Redmi Note 4 (Mido) Battery Drain - Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Questions & Answers

No matter which ROM I flash, my phone's battery gets depleted over the night. I can't even see what's causing the drain as by morning the phone runs out of juice and gets switched off. The phone was running fine when I was using xiaomi.eu ROM. I recall flashing the latest firmware and an AOSP based ROM; since then the phone gets way too hot and battery drain ensues.
Right now I have ArrowOS (Android 11) flashed and face the same issues. I'm thinking about downgrading to the last stable firmware that's available here (https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/archive/firmware/mido/) in the hope that it would solve the problem.
Is this safe? Is there any way I can solve the battery drain issue? Please help me!
P.S. My phone has stock kernel that came with the phone out of the box.

Scarambay said:
No matter which ROM I flash, my phone's battery gets depleted over the night. I can't even see what's causing the drain as by morning the phone runs out of juice and gets switched off. The phone was running fine when I was using xiaomi.eu ROM. I recall flashing the latest firmware and an AOSP based ROM; since then the phone gets way too hot and battery drain ensues.
Right now I have ArrowOS (Android 11) flashed and face the same issues. I'm thinking about downgrading to the last stable firmware that's available here (https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/archive/firmware/mido/) in the hope that it would solve the problem.
Is this safe? Is there any way I can solve the battery drain issue? Please help me!
P.S. My phone has stock kernel that came with the phone out of the box.
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There really is no reason why this should happen on all custom ROMs.
So either your battery is dying or one of your apps is draining your battery

Scarambay said:
No matter which ROM I flash, my phone's battery gets depleted over the night. I can't even see what's causing the drain as by morning the phone runs out of juice and gets switched off. The phone was running fine when I was using xiaomi.eu ROM. I recall flashing the latest firmware and an AOSP based ROM; since then the phone gets way too hot and battery drain ensues.
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Try calibrating your phone's battery.
steps-
1. fully charge your phone keeping it switched off.
2. turn on phone and leave it on standby (DO NOT USE IT AT ALL)
3. after it switches off automatically, plug it in again (KEEP IT SWITCH OFF)
repeat this 2-3 times
Also, post your battery log
If this doesn't works, either your battery is faulty or its issue with motherboard

welladitya said:
Try calibrating your phone's battery.
steps-
1. fully charge your phone keeping it switched off.
2. turn on phone and leave it on standby (DO NOT USE IT AT ALL)
3. after it switches off automatically, plug it in again (KEEP IT SWITCH OFF)
repeat this 2-3 times
Also, post your battery log
If this doesn't works, either your battery is faulty or its issue with motherboard
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I used AccuBattery to check the health of the battery; it says almost 93% which seems unlikely because I used this phone for almost two years continuously. Surprising thing is I have a Redmi 1S as well which I bought six years ago. It keeps chugging along fine and doesn't have any battery drain issues. If it weren't for the 1 GB RAM and accompanying sluggish performance I would be still using that as my backup.
Anyway, I'm gonna do what you suggested and see if it works. How do I get the battery log?

In terms of battery life, Zeelog's Android 10 with Kernel 3.18 is the best choice, for example, I have about 1-2% loss in flight mode in 24 hours, inactive with WLAN about 3-6% in 24 hours.
Do a clean install.

