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Hi...
I've the following problem:
Sometimes my mini gets all mixed up on battery life. Maybe after an allnight charge when I unplug it from the cable it will say 0% battery. After a soft reset everything will go back to normal. Sometimes it will show the battery at 67% for example and then a second after at 0% and the backup charging. Very strange behaviour.
I have spb 3.0 and that also shows me the battery "strangeness".
Anybody have an answer to this?
Thanks
Chebas
Chebas said:
Sometimes my mini gets all mixed up on battery life. Maybe after an allnight charge when I unplug it from the cable it will say 0% battery. After a soft reset everything will go back to normal. Sometimes it will show the battery at 67% for example and then a second after at 0% and the backup charging. Very strange behaviour.
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That souns very much like some kind of hardware problem. As far as I know the electronic circuits that check and measure the battery cells are included on the battery itself nowadays. You should open the battery bay, take out the battery and see if the contacts on the side of the battery need some attention. If they look dirty scrape them clean with a needle or small knife or something like this. Also, check if the contacts on the XDA-side are in good condition. The rest on springs and llow for some movement, check if they all move freely of if one is stuck or something.
I think this could solve your problem...
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That souns very much like some kind of hardware problem. As far as I know the electronic circuits that check and measure the battery cells are included on the battery itself nowadays. You should open the battery bay, take out the battery and see if the contacts on the side of the battery need some attention. If they look dirty scrape them clean with a needle or small knife or something like this. Also, check if the contacts on the XDA-side are in good condition. The rest on springs and llow for some movement, check if they all move freely of if one is stuck or something.
I think this could solve your problem...
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I just noticed that some characters are missing in my above posting. I have to admit that the keyboard on this laptop sucks the big ones. If someone is offended or confused by the mistakes produced here are some replacement characters to insert at your discretion: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.
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I checked the battery pack and there wasn't anything weird or that shouldn't be there. What I find is that you can see the battery app that is in the settings menu and you can see the indicator change from 100% to 0 in a few seconds and back. It gets worse with an SD card, when I remove my sd card and soft reset it works better.
Any thoughs?
Thanks
sounds like a hardware issue or battery problem.
(1) Do a full backup of your device (use something like Sprite Backup)
(2) Do a hard reset of your device
(3) Install only SPB Plus to check battery indicator
(4) See if you get the same battery issue
If so, battery could be failing or is an hardware issue. Next step would be to get your hands on a new battery and see if the same thing happens.
Hi
Battery problem, keeps draining quickly, just by leaving it anywhere. I charge the htc hd2, after not much use... the battery looses charge? I have s2u2 installed any ideas why this would be?
In other words, battery is on 100%. I open it using s2u2 and close it, just random play aroung with the phone. Next minute you know the battery is going lower and lower in matter of minutes. Thats with no phone calls, few text, no music, no games played i think your getting the gist?
This is wierd? anyone else experience this?
Please can some help and advice in the right direction.
thanks.
Fame123 said:
Hi
Battery problem, keeps draining quickly, just by leaving it anywhere. I charge the htc hd2, after not much use... the battery looses charge? I have s2u2 installed any ideas why this would be?
In other words, battery is on 100%. I open it using s2u2 and close it, just random play aroung with the phone. Next minute you know the battery is going lower and lower in matter of minutes. Thats with no phone calls, few text, no music, no games played i think your getting the gist?
This is wierd? anyone else experience this?
Please can some help and advice in the right direction.u
thanks.
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Try a search as there is a ton of stuff about how to treat the battery in order to get the most out of it.
hi pa49
I have looked at soo many post on xda, but i cannot get to to the bottom of it?
1. Is there any post you might note of, that could possibly put me in to the right direction?
2. also any place you can get extended battery (not the big fat one lol)
Fame123 said:
Hi
Battery problem, keeps draining quickly, just by leaving it anywhere. I charge the htc hd2, after not much use... the battery looses charge? I have s2u2 installed any ideas why this would be?
In other words, battery is on 100%. I open it using s2u2 and close it, just random play aroung with the phone. Next minute you know the battery is going lower and lower in matter of minutes. Thats with no phone calls, few text, no music, no games played i think your getting the gist?
This is wierd? anyone else experience this?
Please can some help and advice in the right direction.
thanks.
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you may want to install battclock and check what0s your cpu usage, also disable s2u2, check differences, and whatnot... the only way you can find if it's a software problem or not is by checking with a clean rom.
