Battery Indicator + Battery Bar!! - MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General

I have installed the battery bar and the incator sometimes says 3 hours when fully charged, and sometimes 5 hours when fully charged!!! I know the XDA II battery gives about 5:15 hours of juice when completely charged.
Anyone knows what's going on??? :roll: :roll:
Thanks,
K

thePhoneGuy said:
I have installed the battery bar and the incator sometimes says 3 hours when fully charged, and sometimes 5 hours when fully charged!!! I know the XDA II battery gives about 5:15 hours of juice when completely charged.
Anyone knows what's going on??? :roll: :roll:
Thanks,
K
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Check back the help file!! It states that the time is very slowly adapted and not that good up to date.

Yeah, I just looked at it.
Thanks,
K

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Battery stuck @ 100%

Hello! I am in a need of a little help. I bought recently a 1800mah battery since my original 1620mah battery was dead. Shutted down whenever it reached 30%. Now the new battery works like a charm, I can use my PDA for much more hours than before. Except for one thing. The power status displays always 100% until the PDA shuts down for not having any charge left. Is there any kind of fix for this? already did 3 complete cycles of charging and discharging. Any help please?
Cheers!
AMGP said:
Hello! I am in a need of a little help. I bought recently a 1800mah battery since my original 1620mah battery was dead. Shutted down whenever it reached 30%. Now the new battery works like a charm, I can use my PDA for much more hours than before. Except for one thing. The power status displays always 100% until the PDA shuts down for not having any charge left. Is there any kind of fix for this? already did 3 complete cycles of charging and discharging. Any help please?
Cheers!
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Welcome to the forum
Please READ the Wiki, there is a section to re calibrate battery and it worked for me
Don´t forget to vote!
Hope it helped,

