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So im at a convention thisweekend and its been a while since I flash my rom to 3.2 freshbaked. This weekend I notice straight from 100% I was burning through most of it in 6-7 hour with out alot of usage. I took my phone out at 11:30 today and its only 4 and im already down to 36%. My battery usage shows 36% from system 22 from cell standby with 0 signal lost and 21 idle. Ill flash an updated rom when u get back.
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flashed new 3.3.0 fresh and after a full charge i've left it idle for 2 hours and i've already drained 20% of the battery. That roughly 10 hours of doing nothing and my phones dead.
It could be some app you are using/installed.
I recently flashed Fresh and expierenced the same situation . My Android system was always the highest on the list . I removed apps and stripped it down , I wiped Dalvik and Cache you name it and the phone could sit idle and the Android system would be as much as cellstand by if not higher . I eventually just went back to stock Froyo with root . Android system now sits lower than cell stand by and phone idle
I'm using the newest fresh Rom with kings 9 kernel and set CPU. I never been a heavy user but I'm sitting at 19hrs and 43% I took it off the charger around 3pm Saturday and have not charged it since.
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fresh 3.3, and netarchy's 4.1.9.1 fresh comp kernel, run your battery down to 3%, once there, boot into recovery, wipe your battery stats, and then reboot, once you reboot you may only get as far as the lockscreen before it shuts off, then either swap in a spare fully charged battery, or fully charge your battery with the phone turned off.
This is insane I'm currently Losing 1. 5. % a minute. Took it off 8 minutes ago and its down to 86 with 70% system usage
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What is your signal like in the building? I had a similar issue when I couldn't get a good signal. The phone would last four hours just sitting on my hip.
topdawgn8 said:
What is your signal like in the building? I had a similar issue when I couldn't get a good signal. The phone would last four hours just sitting on my hip.
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usually full bars.
mystax said:
usually full bars.
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whats the Up & Awake times?
with 22% left i unplugged it around 6 hour ago.
My Uptime is 27:13:36
Awake - 4:19:58
36% Cell Standby
30% Idle
22% System
7% display
5% voice call.
I bought a big ass battery, problem solved...
installed collins battery mod hope this works.
I have a work issued iPhone 4 and the fascinate. I fully charged both phones and put them on my desk at 3pm yesterday and did not use them at all. This morning the iPhone was at 98% charge and Fascinate was at 30%... Both phones sync with a exchange account and both have very good signal strength at my home.
I've checked the battery usage on Fascinate and the top 4 items are: Display 49%, Media server 15%, Cell standby 14% and Phone idle 9%. How can standby and idle use so much battery? I also used task manager and killed all running programs yesterday.
So what could be causing this? I can literally watch the battery percentage click down 1% for every couple of minutes of use.
Running Blackhole v1.3 with JT's Stable 11/11 kernel.
After a full day's worth of average use my battery (off the charger at 9am, on the charger at ~1am) My battery rarely drops into the orange.
You mentioned you had a task killer, I'd blame that first and foremost. Also, I think there was something inherently wrong with your test... if a screen that was off used 50% of the battery...
It's also entirely possible that you're just trolling, because I know from roomate experience that his phone if left alone is not at 98% battery after 24 hours. Also, APPLE lists the standby time as up to 300 hours. That would mean that at best you'd be looking at an ~8% drop after 24 hours.
That 15% used by the media server probably didn't help much. What all was your IPhone running in the background...oh wait, nevermind.
I dunno about the iphone but I feel you on the fascinate. I left mine off the charger, no screen on, with airplane mode on, and the battery dropped 50% in 7 hours. With absolutely no use. I'm lucky to get 7 hours during the day actually using the phone. Three display is always around 70% usage of the battery even though I have brights all the way down and always turn off the screen.
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I use Ultimate Juice Defender and I take my phone off the charger at 6:30 a.m. and by 5:30 p.m. I am usually at 80-90%.
Not sure, you might just have a bad battery. I have been off the charger for almost 7 hours now (early day). I have been messaging (google talk and sms) had WiFi/BlueTooth/GPS running constantly I rarely turn them off.
