Guys, I have tried to calibrate battery by trying this methods
1.Charge your phone up to 100%
2.Use Es Explorer go to /data/system and find batterystat.bin. Delete it.
3.then use phone till it comes up to 10% then turn it off then charge till its full.
After calibration, I found that battery percentage of '98%' has disappeared.
Meaning, from 99%, it is dropped to 97% straight away without showing 98% at all.
Any idea on this? Should I recalibrate the battery? If so, any other methods?
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Hi all,
I once asked why the battery life on my Hero was kinda bad (< 1 day with a full charge), and I did as was described in this post. I downloaded the Battery Calibration App, charged to 100% and pressed "calibrate battery", let it drain the next day , waited for phone to self-shutdown. Then I plugged it into the wall-charger. After a few minutes I switched the phone on again (while still connected to the charger), and immediately after it booted it said it had a battery percentage of 40%. Let it charge to 100%, and immediately when I started using the phone, the percents started to wear down again very quickly (>10% in an hour). Next day I booted into recovery and wiped cache and dalvik cache and battery stats, but battery life still goes down pretty fast. Did something go wrong here? If so, what should I do to prolong the battery life?
When I go to settings -> about phone -> battery, the 2 things I see at the top most of the times are visualizing/screen or wifi. A typical day for phone use for me looks like playing a little game, browsing, using tweetdeck etc at times when I'm bored or texting, so I use it a fair amount of time each day. I just installed JuiceDefender, gonna see that that'll bring me.
I run Elelinux 7.1.0 latest version.
greets,
Danny
i have not used the app yet, but i advice you unistall the app and using root explorer go to the /data/system/ and delete the batterystats.bin file and restart the phone and let it drain down completely and recharge and you should be fine
Hi,
The battery voltage (located in: CM7 spare parts >battery information) on my galaxy sii is reading between 3646 and 3648. First, I'm not sure if that is low, or if it is necessarily good or bad. I just can't seem to find an answer for this anywhere on the Internet, so I made started this thread.
Second, I was wondering what everyone else's battery voltage reading was on their galaxy s2.
Oh, and I also just did a battery calibration. ... If you didn't watch the video, Then I'll fill you in. I wiped my battery stats through recovery mode, then I let my phone drain its battery. BUT, in the process, my phone crashed (the screen froze) at around 1-5%. So I left it overnight and it eventually died. Then I plugged it in and left it till it fully charged to 100%. SO i was wondering if that could have messed up my battery voltage (the crash)?
Sorry if this was hard to understand... But I hope someone out there can help me with battery voltages! ><
J
Never drain battery to zero. Read plenty of users with different phones and ROM having issues in the past after draining to zero.
Should be approx 4200mV at 100% (approx 3500mV at zero).
1. I just drain to 1-2% (>3510mV) to be safe.
2. Charge uninterrupted to 100% and mA stops actual charging at approx 4200mV. As you will see, battery continues to charge for a time (mV increases) after 100% is reached.
3. Immediately delete battery stats. I use app Battery Monitor Widget to monitor current mA & delete without restarting, give SU permission (phone uses power to boot into CWM, and therefore not accurate at time of delete with this method).
4. Immediately unplug.
Done.
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i hv bnattery problem for 3-4 month
still cannot solve the battery problem
i think i have done some wrong steps in the battery calibration
when my battery is fully charged in a battery changer(charger for battery only)
when i put the battery into the phone, it's shows that there is about 30% of battery
when i further use the battery, the battery level rise (without charging!) to 100 then drop to 0 and turn off
the time that the phone can use from 100% to 0% is quite short
when every time after charging, the battery level is 100%
it won't charge to the "real" full battery level, ie ~30% (SORRY FOR MY POOR ENGLISH)
how should i calibrate?
i used the battery calibration app, but no use.
Charge to 100 then use battery calibrator from market very simple
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If your recovery is ClockWorkMod, then there is an option to "Clear Battery Stats". Just try to see whether it helps.