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Battery Life

Been using the g tab since December and have always been impressed by its battery life. Only issue was the battery meter never seems to reflect the true battery level. I had times when it just shut off without warning with the battery meter at 100% while other times, it drained rapidly to 0% within 20 minutes.
I know the general fix is to delete battery stats with recovery (which i have been doing frequently) but that still doesn't quite solve the problem. As such, i decided to test the exact battery life of the tablet. I am quite shocked at just how good it is o.0.
I've had a (1hr 17 mins) video looping with wifi on and connected for exactly 9 hours now as i am typing this. The battery meter still reads 100% but i think it will turn off/drain rapidly soon.
I am on TNT Lite 3.1.4 btw (old but gold).
Update: Tablet just shut off after 10h and 56 minutes on video loop + wifi. Video was stored on tablet memory.
Issue: Battery meter never drained and was 100% till death (i plugged in and rebooted and it read 100%). I had just wiped battery stats before doing this experimental run. Any suggestions to deal with the battery meter issue?
I had a similar problem with another tablet after wiping the battery stats and still don't know if that was the issue or not. From my recollection, you were supposed to discharge the tablet completely and then delete the battery stats (or was it charge it completely?). Is it possible you deleted it in the wrong state, so it thinks an empty battery is full? I always wonder if I might find a similar fix for the other tablet or if the charging hardware simply failed (not a gTablet -- a flytouch2 type device).
wd5gnr said:
I had a similar problem with another tablet after wiping the battery stats and still don't know if that was the issue or not. From my recollection, you were supposed to discharge the tablet completely and then delete the battery stats (or was it charge it completely?). Is it possible you deleted it in the wrong state, so it thinks an empty battery is full? I always wonder if I might find a similar fix for the other tablet or if the charging hardware simply failed (not a gTablet -- a flytouch2 type device).
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From what I've read about calibrating the battery on other devices (specifically in the EVO forums), you're supposed to charge it until it's full, immediately wipe the battery stats, run it until it's dead without turning it off at any point, then charge it until it's full with the device off. Turn the device on and it should be properly calibrated. I'm not sure if this will fix your problem, but it's worth a try.
If that doesn't work, you could try flashing a different ROM and see if the problem persists (backup everything in clockworkmod first, so you don't lose anything if you want to go back to that ROM). If the problem goes away, it's probably an issue with TNT Lite 3.1.4. If the problem persists, it's probably an issue specific to your gTab.
Thanks guys. Ill give it a go.
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raphenucleus said:
From what I've read about calibrating the battery on other devices (specifically in the EVO forums), you're supposed to charge it until it's full, immediately wipe the battery stats, run it until it's dead without turning it off at any point, then charge it until it's full with the device off. Turn the device on and it should be properly calibrated. I'm not sure if this will fix your problem, but it's worth a try.
If that doesn't work, you could try flashing a different ROM and see if the problem persists (backup everything in clockworkmod first, so you don't lose anything if you want to go back to that ROM). If the problem goes away, it's probably an issue with TNT Lite 3.1.4. If the problem persists, it's probably an issue specific to your gTab.
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I've been having an issue where my battery show that it is discharging but then it abruptly shuts down when it hits ~50%. No warning of low battery voltage.
I'll try this calibration and report back with results.
Update...8 months on.
My G tablet is now running Flashback 10.3 (finally HC is stable enough).
Battery still does not reflect drain, stuck at 100% every time. (i've been told its a kernel issue)
On Flashback 10.3: Looping a youtube video (1hr 14 mins) with HD on, sound off, wifi on, brightness set to automatic in a dark room. Tablet died after 9hrs 21mins.
This is 1.5 hours shorter than the result i obtained when i looped a internal storage video, wifi on, brightness automatic, sound off 8 months back on TNT 3.1.4 (froyo).
I'm pretty impressed given the 3700mAh in our device (compared to most 5000mAh tablets). Anyone done any tests? Do share.

