I was experiencing slow wifi speeds on my Moto Z Droid phone, as well as my wifes' and sister-in-laws'.
THE PHONE NEEDS TO BE PLUGGED IN TO RECEIVE PROPER WIFI DOWNLOAD SPEEDS!
I have spent hours upon hours upon hours trying to figure out why my phone was downloading so slow, and I stumbled upon the reason by accident. I performed the update to Android 7.1.1 that was released yesterday for Verizon, and was charging my phone throughout. The first thing I did when it booted was test the speed, and I got near 500. I thought that was the solution, then unplugged my phone for an unrelated reason, and once again getting about 150. Troubleshooted for a few minutes, then I plugged it back in for another unrelated reason, and I was back near 500. After all this, I decided to check this out with my wife's phone which was still on Android 7.0, and lo-and-behold, near 500 speeds when plugged in and charging, and under 150 when on battery.
This should be explained to users. Is there a way to maximize the speed when unplugged? The battery life on this phone is horrible as it is, because the battery is so small to make the phone smaller, so I do not believe so.
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It's really odd.
The Atrix is my first smartphone, I been super excited to get it! Finally got it today.
Well, the battery's a little iffy. It won't charge past 40% on USB. If I do it via AC adapter, it gets to 40% and the screen starts to flash on and off and disconnects itself from the AC adapter.
I updated to the most recent system update, and I don't believe it's changing anything.
I appreciate any help I can get!
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Well, weirdest thing. I was playing around with it, and set it to windows media sync. It immediately jumped to 50% battery.
I plugged it into the AC adapter, and it charged to 60%!
It only seems to report battery in 10% increments, but I don't know if that's default or not.
if it disconnects itself from the ac adapter, then you have a faulty phone.
My appologies if this question has been answered somewhere else, I could not find any other threads with a similar situation.
My phone was dropped and ever since then it has not shown me the right battery level. It will charge on USB or AC up to 99% and stop. I connected it to AC power 30 hours ago and it never gave me the green light. This is after a full drain and then recharge. It did however stop charging at some point. I noticed no light was on, red or green, turned on the phone and my battery had gone from 99% to 41% in 22 minutes. I plugged it into USB and it appears to be charging back up. My widget now shows 84% with 4334mV (i dont know if this is right or not).
It is not an issue with the battery. My wife has the same phone and I swapped batteries. Mine works fine in her phone and I have the same problem with hers.
My other issue is that when I use the phone off the charger it will not show me the level accurately when it is draining battery. Example being, I unplug the phone at 99%, within 5 minutes I'm down to 92% (i know this is not unusual because of how the batteries charge). But, I will stay at 92% for hours and hours, with moderate use of internet, phone, and apps. Then it will fall from 92 to 60 ish in a few minutes and do the same thing. Sometimes it will tell me that I'm getting low (under 15%) other times it just turns off a second or two after the notification. If I plug in the phone and turn it on it shows me 1% and charges up to 99%.
In the few minutes I have been typing my phone charged up to 91% with 4336mV.
I was running ViperRom ICS when the issue started. Restored it back to Stock with no root and the issue remained. Now I am running Mean Rom ICS with the same issues.
I have cleared the battery cache in recovery too.
Any help would be appreciated.
If you kiss it. your phone will love you and it'll be all better. NOW KISS IT AND TELL YOUR PHONE YOU'RE SORRY FOR DROPPING IT! LOL!
Based on my experience with batteries of all kinds, it sounds like one of the cells may be damaged. Best bet is to get a new battery. They are decently cheap for a good one. Im actually looking for an extended unit myself. If you come across one, please PM me.
Thanks
That was my first thought but when I swap my battery with my wife's battery I have the same problem. Both batteries work fine in her phone but not in mine.
Sorry to bring this up again, my bad. But seriously you are not the only one with this issue.. I had the same problem since stock, swap battery didn't help either.