Battery life

Hello
Just got my blackstone, had it for a few days and i need to charge it every day, almost 2 times a day with moderate use. I turned off 3G, turned down the backlight. But still, if i just mess with it a little, in settings and so on, i can litteratly see the battery life getting lower. An hour ago it was 100%, now its on 83%. Any one who got some pointers on this?
Thanks.
I had a similar issue with mine, got it a couple of weeks ago with a stock Orange UK rom onboard.
Battery hasn't fully depleted, but I usually charge it everynight as it quick charges.
I've since put Dutty's 3.9XT Turbo rom on and battery life has been a lot better.
For example, charged overnight last night (from 59%) and am now at 90% after a few texts and emails. Normally I struggle to hold a 3G signal in my office so its alternating between G, 3G and H all the time, which also drains the battery, and have a push mail application running in the background.
I also charge it in the car in my cradle to and from work. Could probably get two days at a push if I needed to, but it would require charging in the car as well to do that.
Thanks. I flashed it with the energy rom, and the battery really sucks. What does actually the "H" mean, when that is in the status field? "E" is edge, G is 3g, but "H" is?
Try disabling 3g to see better battery life. I think my battry life is quite good without 3g. Running latest energy rom. H is hspda I think. Disable that also to check the affect on battery life.
Thanks. Ive done all that. 7 hours ago the battery was at 100%, now its at 15%. Ive texted 5 messages, and made 2 phonecalls. If i go into settings f.example, press a little, i can see the % gone down a few. Something must seriously be wrong.
bthelastman said:
Thanks. Ive done all that. 7 hours ago the battery was at 100%, now its at 15%. Ive texted 5 messages, and made 2 phonecalls. If i go into settings f.example, press a little, i can see the % gone down a few. Something must seriously be wrong.
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Yeah, somethings up with it. To compare I took mine off the charger 7 hours ago sent 4 emails, used gps 3 times, browsed several sites for a total of about 45 min., made two short calls and I'm down to 75%. Thats all on edge.
bthelastman said:
Thanks. Ive done all that. 7 hours ago the battery was at 100%, now its at 15%. Ive texted 5 messages, and made 2 phonecalls. If i go into settings f.example, press a little, i can see the % gone down a few. Something must seriously be wrong.
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Definitely sounds like a more serious issue.
I have 3G and HSDPA on all the time and still get through about 25% battery during most of the day, with a few texts, a call or two and some email/browsing etc.
I also make sure that I close any other applications that I've finished with to calm memory and processor usage down.
Thanks. Yes, it sounds like an issue. Wish i had you guys battery. I can litteratly see the % go down, if i go to settings, press something go back and so on. Bought a new 1350mah battery on ebay, hope that would do the trick. Its bugging me sooo much, breaking swet becouse of it, lol.
Did you also turn off bluetooth and wireless? I get three days out of mine without 3G.
Yeah, all that stuff is off. Only edge is on. The battery must be faulty, thats the only thing i can think of. Example, made a phonecall now for 5 minutes, it dropped 10% on the battery.
bthelastman said:
Yeah, all that stuff is off. Only edge is on. The battery must be faulty, thats the only thing i can think of. Example, made a phonecall now for 5 minutes, it dropped 10% on the battery.
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bthelastman,
Try these following steps to recalibrate your battery.
1) Turn off the phone.
2) Let it charge overnight and don't unplug it.
3) In the morning, use the phone till it is down to 10% (Don't go lower than this number).
4) Turn off the phone, and do a full-charge again.
Repeat these steps 2 ~ 3 times and see if the battery gets better. Sometimes, it is not that the battery is bad, but merely the calibration is a little off. Always try to charge your phone when it is turned off, it keeps the accuracy of the battery lasting much longer without having to do a full-discharge.
Let us know how this works out for you.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Thank you PoisonWolf, i will test this out. Thanks.
PoisonWolf said:
bthelastman,
Try these following steps to recalibrate your battery.
1) Turn off the phone.
2) Let it charge overnight and don't unplug it.
3) In the morning, use the phone till it is down to 10% (Don't go lower than this number).
4) Turn off the phone, and do a full-charge again.
Repeat these steps 2 ~ 3 times and see if the battery gets better. Sometimes, it is not that the battery is bad, but merely the calibration is a little off. Always try to charge your phone when it is turned off, it keeps the accuracy of the battery lasting much longer without having to do a full-discharge.
Let us know how this works out for you.
Cheers.
Cheers.
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PoisonWolf mate these techniques used to work on old battery but the new lithium batteries don't need these manual calibration process...
akash_nu said:
PoisonWolf mate these techniques used to work on old battery but the new lithium batteries don't need these manual calibration process...
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akash_nu,
I beg to disagree. What I am saying is, sometimes, the battery in itself can hold the right amount of charge, but the onboard motherboard thinks it is not holding the right amount of charge. The full-discharge helps correct this issue.
If you don't believe me, keep charging your TouchHD whenever it is at 80 ~ 90% for a couple of months and you'll notice a "drop" in how fast your battery drains.
Cheers.
I definitely agree with this.
My Touch HD kept dying after a couple of hours, even when charging it over night. So I turned my phone off and charged it over night with a wall charger (instead of USB) and then it lasted for 48 hours with the same usage.
I think the battery tells the phone it is fully charged even when it is not. So like you say, it just needs recalibrating.
Not sure why the post appeared twice, I only submitted once!
Hi,
The button to the top wright of the phone, to close apps, the screwdriver icon says 59%. I guess that means running 59% of its power of whatever?
Shouldnt it say like 0%, since no apps are running?
Thanks.
After eight months and having my battery give me 2 minutes of talktime on a four hour charge, Orange UK have replaced it for me FOC.
bthelastman said:
Hi,
The button to the top wright of the phone, to close apps, the screwdriver icon says 59%. I guess that means running 59% of its power of whatever?
Shouldnt it say like 0%, since no apps are running?
Thanks.
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That % shows the amount of free RAM your device has, not how much power it is consuming..
Not sure why you are having this problem, I use BB Connect all day at work and am on the phone for several hours, I don't have 3G in the US but notice if I have WiFI on it drains the battery fast.
Are you sure you don't have a program running that is always looking for the internet? You could try HD tweaks and turn off the internet all together and see if that helps.