[Q] Instant Battery Drain

Is anyone else having issues with this phone loosing around 20% to 30 % after a restart. It doesn't happen everytime but sometimes when the phone is turned off and on the battery drops from, for example , 50% to 30%. I had this issue with official roms and unofficial roms.
Hi mali019, this happen to me as well, i'm not sure this is cause by the battery itself or the phone itself. My phone will auto restart when the battery usage is @ 4x percent. After itself restarting. The battery will drop to 33 percent every time. I'm swapping a battery with a fren of mine and started testing today. I'm using KG6 roms.
never had that problem...
Do you guys quit apps or just press the home button? Use the in-built task manager, it's good.
I don't use taskmanagers. Only use the one that comes with the phone. This problem happend on every rom i tried. From 2.3.3 to 2.3.4 . I'm gonna buy the new 2000mah and see if it happens again.
Just now i pulled out the battery without turning the phone off and battery percentage dropped from 41% to 22% . Currently I'm using KG6
mali019 said:
I don't use taskmanagers. Only use the one that comes with the phone. This problem happend on every rom i tried. From 2.3.3 to 2.3.4 . I'm gonna buy the new 2000mah and see if it happens again.
Just now i pulled out the battery without turning the phone off and battery percentage dropped from 41% to 22% . Currently I'm using KG6
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Isn't that what I've said?
Anyway, you can try installing Watchdog from Market to see if you have apps misbehaving and what is using you cpu.
dandroid13 said:
Isn't that what I've said?
Anyway, you can try installing Watchdog from Market to see if you have apps misbehaving and what is using you cpu.
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The problem is not an app using the battery. The problem is the phone loosing 20-30 % percent battery after a restart. The phone is not displaying the correct battery percentage.
I even had the battery percentage increasing after a restart without being pluged in to a power point. For example I'll restart the phone for any reason with a battery percentage off 50%. After the restart the battery percentage will show 23%. Sometimes the percentage will increase like its on charge. It will go up to 30%.
Never had this problem better get checked the battery in Samsung service center
Said that because it happened to me that if the phone gets hot, percentage drops. Later, it returns to a higher percentage.
I was experiencing the auto restart and instant battery drain issue while using ninphetamine 2.1.x
After changing to other kernel. No more auto restart nor instant battery drain issue.
You might need to a battery calibration.
I got a new battery ( Perks of working at a phone shop ) hopefully it will fix the issue
I also notice that it takes quit some% after each restart but not 20%. Actually the battery was good when I first got this phone. But after 175 apps installed, battery isn't good anymore.
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Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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Today I left my phone in my room and after an hour I wanted to check my emails before going to bed the screen did not turn on so even after a long press on the power button, so I removed the battery (it was ice cold) after replugging it booted and voila there was a huge drop 50 percent perhaps? So I said to myself, I think I left a resource intensive app running and forgot about it and went to bed without plugging the charger, 3 hours later I wake up thinking it would give me a critical or charge your phone dialog, but instead I have a battery that charges itself ...
Now in reality that would be cool but i think there is a problem. Using the ninphetamine 2.0.4 kernel for a few days for bln but it was disabled, stock rom.
I have attached two screenshots one taken right after and the other one 3 hours or so after.
I don't think that I would need a recalibration after a few charges the phone is not a week old.
Hi, I have this exact problem with cognition+ Siyah kernel, how can I fix it??
So I changed the kernel and everything seems ok now, my problem was with Siyah Kernel.
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yeah had this problem with Siyah Kernel too but shouldn't bother me anymore i'm back to CM7
Stock Galaxy S2 instant discharge
ScorpioGeek said:
Today I left my phone in my room and after an hour I wanted to check my emails before going to bed the screen did not turn on so even after a long press on the power button, so I removed the battery (it was ice cold) after replugging it booted and voila there was a huge drop 50 percent perhaps? So I said to myself, I think I left a resource intensive app running and forgot about it and went to bed without plugging the charger, 3 hours later I wake up thinking it would give me a critical or charge your phone dialog, but instead I have a battery that charges itself ...
Now in reality that would be cool but i think there is a problem. Using the ninphetamine 2.0.4 kernel for a few days for bln but it was disabled, stock rom.
I have attached two screenshots one taken right after and the other one 3 hours or so after.
I don't think that I would need a recalibration after a few charges the phone is not a week old.
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I experienced same problem - I was browsing, then phone restarts itself and the battery is instantly on 18% (from 50%).
And then started to recharge itself.
Stock 2.3.4 ROM (version XWKH4), running the same configuration for nearly two months now, with only few restarts (once in 20 days), no new app installed recently.
Maybe some glitch in internal electronic?
Same problem, just a bit more drastic. My phone seems to freeze, in which I have to manually restart it. And then I see the battery falls sharply. This is on stock Firmware (unrooted) too.