~Cheers
It's a few days late, but battery calibration is unnecessary on modern batteries (Lithium). All the apps do is delete a small file that records power usage, they do not affect battery life in any way. This file is cleared automatically (by the system) when the phone is fully charged.
Further, full charge/discharge cycles will actually have a net harmful effect on your battery life. A lithium ion battery has a limited number of charge/discharge cycles it can sustain before becoming more effective at being a paperweight than powering anything. The full cycles you are doing simply eat into the battery's overall life expectancy.
For instance, it is better to charge from 50% to 100% multiple times than it is to go from 0 to 100 once.
Personally, I would just replace the battery.
I would suggest u to calibrate the battery in the clockworkmod recovery too
if this wont has any effect take into consideration that your battery might be damaged
i faced this problem one year ago with a galaxy spica the battery was shown as full and after a restart it was almost empty and calibrating the battery did not had any effect
so have a try and report afterwards
If, after rooting or more likely that case after flashing a new rom, you often have battery reporting errors (as mentioned above), and re-calibrating the battery along with some steps I will outline for you below will ensure that your battery is getting a full charge, and the battery reporting accuracy is right on. I run my device in performance mode all the time, and with a CPU overclock of 1.25GHz and various tweaks, I have about a day an a half to a day and a quarter of full runtime from my battery. This is with moderate to heavy usage (calls, emailing, text, gaming, web browsing, etc.) so you should have no problems getting acceptable battery performance after following these steps:
1. Take the case off your device (one of the latter steps involves taking the battery out from the phone while it's plugged in. Make sure your case won't stand in the way.)
2. Install Battery Calibration app from the market
3. Plug in your device to charge while it's on, wait till it gets to a 100%
4. When the charge is 100%, open the BatteryCalibration app and lookup what the charge is in MV while at 100%. Write it down.
My Atrix 2 was showing ~3400MV while at 100%, which is definitely not the maximum capacity.
5. Discharge your device completely until it shuts off.
A good way of doing this quickly is by turning on wifi, and a video player.
6. Without turning on the phone plug it into a wall charger and let it get to 100%
7. When it's at 100%, without unplugging it from the wall charger, take off the battery cover, and take the battery out.
Your phone will "reboot" and show a Missing Battery icon.
8. Without unplugging the phone from the wall charger or turning it on, put the battery back in and wait until the phone recognizes the battery.
9. Your battery should now be recognized by the phone, and showing a charge % significantly lower than 100%.
Mine showed only 5%.
10. Let it sit there charging for 2-3 hours (or more).
My phone wouldn't charge past 10%, but yours might. The numbers don't matter much as the phone is definitely getting additional charge that could have been lost while flashing ROMs, etc.
11. After 2-3 hours (or more), turn the phone on while holding the volume down button and get into CWM.
Do not disconnect it from the charger still!
12. Wipe battery stats in CWM, reboot.
Do not disconnect it from the charger still!
13. When the phone turns on, go into Battery Calibration app again and look up your MV numbers -if you were like me, they should be significantly higher than before. After this whole process I had 4351MV at 100%, comparing to 3400MV before calibration.
Do not disconnect it from the charger still!
14. Before going to sleep - Install Watchdog Task Manager Lite from the market. Go into it's preferences, set CPU threshhold to 20%, check "Include phone processes", check "Monitor phone processes", check "Display all phone processes", set system CPU threshhold to 20% as well.
Do not disconnect it from the charger still!
15. Make sure your wifi and data connections are off. Now finally unplug the phone from the charger.
Go to bed, let your phone sleep too.
16. Success! Next morning check where your battery % is at and if you followed the instructions correctly / got lucky like me, your battery life should be 90% or more.
I went to bed with 98% and woke up to 94%. So, I consider this mission a success.
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I recently had my Thunderbolt replaced with a refurb from Verizon. When I got the new phone I removed my old battery, which was working fine, from my old phone and placed it in my new phone. Now in the new phone I fully charge the battery and I get about 45 minutes to an hour of battery life before my phone is down to 2% battery life. However, the phone then has the same battery life as it did in my old phone, it just still says there is only 2% battery life left.