Have been using google maps off and on for at least 20-30 minutes as well as voice. And about 45 minutes of phone calls.
For me:
Display 29%
Standby 26%
Idle 16%
android 12%
and then bluetooth, LauncherPro, OS and Google rounding out the remaining quantities.
Oh forgot and a solid 20 minutes of angry birds
i use a task killer but i allways set system apps to ignore except camera and google maps and autokill stuff like file explorer, root explorer, games and stuff.
I get up at 4am use my phone pretty often little of everything and can make it threw a day getting homr at 5pm might be 16-20% battery left but still good imo.
Removing bloat might help?
I went to lunch and played with the phone while waiting for the food. Just red some news and surfed the web a bit. Before lunch the battery was at 34% now its at 16%, I think there definitely is something wrong with my phone. I wonder if a different kernel would help.
Try resetting battery stats and reconditioning the battery. There's no way it should drop more than a handful of percent asleep in airplane mode... Maybe one per hour.
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How would I recondition the battery? I've reset the stats with a fresh battery before and have tried different kernels. I have two batteries and it's the same with both. I even took it to verizon but they said there was nothing wrong with it even though it dropped 30% on their test call.
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I'd definitely say its just a bad battery. My fascinate stock destroys iphone battery life. With a UV kernal it at least doubles iphone battery life. My work issues iphones so I get a daily comparison.
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I would say battery as well, my phone has been off the charger for 20 hours now and I'm at 50%. It's my work phone so its a stock kernel.
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I was in your boat. The first fascinate I had would be unplugged at 6:30am and dead at 3pm with very little usage. I hated this phone. I got juice defender and it would last until 6 or 7 with very little usage, and as I used the phone I would watch as the battery rapidly ran dry. I got two other fascinates and it was the same issue. Then I got the one that I have now and it uses almost no power in standby. with juice defender and it being on idle, I can get almost 2 days out of 1 charge. I know it sounds ridiculous to you, with your experiences and it being a smartphone, but samsung has done some kind of magic here. Keep taking your phone back until you get one that uses very little battery on standby. Apparently there are a lot of units with bad batteries. As of this writing, with Ultimate Juice, my phone has been off the charger since 5:30 this morning, did some flashing, which uses the battery open throttle, installed 5 apps, played angry birds for about 35 mins and I am at 91% at 10:09
Well my 30 days are up, verizon found nothing wrong with it and I have 2 batteries.
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Well my 30 days are up, verizon found nothing wrong with it and I have 2 batteries.
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Try a different big red CSR, and if you fail again, try bricking it in a fixable way after backing up. If you come in with a force close loop, I but they won't have any idea whats going on and you'll have a high likelihood of getting a new phone. If it fails, just reflash and try another tack.
Haha perfect.
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I would honestly try one of the Stupidfast kernels if you really want bettery battery life, but honestly it sounds like some kind of hardware problem.
Stupidfast kernels really do give me better battery life. I was skeptical at first but after wiping the battery stats and rebooting after I unplug I've been getting GREAT battery life.
I'm a HEAVY user and I unplugged at 11 AM and 9 hours later I still have 31% left. With ANY other kernel, my phone would be at <20% by now, probably under 10%
I'm a believer, and will be donating come Wednesday when I get paid
Tried them all. But the stupid fast does seem to do the best job.
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I will say one thing, with the new DJ05 update my battery life is great. Best I've ever had. So when it is finally pushed to u enjoy. I feel like there has been some tweaks made in the upcoming update that make even a bone stock fascinate one of the best around.
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I will say one thing, with the new DJ05 update my battery life is great. Best I've ever had. So when it is finally pushed to u enjoy. I feel like there has been some tweaks made in the upcoming update that make even a bone stock fascinate one of the best around.
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+1 on that.
DJ05 + StupidFast 1.2.3 = a battery juice sipper !!!!
I was under the impression that the battery drain issue was fixed with new sc 2.9.2. Anyone else still having issues?
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Edit: Apparently i was seeing things when i read new updates. No fix in SC. Back to waiting for my phone to die.