[Q] Battery Issue on Lollipop Roms

Hii everyone
I've got some really weird Battery Issues on different Lollipop Roms (CM12, ResurrectionRemix 5.3.5-5.3.7, Beanstalk and SlimLP).
The problem is, as soon as i restart the phone the battery percentage drops from 50% to 13% for no reason.
If i charge the phone later suddendly the loose percentage are back, but the phone consumption more "battery" so it's sooner at 0% as normal.
Does anybody else faceing this problem? Or whats the solution?
(Tried several times to calibrate the battery, and it's a new one ca. 6 months old)
Regards Kun1
KUN1 said:
Hii everyone
I've got some really weird Battery Issues on different Lollipop Roms (CM12, ResurrectionRemix 5.3.5-5.3.7, Beanstalk and SlimLP).
The problem is, as soon as i restart the phone the battery percentage drops from 50% to 13% for no reason.
If i charge the phone later suddendly the loose percentage are back, but the phone consumption more "battery" so it's sooner at 0% as normal.
Does anybody else faceing this problem? Or whats the solution?
(Tried several times to calibrate the battery, and it's a new one ca. 6 months old)
Regards Kun1
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I've had these problems when I first bought my phone used off eBay. Phone battery was very erratic. After a reboot battery would be less than half or nearly 0 even with 80%+ battery. Or would shut down with 5% left. Or drain battery a lot quicker than normal.
Soon as I bought a new battery my problems vanished. My battery would stay solid no matter how many times I flashed a new ROM or rebooted. BUT after 3 months these drops have started to happen again with reboots. Not always like before, but they're happening.
I think it's down to battery conditioning. The way you charge and discharge your battery. There are set ways to charge a phone to maintain battery health.
How does your battery react without rebooting from a full change to shut down? You shouldn't need to reboot a phone with a good stable ROM once you've set it up the way you like it. Also calibrating you battery or wiping your fuel gauge meter to often isn't good practice as android and your phone will do calibrating itself after some time and needs the information that these starts provide.
Battery jumps seem to happen with a lot of S2 users. Maybe a flaw in the design of phone. But good battery practices are important, things like not leaving your phone charging overnight. Batteries don't like being left on charge when they are full. There's more info out there on XDA that I can't remember myself as I am guilty of bad battery practices as I use my phone all the time and don't have time to full charge cycle.
Yes same problem
Battery drains really fast when restarting
Any fix for this?
I am hiving battery problems too. Battery is dropping % like it leaking or sth. Last time my phone rebooted due to full ram and it dropped from 50% to 12%. I left it like that. After some time battery re-charged itself from 12 to 23 % ! Phone was lying on the sofa without connected charger ! Should i clen fuel guage chip or my battery is EOL ?
Wysłane z Cyano-fonika 12 beta ...
RuffBuster said:
How does your battery react without rebooting from a full change to shut down? You shouldn't need to reboot a phone with a good stable ROM once you've set it up the way you like it. Also calibrating you battery or wiping your fuel gauge meter to often isn't good practice as android and your phone will do calibrating itself after some time and needs the information that these starts provide.
Battery jumps seem to happen with a lot of S2 users. Maybe a flaw in the design of phone. But good battery practices are important, things like not leaving your phone charging overnight. Batteries don't like being left on charge when they are full. There's more info out there on XDA that I can't remember myself as I am guilty of bad battery practices as I use my phone all the time and don't have time to full charge cycle.
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you have to reboot for example if you install xposed and new modules i've calibrated the battery just 3 times i think this isnt too much?
and i understand the problem with charging overnight but there's no other solution for me :/
I have the same problem of battery drain with SlimLP beta 5, here my screenshot: shoplc.altervista.org/gallery/
LpWeb said:
I have the same problem of battery drain with SlimLP beta 5, here my screenshot: shoplc.altervista.org/gallery/
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Which kernel do you use? and have you installed Xposed?
KUN1 said:
Which kernel do you use? and have you installed Xposed?
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Hi, I have the original kernel from ROM, Xposed do not have installed
LpWeb said:
Hi, I have the original kernel from ROM, Xposed do not have installed
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Because i have the same setting at the moment and no problem and tried with two diffrent batteries....
Also when i see your screenshots and don't see anything special or whats wrong with your battery.
Here is my battery...
KUN1 said:
Because i have the same setting at the moment and no problem and tried with two diffrent batteries....
Also when i see your screenshots and don't see anything special or whats wrong with your battery.
Here is my battery...
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Hello, your situation is much more serious than mine. I reinstalled the original ROM jelly beam 4.1.2 because I can not charge the smartphone every 5 hours.
LpWeb said:
Hello, your situation is much more serious than mine. I reinstalled the original ROM jelly beam 4.1.2 because I can not charge the smartphone every 5 hours.
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Did that help?
KUN1 said:
Did that help?
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...of course, now my battery lasts 15-18 hours
When it developed a ROM that overcomes these problems of battery life, I'll be happy to try it.
LpWeb said:
...of course, now my battery lasts 15-18 hours
When it developed a ROM that overcomes these problems of battery life, I'll be happy to try it.
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Which Rom do you use? and how much display time do you get within this 15-18hours?
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Which Rom do you use? and how much display time do you get within this 15-18hours?
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ROM Stock 4.1.2 build XWLSW.
2 hours display, 54 minutes call, 15 msg whatsapp, 30 msg telegram, 2 record videos 720p, 6 photo, 18 email and 30 minutes of twitter, this is a my typical day of use my phone.
ps: I may have missed something
Forgot to say, if you want to avoid battery drops when rebooting make sure you plug your phone into charge before rebooting. Thus should stop battery dropping afterwards.
RuffBuster said:
Forgot to say, if you want to avoid battery drops when rebooting make sure you plug your phone into charge before rebooting. Thus should stop battery dropping afterwards.
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The battery often drops when the phone hangs at work and reboot from itself so i have no chance to plug it in.
I have same problem, battery drain too fast & after reboot same time battery level is "falling" at one moment twice. At first, I think it's a battery problem, but battery work fine at CM12 mod, and have problem at SLIMLP 5.1.1 mod. When battery "falling" it's not heating, which means no real discharge.
Hello friends I just purchased a new battery this is 3.7V battery
But the old Samsung stock battery that comes with the phone is 4.2V is this ok or this is necessary to need battery is 4.2V im still useing jellybean stock os 4.1.2 but im a custom Rom Flashaholic please guide me should I need a same battery volt so I return it and find another I purchased it from amazon estore thanks for replying

