi again
I know this is a well know issue but i wanted to ask something about the batteries and this problem. For some reason when i bought my Atrix it came with the bh5x, but i bought a bh6x after a few months. The problem is that when i started flashing roms the battery stopped charging to 100% with the bh6x, in some roms it charges to 93%, sometimes to 72%, etc; but my stock battery every time charges up to 100%. I know it may sound crazy, how can batteries affect this percentage since the charge it's the same, only the mAh.
The bh6x charges up to 100% (my phones says) when i charge it with the wall charger. I'm now using the bh6x in case of i ran out of battery with the bh5x because for some reason, using the bh6x while charged with the external charger, my camera stops working, it force closes. At the beginning i thought that this could be just coincidence, but i haven't had that problem since i put the bh5x as the primary one.
For me it doesn't make sense that the stock one charges full, and the bh6x(original) doesn't. I thought that there could be some file or configuration on the phone that i've not seen, i'm not a professional in this rom stuff, but i know at least the basics.
Has someone experienced something like this?
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Hi again
I know this is a well know issue but i wanted to ask something about the batteries and this problem. For some reason when i bought my Atrix it came with the bh5x, but i bought a bh6x after a few months. The problem is that when i started flashing roms the battery stopped charging to 100% with the bh6x, in some roms it charges to 93%, sometimes to 72%, etc; but my stock battery every time charges up to 100%. I know it may sound crazy, how can batteries affect this percentage since the charge it's the same, only the mAh.
The bh6x charges up to 100% (my phones says) when i charge it with the wall charger. I'm now using the bh6x in case of i ran out of battery with the bh5x because for some reason, using the bh6x while charged with the external charger, my camera stops working, it force closes. At the beginning i thought that this could be just coincidence, but i haven't had that problem since i put the bh5x as the primary one.
For me it doesn't make sense that the stock one charges full, and the bh6x(original) doesn't. I thought that there could be some file or configuration on the phone that i've not seen, i'm not a professional in this rom stuff, but i know at least the basics.
Has someone experienced something like this?
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There is a fix for that. I can't remember who did it, or what it is called, but it is in the dev. section.
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There is a fix for that. I can't remember who did it, or what it is called, but it is in the dev. section.
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Yeah, i know that there is a fix for that, but that was not the question, otherwise i would just download it over again. The intrigue here was that it's akward that my stock battery( bh5x) charges always to 100% without problems, but my replacement battery(bh6x) doesn't and when i charge with the wall charger it seems to cause problems with the camera, i just wanted to see if someone had the same problem, or even just the one in the camera....
I believe everyone got their atrix with the bh6x, don't know why mine came with bh5x...
Well, I have bh6x.
The battery was always charging to 100%
Untill last Tuesday.
I am on epinter's JellyBean, I was getting up to 30hrs of battery life. On Tuesday I dropped my phone, not a big hit but enought to cause the battery fell off. It was at around 75% at the time. Once I put it back in it showed 1%. Wipe stats, rebooting, nothing changed. Now after a full night of charging the meter shows 30% max. The battery seems to be fully charged as the batt calibration shows 4200mAh and the battery still lasts a very long time it just reports the wrong percentage.
Anyone knows what could cause it and how to fix it?
kufel said:
Well, I have bh6x.
The battery was always charging to 100%
Untill last Tuesday.
I am on epinter's JellyBean, I was getting up to 30hrs of battery life. On Tuesday I dropped my phone, not a big hit but enought to cause the battery fell off. It was at around 75% at the time. Once I put it back in it showed 1%. Wipe stats, rebooting, nothing changed. Now after a full night of charging the meter shows 30% max. The battery seems to be fully charged as the batt calibration shows 4200mAh and the battery still lasts a very long time it just reports the wrong percentage.
Anyone knows what could cause it and how to fix it?
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Well, i think you are in the case that upndwn4par said. For that there is a post in the developer section that is called Atrix battery fix, something like that, you can search it.
There are some other methods in another post that consisted in charging and disconnect the battery from the phone and wait for the question mark to appear in the screen, then putting it back again and let it charge for a while, after that it will show you 100%, but for me it only worked for 1 time. I think the post is called something like " The ultimate battery guide" .... i can't remember exactly the title
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Well, i think you are in the case that upndwn4par said. For that there is a post in the developer section that is called Atrix battery fix, something like that, you can search it.
There are some other methods in another post that consisted in charging and disconnect the battery from the phone and wait for the question mark to appear in the screen, then putting it back again and let it charge for a while, after that it will show you 100%, but for me it only worked for 1 time. I think the post is called something like " The ultimate battery guide" .... i can't remember exactly the title
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This one? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333
I also have this problem
same, i have got 2 offical battery, and 2 china, and if i change the battery, even if they are fully charged, my Atrix report wrong value....