I'd tried completely killing the battery then recharging fully for about a week. The battery stats never reset.
I then rooted my phone, charged it completely and purged the battery stats. The issue persists.
Sounds like an aftermarket, non-oem battery...is it?
If it isn't a stock oem battery and especially if running ICS, it will not read correctly.
It may charge and discharge properly, but may never read accurately.
If it is an oem battery, then you got me.
Well i did this thing on my cousin's Htc Amaze a long time ago
i used die hard battrey calibirator to calibrate the battery. the phone was showing 2 percent supposed to be 170 percent so i pressed calibrate button and it worked for about a week until the battery had the same error
try doing that it might do something... or nothing at all but worth a try
santod040 said:
Sounds like an aftermarket, non-oem battery...is it?
If it isn't a stock oem battery and especially if running ICS, it will not read correctly.
It may charge and discharge properly, but may never read accurately.
If it is an oem battery, then you got me.
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Nope, it's the original battery I received with the phone. I'd understand if it were just time for a replacement but the fact that it stays awake at 2% for so long leads me to believe it's not actually an issue with the battery.
If you calibrate the battery incorrectly it can make the phone display the wrong amount. I did this before using die hard battery calibrator. To manually recalibrate. Discharge the phone totally and then charge it until the green light comes on. Boot into recovery and then wipe battery stats in recovery. That might help you out but I somehow doubt itm
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I tried using a battery calibration app and haven't seen any change.
I also looked for my batterystats.bin file in /data/system to manually delete using a file explorer but I didn't see it there. Does anyone know why that may be or if that could contribute to the issue?
I also looked for my batterystats.bin file in /data/system to manually delete using a file explorer but I didn't see it there. Does anyone know why that may be or if that could contribute to the issue?
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Disregard that, turns out I didn't have ES File Explorer with root permission.
Li-on batteries don't actually perform the way many people think they do. They do not discharge in a linear fashion. That's what makes metering them on the phone so complicated. As the battery ages it's non-linear output changes as well, and that's what the statistics are designed to correct for when displaying a charge level.
Here's how you know your battery is a dud.
Pay attention to the voltage. As a Li-on battery discharges it discharges in a very flat way. The battery is fully charged when the voltage curve of the battery begins to ramp up sharply. The battery is technically dead when the voltage begins to drop off sharply. What ultimately renders a Li-on battery garbage is when that fat flat spot in it's voltage/charge curve drops below a threshold that will power the device. If the battery is displaying adequate voltage for a reasonable length of time and the phone still reads inaccurate, then it's the fault of the phone.
My battery was 9% I turned my phone off and on instantly and it was 48% ! Can anybody tell me whats going on and how to fix ?? I heard of something called reset battery stats , will that help ?? If yes how to do it ??
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My battery was 9% I turned my phone off and on instantly and it was 48% ! Can anybody tell me whats going on and how to fix ?? I heard of something called reset battery stats , will that help ?? If yes how to do it ??
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I also have this type of problem when my phone completely runs out of battery and when plug it in charger it bump to 48%.
I dont the reason behind it that why it happen and whats the reason behind it.
If you have recently rooted your phone and have flashed custom rom in your phone than you may face problem of mis-calibration of battery. For solving this download a software called battery calibration apk ( google it ) . Your phone must be rooted if you wana use that app. but before you calibrate your battery make sure you charge your phone to 100%.
when you 100% open that app and grant the super user permission. Click on calibrate.
what the app does is that it will remove batterystat file from our phone and automatically it generate a new batterystat file in your phon. Thus any faulty or mis-calibrated file will be removed and you will get good battery life.
after calibrating do some cycle charge mean from 100% to 0% and from 0% to 100% without interuption. Do it for 3-4 times and you will see a drastic change in your battery life.
Calibration of batteries is a myth, battery stats is cleared every time you unplug a nearly fully charged device. Also draining modern batteries to dead is not good for them at all so I'd discourage it unless necessary.