Weird battery stats

Hi,
My phone battery is behaving abnormally since few days. The phone goes off at around 40% battery showing a low battery warning. It does not switch on unless I put it on charge and switch it on. After switching it on it shows random battery percentage like 23% or 71% etc. The battery is also discharging fast these days.
My OS is Miui 8.5.7.0 updated 2 or 3 weeks ago.
hayabusa_ryu said:
Hi,
My phone battery is behaving abnormally since few days. The phone goes off at around 40% battery showing a low battery warning. It does not switch on unless I put it on charge and switch it on. After switching it on it shows random battery percentage like 23% or 71% etc. The battery is also discharging fast these days.
My OS is Miui 8.5.7.0 updated 2 or 3 weeks ago.
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This could be due to faulty or a degraded battery
I have had also faced this problem on my previous devices and that was bcs of degraded battery over time
Can u tell me what's ur device age and also to make sure it's a faulty battery or something u should first take backup of everything and then clean Flash miui using Mi Flash tool
Thank you for replying. My phone is of 1 year old. I can bacup & clean flash but I have too many important things on my phone that I do not have time or I can't take risk of missing something. If I have no options then I can flash. The battery quality of Redmi is very poor, my nexus tab is running fine even after using it for 4 years and doing more recharge cycles.

Battery Problem 97% fully charged!

Hi to all Vince users,
my fully charged of my phone is 97% only! why??? I would unplug my charger and charge again to reach 100%.
Any idea? pls help.
thanks a lot!
I think you should go to the warranty center to fix this, I just repair and get a new battery
Have you installed any custom Rom?, this question is because sometimes when installing custom Roms this situation is common to happen. In some cases flashing a STOCK ROM with MIFLASH tool solves that issue.
Have you idle battery drain too?
It was after flashing custom roms?
This thread can help:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-5/help/wakelocks-aosp-roms-t3802422
i solve it with unplug then plug again cable battery connector
Yes bro. Im using AEX and Dotos before and now Im using MIUI 10.
Now Im Calibrating my Battery
Im doing that recently. 97percent charged
my phone is not faster to drain. my only problem is not reaching to 100 percent. it stops in 97. I think I need a battery calibration.. what do you think Guys?
As you used custom roms maybe the problem is the same although without battery drain.
Disconnect and reconnect battery will solve it but you have to take off back cover
I think bug oin miui 10.
It's not a bug in miui 10. I'm using it and it didn't happen for me since I opened back cover and unplug battery connector. I also did test point flash but others in the forum said it works with only physically disconnect battery without test point (back case opening required anyway)
Had this proplem too, not charge to 100% (in any rom, miui 10 included) but my problem was worst, the phone always shuts down at 20%. Did disconnect the battery 2 days ago, and the problem is solved now.

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