Usual old boring advice, backup and hard reset, test with nothing installed, if there is the same problem of very high drainage, it's basically a good chance you need to send it back for warranty
I have exactly the same problem. Suddenly yesterday my phone's battery drained and I found my phone switched off, out of nowhere. I charged it for 3-4 hours, and then played some games, the battery was left at 85% and when I woke up today, after 6 hours, it was off again.
So you are suggesting to perform a hard reset and observe the way the battery drains?
Ok, First get the battery working at max capacity by charging it non stop for at least 2 weeks. Whenever you can and wherever you can for as long as you can.
Once you have done that there is a battery monitoring capability built into the charging circuits. You could then allow your battery to drain to cuttoff and then recharge to full again which will accurise the power remaing readout. I never bother with this step as I just use the phone and then recharge as soon as I can again, but, if it's important to you then go ahead, but, don't continually allow the cutoff point to be reached as this will damage the battery.
Now you have maximised the capacity of the battery see how it performs and assess whether you need to take further action.
Installing apps to mem card will eat battery.
Some say leaving apps open will drain the battery. I'm not too sure, but, it's good practice to close them any way.
Finding a clean and pared down cooked ROM will save a lot of power, but, you will have to do your own experimenting there.
After that you could invest in a spare/extended battery, however, I would suggest an external rechargable power pack (Have a look at the juice bar solar pack as it will recharge itself without needing a power socket or USB port (although you can use them!), purely by sunlight. Another advantage is that if you change your phone you still can use the pack with your next device and they will also charge many other devices!
Good luck!
I have my new hd2 leo, and battery seemed to be the main issue for me cause it couldn hold 1working day... but as everybody told its nessesery to charge 1 week to exercise battery for its full potential.. but i did some improvements, did the registry thing with dissablepowersavings dont remmember where found that, and instaled wmpowersaving, for control of 3g 2g data, using 2.12 radio rom, witch is more stable than 2.08 cause i use hd2 for a lot of browsing, and 2.08 was freezing my device.. 2.12 is stable and seems using much less power, i can feel less heat in the back of the case.. tried android... but that was not intterested me... i dont need those 1000ds of apps i need to browse the internet using iris browser.. and now battery easily can hold 2 days with some wifi 3g browsing.. and few phone calls some usage of camera.. witch is poor in dark conditions... so i think battery life is 2days ... and control the 2g 3g networks, turn off location service, turn off data connection.. and the battery for today evening is still 72% after 10 hrs of few phonecalls and a bit browsing with wifi.. some gps navigation i dont even think to buy expanded batery cause i dont like the BACK BIG CASE ... Also i wonder how much power is nessesary to run Micro SD built in card reader... because its a pitty to have 180mb internal memory for progams... if it had 2gb then u install everything in the memory and dont use the sd card reader witch i suppose will save couple of hours of battery.
this issue has been well documented..imo the stock rom battery life is awful lasts up to 24hour on casual use for me..there are cooked roms with better battery life or you could invest in a bigger capacity battery from htc or third party ones on ebay
There is a known issue with the HD2 and microsd cards, when the microsd's filesystem becomes corrupted, causing battery drain.
reijkelhof said:
There is a known issue with the HD2 and microsd cards, when the microsd's filesystem becomes corrupted, causing battery drain.
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I just popped out my sd card to see if it is going to see how my battery does.
I will post my conclusion tomorrow.
Jeff
innovator8 said:
I just popped out my sd card to see if it is going to see how my battery does.
I will post my conclusion tomorrow.
Jeff
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Jeff wake up
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Jeff? Jeeeeeefffff!!!!
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Oops,
Sorry, I did not really notice any difference with the card out. I am currently trying it again just to be sure.
Jeff
innovator8 said:
Oops,
Sorry, I did not really notice any difference with the card out. I am currently trying it again just to be sure.
Jeff
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Ok, so I did a quick test, I turned off the radio just to take that out of the equation.
I ran for two hours, first hour with SD card out and then an hour with it in.
From the log, you see that I am about 6 to 7 mA up until 0945 and then it started to cycle, I dont know why, the phone was in standby the whole time.
I put the SD card back in at 1016 and opened explorer just to access it once.
the cycling continued for like 30 min then settled back down to 6 to 9mA.
So, it looks like the currnt is a few mA higher with the SD card in, but I have no idea why the phone was sucking over 150mA in those four to five reading bursts when I was not using the phone.
