Have had this phone for about 2 - 3 weeks. Starting yesterday, I noticed the battery draining abnormally fast. I am not using any email client other than gmail. So basically, nothing in my routine changed. I didn't install any new apps, or started using any apps that I wasn't using before. Essentially, out of the blue, my battery is draining like crazy now. I had to recharge it mid day yesterday, had about 30% left before going to bed, woke up and phone was dead.
This is the s6's battery..i go out at 8 and at 12 my phone shuts down..buy an external pack and youll be fine
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The reason I made the thread is because the battery was fine for me until a couple a days ago, now it drains 30% over night and I can barely get through half a day on light use. One problem after another with this phone. I guess I have to do a factory reset.
Booting into safe mode could tell you if the fast drain was caused by a rogue app.
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I have had my White AT&T Note for about a week. It is running Saurom RCV with the HoloNote kernel OCed to 1782mHz. I am having a really weird battery issue where it will drain to about 5% in a couple of hours regardless of what I am doing to it, then that 5% will last the rest of the day but the phone, thinking the battery is about to die, wont let me do anything (ie. listen to music or take a picture). Then, yesterday it started not charging all the way, it will stop at about 94% and then the notification that its fully charged will come up. No matter what I do it will not go past 94%. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
have you try to recalibrate your battery stats through CWM?
try that first........charge your battery to full......clear stats....drain all the battery...then recharge to full......that should help you with ur problem
First take the battery out and make sure you don't see anything on the contacts (phone or battery). Then leave the phone on until it dies on its own - easiest if you use something that will keep the screen on. Then charge overnight, unplug, replug and let it charge again until it stops. Turn it on, go through your day and report back.
I have tired both of your suggestions. I left it streaming a movie from Netflix and it took two movies at full brightness (or as full as it would let me) to kill off the last 5%. I apologize as I should have specified that I am posting on here having already tried conventional calibration techniques. Also, the stopping at 94% only started AFTER I used CWM to reset the battery stats.
Ambrosios said:
have you try to recalibrate your battery stats through CWM?
try that first........charge your battery to full......clear stats....drain all the battery...then recharge to full......that should help you with ur problem
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Does not do anything.
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I've never used CWM. Have you tried using it again?
I have noticed another "quirk", it seems that when my phone is sleeping for a long period of time, more than an hour, it will usually display more percentage than when I set it down. For instance I decided not to charge it last night as I was hoping it would die in the night however when I got up this morning it read 51% whereas it was at 26% when I left it. I am starting to think that there is something wrong with the hardware. Opinions?
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I didn't nitice this till last Tuesday. I forgot to charge my note the night before, and when I woke up I had 19% left. Around 10am I received a notification that my battery is critically low. I wasn't going home till 12, and I was texting heavily for 2 hours through whatsapp on 4g network, and nothing, the phone didn't turn off. I got home and plugged it in while it was still on. The only thing the phone did was turn down the brightness completely, im not sure if that 's the reason for the extra 2 hours, but that seems too much. Before i plugged in the phone it had 23 hours on battery with 4 hours 44 mins screen on time.
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Has anybody experienced any of these issues on a stock note? Also, I tend to agree, if Samsung had really figured out a way to make the end of the battery last that long we probably wouldn't be having this issue.
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I exchanged my Note for a replacement at the store and that has made a world of difference. It would seem that my suspensions about my hardware were correct. If you are having the same issues I recommend a replacement.
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I've had this battery problem before and then it suddenly went away, and now it's back once again. I posted this in the captivate forums and got no luck. I've searched on google multiple times and found no solutions. Just recently, my captivate battery has been draining very fast. I've been going from 100% to 0 in about 8-12 hours. The main battery consumer is Android System. There are no processes that are keeping the phone on according to BatterBatteryStats. I loose about 7-8 percent every hour while it is in idle/deep sleep. If I enable the extreme setting on Juice Defender, it bumps up the battery life to about 45+ hours. But if I use juice defender, sending and receiving mms is very difficult. I tried it on another spare battery and it gave me the same results. This problem started earlier this week and was present when I first flashed a ICS rom back in June and hasn't gone away yet. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? I did not change any settings or flash anything new to my phone. One day it suddenly went from 100% to 40% in 5 hours and after I rebooted it dropped to 5% in a matter of minutes. I recalibrated the battery but that did not do anything.