I got my galaxy note back in July and The battery would get in the red a lot from my host sisters and their friends playing games but the phone didn't die too much. On jan 5th though my host family got wifi and my host sisters, their friends, my host mom, and some neighbors are always using my galaxy note and iPad pretty much until they die. Both devices are having to be charged daily because they either die or are having very low battery left. Today though when I went to unplug my note from my lap top the phone said 0% charging and died once I unplugged it. I could not get it to charge on my lap top and when I plugged it into the wall charger it started charging but did not show any green on the battery at first. So my question is could letting my phone die every day have hurt the battery? I charged it a little bit before coming here to the hotel for the faster Internet and while walking at 31% I was able to listen to music for about 30 minutes before arriving and now the battery is still in the yellow. Or could this have just been a hiccup on my lap top? I don't know if it matters but the current lap top in question was purchased in dec 2007 and running vista and every time I plug it again before the USB menu shows up I get a message on the pc saying it cannot recognize this device and the phone tells me to install some windows service packs, but so far that bad never stopped the phone from charging.
If I do have a bad battery is there a certain name for the one the galaxy note takes? Also would a foreign one work because I am currently in Gerogia and most of their electronics seem to be imported from Russia.
First, USB port on laptop most likely won't push enough power to charge the phone efficiently. It will take forever to charge.
And, letting your phone die is not going to break your battery, but it will be better not to let it die.
If your computer doesn't recognize the phone, you should install the driver file for the note. Not having driver file installed won't stop it from charging, because it will still power the device once it is connected.
There are many, many aftermarket batteries available for Galaxy note. As long as it is designed for Galaxy note, it should work.
Ok good to know but is it really important to instal the drivers because I can transfer pics fine to lap with out it. Also it seems the battery will lose its charge quicker while just being on then it did 4 months ago. Is that just due to wear and tear?
Drivers... not really, because the computer would just recognize it as a usb storage. But you mentioned that your comp doesn't recognize it, so... if that's a problem, driver will fix it.
As for battery draining, 4 months isn't too long of a time to start seeing drastic dropoff, but it is possible. However, you might have had installed widgets/apps and other mods affecting your battery life. When battery dies alot quicker than normal, it is more likely that you have some sort of app running in the background.
Hello, I've started having some weird battery issues with my HTC One X+, wonder if anybody else has seen this before. I've attached a screenshot of the battery graph for my phone, so you can see what I've been encountering.
It all started two days ago, when my phone charged down and shut off, despite being idle and connected to my laptop for USB charging the whole time. Since then, I've been seeing all kinds of wacky behavior with the battery stats. The status has been stuck on "11M 19S ON BATTERY" for the last three days. It discharges really fast even when idle, which it wasn't doing before. Last night, the battery chart shows the phone either being awake or with the screen on, but it is wrong: the phone was turned off.
I turned it off almost all of today, turning it on maybe 2-3 times just to check the charge and then immediately turning it off, and connected it to AC charging the whole time, but the battery charge seems to go up and down during that period! At this point, my battery stats seem completely corrupted, except for the fact that the phone does shut itself off when the charge goes to zero, so the total charge may be correct.
I'm not sure if this is a software issue or hardware, as I seem to be getting strange data from the software. I looked at many of the battery threads in this forum: they say to charge the phone to green and discharge a couple times, but I cannot get it to go to green again, even with the phone turned off and AC charging! I should still be covered by the 1-year manufacturer warranty: do I need to send it in for repair or this is some known software issue that I can fix myself? I'm running stock unrooted Android 4.2.2 Sense 5 on the international unlocked HOX+.
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Hello, I've started having some weird battery issues with my HTC One X+, wonder if anybody else has seen this before. I've attached a screenshot of the battery graph for my phone, so you can see what I've been encountering.
It all started two days ago, when my phone charged down and shut off, despite being idle and connected to my laptop for USB charging the whole time. Since then, I've been seeing all kinds of wacky behavior with the battery stats. The status has been stuck on "11M 19S ON BATTERY" for the last three days. It discharges really fast even when idle, which it wasn't doing before. Last night, the battery chart shows the phone either being awake or with the screen on, but it is wrong: the phone was turned off.
I turned it off almost all of today, turning it on maybe 2-3 times just to check the charge and then immediately turning it off, and connected it to AC charging the whole time, but the battery charge seems to go up and down during that period! At this point, my battery stats seem completely corrupted, except for the fact that the phone does shut itself off when the charge goes to zero, so the total charge may be correct.