What do you think?
Jeff
I have recently found that in the past couple of days, if I charge my battery to full it will lose charge, and reset itself, exceptionally quickly.
I can have a full charge one minute, my girlfriend can call for ten minutes, and then the battery will die; when I turn my phone back on, instantly, the light will flash and the 'battery low' symbol will appear in the right hand corner of the screen; the strange thing is, when I leave the phone for ten minutes, or more, the phone will suddenly come back to life again, and start working as usual; as you can imagine, quite an annoying situation, especially when your girlfriend thinks you are constantly hanging up on her........hahaha
I have taken steps, and ordered a new battery, but I'm unsure if this is the issue, or whether or not it is the original orange rom that is the problem. It'd be of much help if someone can inform me on this issue, whether they have experienced it before, or, if they can give me any steps to change this..it'd be much appreciated.
HTC TOUCH 3G:
ROM VERSION: BUILD 20765.1.4.4
EXTERNAL STORAGE:
8GB SD CARD
INTERNAL STORAGE:
38.97MB LEFT
62.99MB OF MEMORY LEFT
I've also removed the plastic casing surrounding the phone, just incase the phone is overheating.
studentpaps said:
I have recently found that in the past couple of days, if I charge my battery to full it will lose charge, and reset itself, exceptionally quickly.
I can have a full charge one minute, my girlfriend can call for ten minutes, and then the battery will die; when I turn my phone back on, instantly, the light will flash and the 'battery low' symbol will appear in the right hand corner of the screen; the strange thing is, when I leave the phone for ten minutes, or more, the phone will suddenly come back to life again, and start working as usual; as you can imagine, quite an annoying situation, especially when your girlfriend thinks you are constantly hanging up on her........hahaha
I have taken steps, and ordered a new battery, but I'm unsure if this is the issue, or whether or not it is the original orange rom that is the problem. It'd be of much help if someone can inform me on this issue, whether they have experienced it before, or, if they can give me any steps to change this..it'd be much appreciated.
HTC TOUCH 3G:
ROM VERSION: BUILD 20765.1.4.4
EXTERNAL STORAGE:
8GB SD CARD
INTERNAL STORAGE:
38.97MB LEFT
62.99MB OF MEMORY LEFT
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hi
1. how old is ur phone may be its more than a yr old and its time for a new battery mine is around 2yrs and the battery is draining fast but then i gave it to my wife whos usage is not much and its ok for her
battery life is something u cant really comment on some get great life some get not all that good life mine was quite good for all the usage and flashing i did
but im sure ur new battery will give u better battery life i dont thing theirs any thing wrong with ur phone this as per my experience thats all
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The problem that I have is that it only occurs when I'm on the phone; the phone conversation will last between 2-5 mins and then just cut off and reset; the phone works perfectly fine when I'm doing any other task- I can stream programmes on myplayer, etc. So, all I can do is wait for my new battery and hope it's a battery fault.
I bought the phone second hand, so the battery and the phone maybe more than a year old, so I just have to wait and see. It just seems a bit random, especially since the phone was working perfectly about a week ago. It seems like something has affected the battery, or something that won't allow me to make or accept any incoming phone calls.
Oh, and thank you Haree for your reply.
Regards,
Nick
Hello i got an unidentified issue with my Touch after reassembling it.
I bought a White Cover for my Touch and everything worked fine on disassemble and reassemble it. But now i got this crazy issue with my batterylife. It is not normal, the life is so shorten up to some hours without doing anything.
When the mobile phone is just idling the battery life is after 2 hours from 100% to 60% down and after 6 hours my battery is empty. I don't understand why this happen.
Could i do anything wrong on the assemble? The other thing is, that my camera stops also working after this reassemble. I can start the program but nothing happen. Tried many reboots and also formating system and installing it again.
Camera is still not working and something eats my battery
Does anyone have ideas? Thanks in advance.
Greets
tom
When you try to start the program, does anything happen? Does it launch the program and display a black screen as if the lens was blocked, or the camera chip is not plugged into the main board? It may have become disconnected during the case swap.
As to the battery, it could be linked, it may not - I don't know I wonder if something could be shorting internally afterwards, but I wouldn't be too sure!
How old is the battery as well - it may well just be coincidence that it has come when you changed the case (although I doubt it!)
When i try to launch the program nothing happens. It doesn't show anything just idle, like i would have never clicked to open it.