Power info

Has anyone checked out the power information screen in settings, since upgrading to WM6.5?
Mine is now showing :
LAST FULL CHARGE
not applicable
and all other stats are showing zero's
oh yes, it seems to be a bug in 6.5.
After softreset everything change to "0"
again.
yep. same here...
mine too
mine too...
same here...
Yes it is BUG in WinMO 6.5 builds.
HTC got no answer for this too .
Thanks.
Hi
Had the same problem. However I let the battery run down to less than 10% then recharged to 100% overnight and it is now showing battery info, showing 60 hours standby and 1.5 hours usage at the moment.
Regards
Phil
PhilipL said:
Hi
Had the same problem. However I let the battery run down to less than 10% then recharged to 100% overnight and it is now showing battery info, showing 60 hours standby and 1.5 hours usage at the moment.
Regards
Phil
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It does work when you do a 100% charge. For me too... and shows the values updating too... But after using the device for few hours (some time half a day) it automatically reset to ZERO .
Thanks.
Hi
Working okay here still, currently showing 127 hours standby and 2.5 hours usage, of course it may just be a fluke and might stop working on the next charge, but for some reason it is working now.
Regards
Phil
Where do you see the detailed hours standby and usage data?
I only see percentage of full charge indicator in Settings/system/Power?
(which seems seems to be working as expected)
Topaz Pure/Tess 4.2/WM6.5
Thanks
KJL
Hi
You said
"Working okay here still, currently showing 127 hours standby and 2.5 hours usage, of course it may just be a fluke and might stop working on the next charge, but for some reason it is working now."
Kenn Lynch said:
Where do you see the detailed hours standby and usage data?
I only see percentage of full charge indicator in Settings/system/Power?
(which seems seems to be working as expected)
Topaz Pure/Tess 4.2/WM6.5
Thanks
KJL
Hi
You said
"Working okay here still, currently showing 127 hours standby and 2.5 hours usage, of course it may just be a fluke and might stop working on the next charge, but for some reason it is working now."
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If you go to the Settings/system/Power screen, there is an Information tab at the bottom of the screen.
It is on that screen where you will see your usage stats......or not as the case may be!!
ps.
As others have noticed, mine will show the stats for a short time......then revert back to zero's.