Your battery might be going bad?
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From last 3 days battery drain of my Micromax Canvas HD A116 has been tremendous especially at night in standby mode. Before I go to sleep at around 12:30 a.m When I check the battery it's between 40% - 50% and when I get up at 7 a.m in the morning just to find the cell has got switched off. The drain is so heavy that it doesn't even power up for the alarm. In the attached pic you can see the complete drain marked in red color and the cell standby and phone idle are the highest battery consumer.
Previously I thought it was BBM messenger which is the battery consumer so I removed it but in vain as the problem still continues. Kindly help as what I need to do to resolve this problem.
Device: Micromax Canvas HD A116
ROM: JB 4.2.1
Service Provider: Reliance Communication
Network Mode: 2G/3G
Data Connection: ON
same problem here
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@lihkin:
Download and install Juice Defender from Playstore. It won't drain your battery again at night.
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Problem looks to be with 4.4 apps like hangout etc. , read in some place. Recollect once if on same time line you installed these?
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Well I really don't think the drain is due to application as if you see in my previous screenshot I am charging the handset and by 12:30 in afternoon I charged it completely to 100%. That charge last for almost 12 and 1/2 hour without any recharge as you can see in the current screen shot attached even after 11 hours battery was at 47% and then some what near 35% it made a steep drop to 15%(strange) and then it lasted for like an hour or so. Beside that my data connection was continuously on and all sync was on. My talktime was of 4 hour in that period and yet it sustained also gaming to some extent like for 20 min. or so and again in night was connected to my wifi yet it survived this huge load.
So around 1 am in midnight it got drained completely and then I put it on charge in switched off mode, at around 4:45 am in morning I removed it from charge with battery completely charged(100%) and then I switched it on and went back to sleep. After 2hr i.e. at 7 am when I woke up the battery went down to 89% without a single use(I didn't even unlock the phone after I switched it on) almost 11% battery drain is seen in stand by mode and that's the point of concern.
So one thing is for sure the drain is not because of any application also in last few days it's my observation that the place where I keep my mobile used to be covered properly under HSDPA n/w and always use to have H or H+ as the network symbol but now it shows E and it might be switching to and fro and I guess that might be the one reason for the drain.
Kindly share your view on this and also your guidance if you have any
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Well I really don't think the drain is due to application as if you see in my previous screenshot I am charging the handset and by 12:30 in afternoon I charged it completely to 100%. That charge last for almost 12 and 1/2 hour without any recharge as you can see in the current screen shot attached even after 11 hours battery was at 47% and then some what near 35% it made a steep drop to 15%(strange) and then it lasted for like an hour or so. Beside that my data connection was continuously on and all sync was on. My talktime was of 4 hour in that period and yet it sustained also gaming to some extent like for 20 min. or so and again in night was connected to my wifi yet it survived this huge load.
So around 1 am in midnight it got drained completely and then I put it on charge in switched off mode, at around 4:45 am in morning I removed it from charge with battery completely charged(100%) and then I switched it on and went back to sleep. After 2hr i.e. at 7 am when I woke up the battery went down to 89% without a single use(I didn't even unlock the phone after I switched it on) almost 11% battery drain is seen in stand by mode and that's the point of concern.
So one thing is for sure the drain is not because of any application also in last few days it's my observation that the place where I keep my mobile used to be covered properly under HSDPA n/w and always use to have H or H+ as the network symbol but now it shows E and it might be switching to and fro and I guess that might be the one reason for the drain.
Kindly share your view on this and also your guidance if you have any
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I had the same issue except, in my case when it reached 25%, it dropped very quickly. So I calibrated my battery and its working fine now. This app is available in play store free of cost but you have to rooted to use it.
link to play store- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en
Hit thanks if I helped.
Hi all, thanks in advance for your help.
I've been having crazy drain trouble with my stock battery for about six months now (the battery is currently 15 months old). It's draining like crazy, it goes from 100% to dead after two hours of browsing/reading an ebook, even less if I'm playing something like Candy Crush Saga or Asphalt 7. I tried going through several apps such as Wakelock Detector, Better Battery Stats, tried recalibrating the battery and haven't found an obvious culprit - other than the screen, which alone uses up something between 40 and 60% of the battery.