I will check today again the camera at the mainboard, when i will arrive at home after work. Maybe it is this problem, that camera tries to connect and can't and eats my batterylife.
The battery is about 2 1/2 years old but worked fine before i changed the cover my phone was many days on before it gone empty. It's just curious
Now i need always the charger for my phone every some hours
Damn, i tried reassembling it again but it didn't solve my issue. My Battery is still shorten empty and camera is also not working after reseating it.
Hey stu any other ideas? I have to recharge my phone 4-6 times a day, this sucks really.
Do you think it could be caused by the cover? That maybe a piece of metal is sucking my battery out?
Recharging of my battery is also low now, it need soooo long. Please need help.
I really am still tempted to say the battery is dead.
it could be worth installing HomeScreen++ (UI) so you can see how much charge is being drained, and also how much goes in when charging.
it may be possible, on a long shot, that the battery is not passing enough power to boot the camera - who knows.
Is your battery slightly buldging as well? This is something I have noticed at my work that happens when batteries are coming to end of life - they also tend to be rather erratic and do not maintain a charge or take a charge (these are 4400mah batteries that cost £100 as well :/)
Have you read the thread in rom development as well about battery conditioning? That may help, anything is possible, right?
I took my devices apart yesterday to see if I could find something that may be shorting - but I was unsuccessful
So okey i have downloaded this HomeScreen UI and my Battery is draining 326mA/1305mW and Device is 36°C or 97°F hot. Is this okey? How much should it be?
At charging my Battery it shows +265mA/1008mW.
Battery is not bulging its ok like always.
Maybe i should buy new better battery on ebay?
Greets
tom
Sweet jesus, my batery drain is 79mA/331mW
Something is causing some massive battery drain - What apps are you running/installed?
Stu i have normal installed programs of my ROM Onyx Ultimate 4.1.6. But it can't be any program installed, i did a hardreset and it was before the reset too like that.
It happens after i changed my Cover to White with everything except the digitizer, Speaker and LCD display them were okey.
Could this issue be caused of my Speaker? On putting it out from old Cover i broke it a little bit with a screw driver i push it to get it out and now the sound is weird the bass is warped. I ordered a new one, it still works but ****ty.
But who knows, if its not this Speaker drain so much, but why it should I am so helpless
Be interesting to see what happens with the replacement to be honest - I am really intrigued!
Not a lot more I can suggest for now - I'd still try a new battery after the speaker if there is no improvment.
How do the connections look on the speaker? Are they all clear and not touching anything else as well?
Okey i will buy a new battery for my phone, maybe its the issue, but i don't think so.
Today it is curious my phone just drain 650mW not 13xxmW anymore. But when i charge my phone, its increase again to 980mW
I will disassemble my phone today again at home and check if some metal is not correctly in the cover.
Okey i tested my phone again without the cover. I disassemble it and powered it without cover on and my battery was draining same about 1169mW.
So it is not the cover, maybe i should really buy a new battery.
Ok it did not help with the new battery. Still the same issue like before.
I bought a new mobile phone HTC desire and I am so happy about that. There is no compare with the old touch
Hmm, still trying to figure out what would be wrong if it was not related to the battery - possibly what controls it - but then that is a hardware fault.
I'll do some more thinking and see what I can come up with.
The desire is an awesome phone - one of the ones I am looking at getting soon. (Currently have a Hero as my main device and my Elfs as my spare/mess around phones)
yea desire is really awesome, i like to browsing through the market place
i think the elf has problems with the camera and this the issue for sucking battery out.
because it doesn't work anymore. when i press on the camera button, nothing happes.
no sandclock is showing up. just idle like never clicked on the button.
Morning,
I recently flashed VillianFroyd 1.7.2 and ever since it "seems" to change up much faster (half the time) than previously, though the drain seems to be about the same (or maybe slightly elevated)
Anyone any ideas?
I must admit the battery wasnt fully full when I flashed the ROM would this make a difference? if so I suppose I'm going to have to "somthing" like fully charge it and reset a cache or somthing.....Really dont want to do the re-calibrate malarky as that seems like the long way round and I dont belive there isnt an easier way to re-calibrate.
Oh hum, advice etc greafully recieved
Deech
I'd just do the standard re-calibration as its not too much of a hassle and I seem to have a much better battery life from doing it.
Charge phone with phone on, Turn off remove battery etc.
Doesn't really take too much effort.