The battery fix by jaggernaut is for Gingerbread. I am running JellyBean.
By the way: funny thing happened: I dropped the phone again, so the battery fell out abruptly again... Now it reports the percentage properly...
Although there are similar reports of battery issues, I haven't found anyone with the same issue. I have an SGS2 running 4.0.4 - all stock and although I'm on Orange, it's not an Orange handset. It's just over a year old.
Since being on 4.0.4, I've noticed the battery level drops when I switch it back on/reboot. It has been dropping by 20-30% but recently it's been dropping all the way to 1%. It has also taken to switching itself off with no warning (or shutdown) - I can only assume because it suddenly thinks the battery is at 0% despite what it was seconds beforehand.
As a typical example, it was charged to 100% (4200mV as shown via *#0228#). After a few hours standard use, it was around 60%. Then, seemingly when I'm doing something intensive like recording video or downloading something over a data connection, the screen goes off and I realise it's dead. I restart and the "battery critical" warning comes up - 1%. It dies again and I remove the battery for a minute, put it back, then power up. This time it says 9%. Then after a short while it dies again. So I connect the charger. After a couple of seconds, the battery charging indicator shows about a 1/3rd full. I switch on and the battery is now at 46%. Whatever the issue, reattaching the charger seems to rescue it - even if it's not back to the original level. The charge levels (in mV) seem to match the percentage.
This happened so much that a few weeks ago, it wouldn't even start and I had to wipe and reinstall everything. It does work now, but still crashes at least once a day. I'm not sure what else to do other than wait for Jelly Bean and hope that will miraculously fix the problem.
I have attempted "battery calibration" though it's a bit difficult - and I've read that it doesn't actually work anyway.
I am a noob - so please treat me like an idiot in case I've missed something obvious.
Thanks.
Dude, I believe it's time to buy a new battery.
1.Battery Calibration apps don't work(They don't do anythight good) Battery calibrates selfs...
2.I think that your battery is dead like my (Buy one it cheap)
3.And I think too that Insane gauge chip is very crazy...(You can reset it maybe helps... need flash Syiah and Get Stweaks)
I have the exact same problem, see this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2062056
Tomorrow I will buy a new battery, I can tell you if this will help me out
Yup, battery calibration is a myth. Google already states that you do not need to reset your fuel gauge for ICS/JB devices. All battery parameters are automatically reset when it's 100% charge.
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Thanks
I've ordered a new battery which I should have later this week. Let's see if that does anything useful. In the meantime, I'm attaching some battery meter screenshots to illustrate the problem.
Thanks for your suggestions so far!
xdanoober said:
Yup, battery calibration is a myth. Google already states that you do not need to reset your fuel gauge for ICS/JB devices. All battery parameters are automatically reset when it's 100% charge.
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No, this dont apply for us. Google stated that is useless wipe battery stats, the didnt say anything about our fuel gauge chip
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Solved
:victory: New battery installed and, 24hrs later, no crashes or glitches. My phone's as good as new. Thanks for the suggestions folks!:victory:
My battery went from 50% to 15% after a reboot.
The bizarre thing, though, was that I watched it increase from 15% to 20% charge even though it was not plugged in.
Weird...
Mr Anderson said:
My battery went from 50% to 15% after a reboot.
The bizarre thing, though, was that I watched it increase from 15% to 20% charge even though it was not plugged in.
Weird...
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fuel gauge.
I am facing a weird problem with my atrix.... 1 week ago battery was jumping from 100% to 77% then to 44% and suddenly turned off.
I tried to calibrate battery by charging to 4200mv and different tutorials to calibrate battery, I even tried to change the battery and with new battery it suddenly shutdown. It has been tested with different roms but the problem still exists. I am also attaching a screen shot where it is showing "Charging Control Unavailable". Can any one please advise....
mrtausif2004 said:
I am facing a weird problem with my atrix.... 1 week ago battery was jumping from 100% to 77% then to 44% and suddenly turned off.
I tried to calibrate battery by charging to 4200mv and different tutorials to calibrate battery, I even tried to change the battery and with new battery it suddenly shutdown. It has been tested with different roms but the problem still exists. I am also attaching a screen shot where it is showing "Charging Control Unavailable". Can any one please advise....
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So you didn't read the battery fix app thread? Not available in all ROMs. Maybe the battery is near the end of its life, it is a 2 1/2 yr old device...
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as palmbeach05 stated, not all roms support that option. And I agree with him, this is probably due to the battery reaching it's EOL