I don't have battery drain issues
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Im only having problems with voodoo kernels. Flashed ec10v last night and had same issue. disabled voodoo and flashed back to eb01. did full wipe this morn and installed sc 2.9.2v and im back to same battery issue. its irritating.
No issue for me
I am actually seeing much better battery drain... I am on SC2.9.2V
im unplugged almost 4.5 hrs and im at 95% still....
sigh... working on battery calibration now. i have to leave for work soon so w/e i do it has to be now. lol. no comp access at work so i cant odin cwm if i break it. might just flash back to sc 2.9.2nv till i have time to play.
My 2.9.2. dropped 5% in 15 minute idle state.
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My 2.9.2. dropped 5% in 15 minute idle state.
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Ouch... lol. Mine is about that bad. 15-20% an hour idle and 10% in 20 min just using xda app.
phoenix727 said:
Ouch... lol. Mine is about that bad. 15-20% an hour idle and 10% in 20 min just using xda app.
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I feel your pain. In my case, and maybe yours, I think the culprit is the horrible coverage verizon gives me.
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I feel your pain. In my case, and maybe yours, I think the culprit is the horrible coverage verizon gives me.
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Attempting calibration. I will get back to you guys, once I finish, with the method I used.
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Attempting calibration. I will get back to you guys, once I finish, with the method I used.
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Let me know how it goes. I've tried a dozen times with no luck. Maybe your method will work better.
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Does your battery drop to 0 that fast?
I have had a time where by battery dropped 15% within 1-2 hours, but then I was stuck on a certain percentage for hours.
Hello, I started a thread 2 weeks ago and it has some good info there. Take a look.
I update the OP regularly adding post made by others. No one has posted anything in a week. If you find how to fix your problems please post it there and I will add it to the OP. Its up to everyone to keep that thread alive.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987529
I've had issues as well. Mine are related to GPS wakelock. Every fresh boot I will consistently get a partial wakelock of 100% because of the GPS. Simply opening Maps and closing it will force the wakelock to release.
I'm curious as to why others aren't having this issue, yet some of us are?
I've tried the EB01 modem as well as the DL09 modem and its the same results. Aside from this, battery life is great...
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Ouch... lol. Mine is about that bad. 15-20% an hour idle and 10% in 20 min just using xda app.
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When you say 'idle' do you mean like zero apps running (like stopping everything running via a task killer). Then what,, like keep the phone's screen lit up by not letting it sleep and monitor the battery drain over a period of time? I'll have to try that and see how mine does. I'm guessing mine will prolly drop 15-20% as well if I have the screen lit for a solid hour.. hmm
I didnt really think mine was working 'bad' though, I just figured thats about what these batteries in these could do. I can make it though a day without a re-charge but I admit I have to budget my usage of the phone thoughout the day.. not using it for long solid periods of time and such.. If 15-20% an hour drain would be considered 'bad', how much should it drop in an hour to be considered working 'well' in your opinions?
Well I spent all day charging, using and then recharging my phone. it died in about 5:45 hrs of med to heavy use. I used the method outlined in this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987529
I lost 5% battery in 45 min this morning which would have been nice but it was idle in my pocket. :-(
I gave up... reflashed 2.92nv and im checking to make sure its not having same issue.
If anyone has more suggestions there are now 2 pages i found for this problem specific to the facinate.
My battery is pretty decent after clearing battstats. Heavy use I'll lose about 13% per hour. Idle is decent, 3-5% per hour.
2.9.2 ec10voodoo
Ok I did a little test with mine - I set my LCD screen timeout setting to 10 minutes, turned my wifi and gps off (left the cell radio on), killed all apps that were running in task manager. Then I sat the phone down on my desk with the screen lit up and tapped the screen every 8-9 minutes or so just to keep it from going to sleep for one solid hour. I didnt do anything else with or use the phone in any way during this time. My battery dropped 18% in one hour. Think I'll try the batt stat clear procedure and redo the same test and see if its any different.
Mine is horrible. For some reason, it drains in proportion to my use. If I use it constantly, and hardly put it down, I'm lucky to only get 6 hours out of it.