I'm not sure if this is a software issue or hardware, as I seem to be getting strange data from the software. I looked at many of the battery threads in this forum: they say to charge the phone to green and discharge a couple times, but I cannot get it to go to green again, even with the phone turned off and AC charging! I should still be covered by the 1-year manufacturer warranty: do I need to send it in for repair or this is some known software issue that I can fix myself? I'm running stock unrooted Android 4.2.2 Sense 5 on the international unlocked HOX+.
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I thought I'd update with the latest. After a couple days of freaky battery behavior, I was finally able to get the HOX+ fully charged again, after which the problems went away, still no idea what caused it in the first place. I wanted to make sure it really went away before posting: it hasn't recurred in the weeks since.
I fell asleep last night with a podcast playing on my HOX+ at the lowest volume setting and held next to my ear, woke up this morning with only 50% battery used after 12 hours of almost continuous mp3 playback. I've always been impressed with how little battery this device uses while playing mp3s, still going strong. :victory:
Sigh, spoke too soon, it's constantly discharging again, no rhyme or reason why, and the charger can't keep up. The weirdest part as always is that it can't even recharge while turned off, implying there's a short circuit or something else wrong with the hardware. I'll see if I can get it to charge eventually, may have to turn it over to HTC this time.
I get service from Qlink. They sent me a refurb as all their phones are refurb, Sprint Samsung Galaxy S2. It came with 8 or 4gb and a 1400 battery or something. A much smaller battery then the retail phone.
Ever since I got it, it won't hold a charge. I don't remember if this started right after I got it because it took me a long time to notice it won't hold a charge. I'd charge it and when I would shut off the phone and try to turn it on a few days later it wouldn't boot. I'd have to charge it for hrs before it'd even boot. When I shut off phone it would always have over 70% battery. Then I notice it says connect to charger even though it is.
Then all of a sudden it stopped charging. I have a 4 port smart charger and cable that has no problems with my other android phone which is an unlocked Moto X Pure or my iPhone 6s Plus.
I ordered from Amazon a sprint galaxy s2 battery. Got it. Plug in and charge many hrs. Turn on. Battery shows about 93%. Turn off phone. Les then two hrs later I turn it on and lost 4% charge to 6%. That doesn't seem right. Turn off phone. Next day phone won't turn on. Hold power and vol down says no battery power. Leave it charge for hrs. Won't turn on. Finally it turns on. I notice battery going down 1% every 10 minutes or less. Not right. Just sitting there.
Then I notice it looses battery % even while charging. % went down. Now when I try to charge it don't work. It powers on by itself. Says connect charger. Shuts off. While later it powers on again and keeps repeating this every so often.
Also when it was on once, it opened calendar even with me not touching it. It would like open it and go to home screen by itself. This after a factory reset.
Now it won't charge. Just does the above turn on then off every so often.
I am clueless what's going on. I wonder if I must get another phone which cost $25. They send anything. All used crap non hd phones. Qlink is a lifeline program thing.
Install android n, of that doesn't entirely solve it, get an unofficial high capacity battery.
Found the original charger and cable. Now when I charge you see the big battery with dots under it when the phone is off. So that's good. Why don't you see this with other chargers?
Battery now seems to work and hold the charge. I don't get it.
I don't think the phone can update to any newer then what's on it now. It's 4.something. Nothing of 5.0 when you check for updates. I think the phone is too weak for 5 at good performance but I don't know.
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I don't think the phone can update to any newer then what's on it now. It's 4.something. Nothing of 5.0 when you check for updates. I think the phone is too weak for 5 at good performance but I don't know.
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I think he meant installing a custom ROM. There's currently one Cyanogenm... Lineage OS 14.1 for the Galaxy S2. It is based on Android 7.1. If you are curious, check out this link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=68771297
Nice to hear that your problem seems to be solved! I am a little bit surprised, as I often used different chargers without problems.
Why won't it hold the charge long?
With official cable and charger and batter it came with from lifeline program it looses full battery while powered off in like 3 days. And gone from 94% to 87% in less then 30 minutes.
What's going on?
Then one week it'll be fine.
Me too, i have the same problem too , and I'm charging my phone almost 4 times in a day