Something is wrong with my battery meter

this morning it was 100% and when i got home it was at 87% but after i did a soft reset it said 15% i did another resent and now its at 45%, i cant get it to read the batter correctly anymore?
charged for AROUND AN HOUR and how it says 100%
rsx19 said:
this morning it was 100% and when i got home it was at 87% but after i did a soft reset it said 15% i did another resent and now its at 45%, i cant get it to read the batter correctly anymore?
charged for AROUND AN HOUR and how it says 100%
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i am having the same problem after MR2. it was abt 56% after a soft reset(Phone was really slow kind of hanged) wend to 15% and another soft reset back to 54%. some bug i guess
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=682270
it seams that it is some bug but no one has found yet an solution..
come on guys, too focus on how bad the x2 is and forgot about the basic problems.. has anyone come to mind it might be the battery?? i had that problem too thinking i have overcharge the battery so when out and buy a new one now its all sweet.. and send the old one back SE they gave me a new one.
well hard to say but it is from the start-brand new battery and from the beginig..li-polymer battery are hard to overcharge-they can be charged even if they have 70% or 80% power still in it...but l have confirmed in Serbia several cases of battery issue-so are they all "overcharged"?
ive had at least a dozen mobile phones over the last decade and ive found with practically every one of them that if you do a reset or turn the phone off the battery meter will drop. this is nothing new and not specific to the X2 or even sony (ive had nokias and philips phones do it). i dont know if its because it takes extra grunt to restart the phone or it loses calibration or what. the battery meter guesses the percentage of power based on the voltage so its not an exact reading anyway. ive found that popping it on charge for a bit seems to sort it all out again.
anothadave said:
ive had at least a dozen mobile phones over the last decade and ive found with practically every one of them that if you do a reset or turn the phone off the battery meter will drop. this is nothing new and not specific to the X2 or even sony (ive had nokias and philips phones do it). i dont know if its because it takes extra grunt to restart the phone or it loses calibration or what. the battery meter guesses the percentage of power based on the voltage so its not an exact reading anyway. ive found that popping it on charge for a bit seems to sort it all out again.
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it never happens to any of my phones. I mean sure, it drops by about 5 percent but that's if I am updating on the phone.
kronos1 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=682270
it seams that it is some bug but no one has found yet an solution..
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not that it wont stop charging, its just the meter changes erratically with no reason, frim 90 to 4 back to like 50 just from a soft reset
but now how to stop charging?
when my phone is turn on and connected to a wall charger,then charger charge the battery to 100%..and that is that..but it still charging. when phone is off and connected on charger,then it charge to 98%..that is what it shows when i turn on the x2. l have tried battery calibration procedure and nothing..
I noticed this happened on MR1 when removing and replacing the battery (as we all needed to do soooo many times ). Something must be happening with the contacts. I just made sure they were clean and reinserted my battery and haven't had a problem since.
has anyone noticed that when you charge the battery
when the phone is switched off, that the battery does not stop charging? the big battery icon keeps going up an down even if you leave it charging all night? the icon is still showing charge..
**Charging Info**
Information from [email protected] back in February
'The Initial Charge should last about 4-6 hours or untill fully charge and should be recharged when possible'
BRAIN_STEW said:
Information from [email protected] back in February
'The Initial Charge should last about 4-6 hours or untill fully charge and should be recharged when possible'
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that is not an answer, i've had my phone ever since january... after 3 firmware updates it's still the same
BRAIN_STEW said:
Information from [email protected] back in February
'The Initial Charge should last about 4-6 hours or untill fully charge and should be recharged when possible'
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and this does what, i charged over night and i did a soft reset and my battery went down to 64% and another soft reset made it go up to 99%, what the heck
mathiosn said:
has anyone noticed that when you charge the battery
when the phone is switched off, that the battery does not stop charging? the big battery icon keeps going up an down even if you leave it charging all night? the icon is still showing charge..
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That is now 4th confirmed..this is exactly what is happening
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That is now 4th confirmed..this is exactly what is happening
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i can confirm that too.
My previouse post is a guidline for charging.
With Li-Po's if you over charge them they discharge, this is a well know fact for RC cars/planes that run Li-Po's which is why they have charges with so many settings to get optimal performance and warnings and cut off when fully charged if the cut off/discharge does not take place it makes the Li-Moss (dendrites) unstable, when they get long enough they can short out the battery and cue explosion
When on charge for a long period have you noticed that the battery gets rather hot, and after 30/40 mins it is cool again?? this is because it has been over charged and is discharging to stop it from exploding. it also explains why even tho its been on charged all night its only at %60 odd because the discharge has taken place.
and i have just been told by a work friend that HP are doing a re-call because of the above.
BRAIN_STEW said:
My previouse post is a guidline for charging.
With Li-Po's if you over charge them they discharge, this is a well know fact for RC cars/planes that run Li-Po's which is why they have charges with so many settings to get optimal performance and warnings and cut off when fully charged if the cut off/discharge does not take place it makes the Li-Moss (dendrites) unstable, when they get long enough they can short out the battery and cue explosion
When on charge for a long period have you noticed that the battery gets rather hot, and after 30/40 mins it is cool again?? this is because it has been over charged and is discharging to stop it from exploding. it also explains why even tho its been on charged all night its only at %60 odd because the discharge has taken place.
and i have just been told by a work friend that HP are doing a re-call because of the above.
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All this you provide is ok,but problem was from the start-brand new phones were bought and from start this happens..so SE sold us defect battery? Funny, but there is no point to talk about over heat and overcharge when simple..battery icon large one when phone is off do not stop or go off display few people tried 9-12h and it still is there. Battery is no hot..it is hot after 2h-little hot..after that phone is cold. l believe that something is wrong with registry keys for charge time..l am not a programmer or developer but l dont think that we all fu*** up our batteries ..this is not a first phone to us..so we are not amateurs in usage of battery charge.
i dont understand.. why would you turn off the phone to charge it? it does appear there is still an error but this isnt necessary and wont charge the phone any faster or more efficiently.
anothadave said:
i dont understand.. why would you turn off the phone to charge it? it does appear there is still an error but this isnt necessary and wont charge the phone any faster or more efficiently.
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Some times l do not want to be disturbed and if battery is low l turn off the phone...and plug it to charge... obviously there are no body who thinks that this bug is annoying.
This is my first device with such a bug,and because l deal with mobiles(l had over 100 devices and use them form last 10 years) never cross to such a issue..and nobody know how to solve this bug.

charging problem!

it charge wirh fast charge to 84 in 1hr then it take for each 1% more than 10 minute and reach 90% then stop enven they still charge .
what the problem plz
note 4 sixperiance rom v2
n910h
thanks for help
bigheart90 said:
it charge wirh fast charge to 84 in 1hr then it take for each 1% more than 10 minute and reach 90% then stop enven they still charge .
what the problem plz
note 4 sixperiance rom v2
n910h
thanks for help
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First try calibrating your battery by fully draining it to zero...take it out ...then put it back it and turn it on till the phone does not turn on at all...then charge it back fully see if it charges up to 100%. If not then your battery is failing and u need a new battery
dork997 said:
First try calibrating your battery by fully draining it to zero...take it out ...then put it back it and turn it on till the phone does not turn on at all...then charge it back fully see if it charges up to 100%. If not then your battery is failing and u need a new battery
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am do that but still charge as i mentioned but it not drain fast and good.
room issue?

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