I don't get decent life unless I put it in airplane mode, turn off rotation, and don't use it. Then I'm good for
16 - 18 hours.
WTF¿
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I can understand getting 6 to 8 hours if your a heavy user. but Im only concerned with my idle battery use. Juicedefender help some what. you can get it on the marketplace.
I'm still having the same issue with the nonvoodoo version. I'm still not sure how some users are getting over 40 hours of battery life.
as far as I can tell recalibrating my battery had no effect on the battery life. I plan on trying to recalibrate 1 more time in case I messed up the process. I will post my results in a day or 2. good luck to the rest of you. if you find anything out that may help me or anyone else please post it here
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Kaze105 said:
Does your battery drop to 0 that fast?
I have had a time where by battery dropped 15% within 1-2 hours, but then I was stuck on a certain percentage for hours.
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No... not me at least. Just drains and drains and drains and.... U get the point.
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I flashed bionix nexgen recently and it is smooth and very stable. I added bali kernel and right now im at 29% battery left with my battery status reading 2days 14hr 34m 22s . Of course I have a 3000 battery but in telling you with other Rome I never got long life like this.
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I always ask how long the screen on time is when every one get "a good battery life"
No matter which rom I tried the screen on time is only around 2 hours when it died
Juicedefender Ultimate. It really works.
I'm on trigger been unplugged for 17h and 24m and screen on time of 1h 51m and have 32% left, but that's with brightness cranked up to 100%
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Im at 3h 15m with moderate use w screen on. Total up time 63 hours 39 minutes.
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Yeah I was pretty impressed with the battery life on bionix though I haven't tried the Bali kernel yet. Currently running CM7, 5-11-11 nightly. Unplugged 14 hours 10 minutes, screen on 2 hours 30 minutes, 20% left. Not exceptional but probably the best time I've gotten on a CM7 Vibrant build.
its pretty easy to distinguish how you got it
1. 3000 mah battery (double stock)
2. probably 20 +/- hours worth of it is when its in sleep mode (you're asleep and your phone hardly drains any battery)
3. your screen on time is probably less than 4 hours (assuming its double the 2 hours screen on time you get achieve on a stock battery)
Absolutely, those facts are all true. I am not trying to proclaim heavy duty use here. Im just encouraged to see the ability to go so long unplugged. I have done quite a bit of surfing, texting, youtube and calls. Im at 20% right now at 3days 10 minutes.
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I have found out that my battery lasts about 8 hours if I have gps and wifi on. If i turn those off I get about 28 hours.
Also when I first got my vibrant I had signal booster stickers on it and those killed the battery like in 2 hours and made the device real hot for some reason.
stock battery, trigger 3.2
with a stock battery, and stock trigger, no modifications, I get 15-23 hours usage, more than enough for a whole 11 hour work day. Battery calibrated with the battery calibrate app
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I always ask how long the screen on time is when every one get "a good battery life"
No matter which rom I tried the screen on time is only around 2 hours when it died
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I once got 5 hours screen on time.
9% left total up time: 85hrs 31m bali kernel wins for me! Of course with the amazing bionix nexgen sweetness.
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Hey guys,
I'm sure most of you know about the Battery Calibration app on the market.
For most of you, calibrating at 100% charge should significantly increase battery life.
After playing around, it seems that the phone can't seem to "keep" a sustained "track record" in battery life over the days and repeated charging.
Once calibrated the first time, battery life seems to be exceptional. Allowing the phone to die and charging again without calibration seems to degrade the battery life yet again. It's definitely something with the batterystats file.
Also, once calibrated, if your phone is charged (lets say from 25%) to give yourself some extra juice, and you do not hit 100%, remaining battery life seems to suffer.
I've repeated this multiple times as well. Last night, I charged from 25% to 54% and my phone couldn't keep a good charge and dropped to 19% with light usage in about 2 hours.
The Point: Calibrate your battery every time you hit a 100% charge. (For me, each morning). By doing this, I've went from 6-8hrs of total battery time to about 22-30hrs.
I've even managed to squeeze out 2.5hrs of display time as well.
Maybe the dev of the app should add an automated scheduling feature, or one that calibrates every time the device hits 100%.