Is this normal?
Sometimes, when the battery is at 30% or less, it will just drop by several percent in the matter of seconds, for example if I switch on mobile internet. If I'm using the phone at <10%, the screen will sometimes start flickering, and the phone will freeze and remain like that until I switch it off manually.
In addition, if I connect the phone to charge, in about 70% of times, it will incorrectly show something like 45-55%, even though it's depleted. Then it remains like that until it's charged up to that point and then the percentage starts rising again.
Honestly, I'm tired of having to bring my charger everywhere and ending up with a dead phone whenever I need it for a longer period of time. I don't remember the last time my battery didn't die by the afternoon
I'm facing exactly the same issues and yes, honestly I believe it's time for a new battery.
After 15 months, assuming daily charging, you would have approx. 450 charging cycles. Lion batteries are known to age and to lose capacity after so many cycles. Try a new battery, if the problem persists, have your phone checked.
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My DNA battery has gone crazy. Last night the battery was at 66%, I restarted it and the battery went up to 76%. Today, the battery was at 33%, I rebooted it and the battery dropped to 17%. After that I rebooted it again to see if it would go back up and it dropped to 14%. So I did it one last time and that battery then went up to 24%. I dont get it and on top of that my battery life has been terrible recently.
To try to extend it I have installed Lux to manage the screen brightness, I have turned off backup and Google Location Service.
I got Nova Launcher yesterday to see if that helps, I'm using Greenify to close apps and CleanMaster to get rid of junk. I dont use Google Now or have any apps sync/receive notifications besides Messages and Phone. I can't get through the day and I don't use my phone from 7am to 12 in the afternoon.
I have 25 apps installed from Google Play and all the bloatware and useless apps disabled. I use Next Browser instead of Stock/Chrome
Any solutions or suggestions
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My DNA battery has gone crazy. Last night the battery was at 66%, I restarted it and the battery went up to 76%. Today, the battery was at 33%, I rebooted it and the battery dropped to 17%. After that I rebooted it again to see if it would go back up and it dropped to 14%. So I did it one last time and that battery then went up to 24%. I dont get it and on top of that my battery life has been terrible recently.
To try to extend it I have installed Lux to manage the screen brightness, I have turned off backup and Google Location Service.
I got Nova Launcher yesterday to see if that helps, I'm using Greenify to close apps and CleanMaster to get rid of junk. I dont use Google Now or have any apps sync/receive notifications besides Messages and Phone. I can't get through the day and I don't use my phone from 7am to 12 in the afternoon.
I have 25 apps installed from Google Play and all the bloatware and useless apps disabled. I use Next Browser instead of Stock/Chrome
Any solutions or suggestions
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Maybe just try to do full cycles with the batter to re-calibrate it, charge it up 100%+ and drain it 99%, rinse/repeat a few times.
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Maybe just try to do full cycles with the batter to re-calibrate it, charge it up 100%+ and drain it 99%, rinse/repeat a few times.
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Ive read that you arent supposed to drain the battery and this phone is unpredictable for when it will turn off from a low battery.
Sometimes it turns off at 8%, sometimes it might turn off at 2%
eric150 said:
Ive read that you arent supposed to drain the battery and this phone is unpredictable for when it will turn off from a low battery.
Sometimes it turns off at 8%, sometimes it might turn off at 2%
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You're right about draining the battery however we cannot fully drain these batteries. The system shuts the phone down when it hits a certain level, however you can still power the device back on after it does this, thus the battery still has charge and not fully drained.
And yes they can be unpredictable.
Mine will shut down when it gets to about 5 percent but I was using it one time and it went from 8 to 2 in a second and powered itself down. I think they all act weird when they get really low but your issue sounds like the battery is on its last leg.
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According to your battery stats, what's draining the battery the most? Also download GSam battery stats to get a more detailed look at the apps and services that are consuming battery.
Maybe your battery is past its prime, but you want to be sure its not an app or service draining things before giving up.
My Droid 3 and 4 are still going strong as long as I charge them fully and then periodically drain them to 10%.