Hope this helps!
Im going to try this, charge is at 80% so i'll throw it on charger, and then calibrate at 100. I hate how the battery in this phone is so sporadic, i've only gotten 30 hours out of it once. and never again.
Do u sure it affects a lot?
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alistair3149 said:
Do u sure it affects a lot?
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Made a huge difference for me, give it a shot.
charged to 100% and then calibrated the battery, i will update you on how it fairs, and what kind of usage i do. I usually am pretty low on battery by the time im on my way home in about 6 hours.
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Do u sure it affects a lot?
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It varies for everyone; hence "calibration". This gives people the battery life they should be getting.
This usually only makes a (or I should say the most) difference with freshly factory reset phones, or right after flashing a custom rom.
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charged to 100% and then calibrated the battery, i will update you on how it fairs, and what kind of usage i do. I usually am pretty low on battery by the time im on my way home in about 6 hours.
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Nice, let us know how it goes.
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1 hr 50 minutes unplugged so far,
15m 7s display @ 26%
3m 9s Voice calls @ 18%
idle @ 15%
wifi 9%
SYStem 8%
standby is 7%
com.motorola.service.main 4%
launcherpro 4%
android OS 3%
Email 2%
Only down 10% battery. normally im down roughly 10%/hr when ive so much as used voice/email.
I agree with the OP... This seems like a much safer way to keep the battery accurate, etc. I was told a while ago that the Battery calibration app doesn't work right on the atrix, so I was told to manually wipe the stats in CWM, then let the phone die and then recharge to 100%...BAD idea. Battery seemed completely fried after this, only about 1/4 as long as it did before.
I think the app does work, and it's much safer. I don't really recommend ever letting the phone die though, after what happened to me. Could have been a freak accident, but not taking that risk again!
28h 30m, 46% battery left.
2h display
30m talking
30m plants vs zombies
All I've ever done is charge phone to 100% first charge, let it completely die, and then only charge to 100% at night, with occasional car charger use.
I wouldn't suggest completely decharging battery regularly, it deteriorates lithium ion batteries faster
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I never let mine die completely either. Ill usually put it up to charge at night once it hits about 20% or so. Calibrating once in the morning seems to get me through the day pretty well.
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80% battery remaining. 5hr 2m 5s since unplugging.
32% - Display 53m 0s (rare for an even number)
14% voice calls 7m 2s
13% idle - 4h 9m 7s
8% wifi - 4h 52m 5s
7% android system.
6% cell standby
5% swype
3% android os
3% maps
2% com.motorola.service.main
2% LauncherPro
This is definitely better than usual. 2 hours in, i was at 80%. now after 5 hours, im at 80%...
On a side note, The phone hasnt gotten hot in my pocket like it usually does today as well.
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I never let mine die completely either. Ill usually put it up to charge at night once it hits about 20% or so. Calibrating once in the morning seems to get me through the day pretty well.
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How long have you had your phone? Mine really didn't start performing well until I had had it for 3 weeks or so. I did a flash to the 1.83 SBF (at 100% battery - equal to a recalibration) and haven't shut it off in like 10 days. No recalibration and I can get at least 18 hours of use (with like 4-5 hours of screen time).
tl;dr - I don't think you need to recalibrate all the time
How do you figure the 100%, since the battery goes from 90 to 100.
Do you just let the battery calibration app beep when it measures 100%?
Thanks.
Which battery calibration app did you download?
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I used this app:
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration
As for my phone, I've had it since launch day on at&t.
Another thing to mention: add a screen-off profile using setcpu as well, definitely helps.
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charlyee said:
How do you figure the 100%, since the battery goes from 90 to 100.
Do you just let the battery calibration app beep when it measures 100%?
Thanks.
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Yes, the app will notify you when your phone is at 100%, as well as the text reading "charged" on the lockscreen.
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Funny, i was just about to post in an older battery thread about similar issues as the op. Ill give this a shot
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BBock9 said:
Funny, i was just about to post in an older battery thread about similar issues as the op. Ill give this a shot
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Let us know how it goes!
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