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After updating to EB13 it now takes forever for my battery to charge, it barely lasts 6 hours, and the battery gets hot as can be. I now have actually had my phone tell me it cant charge till it cools off. It never happened on DI18. Also, if im doing something on my phone while its plugged in, the charger wont keep up with the usage.
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what kernel is on your phone?
my battery was very erratic too after updating to EB13. I just flashed it a second time with odin, and now my battery lasts longer than it ever has!
I'm not sure if this would help you, but it certainly helped me
FYI: I flashed the ext4 version from the dev page, and it seems to run a lot better after an odin flash.
Stock EB13 kernel.
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35% Charged
Mine been charging up to 35% all day, Im a try to let it charge all night see what i get in the morning
It takes 8 hours to charge the battery, where it took around 2 hours befre the update. The phone is also hot as well, where it never was when on DI18
mine also takes quite a while to charge, but lasts quite a while as well..
I like the long lasting part.. the slower charging stinks though. :/
You may need to wipe your battery stats.
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How would i wipe the battery stats
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How would i wipe the battery stats
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That was mostly directed at some of the others in the thread.
If you issue is just that it seems to take too long to charge then wiping stats in CWM (you have to use the one click root - not sure if you can do it in stock recovery) *might* help.
Your issue seems a little different - the phone should NOT run hot like that. Even overclocked to 1.2 mine doesn't get very hot unless I'm really pushing it while it's charging. Have you tried reflashing your phone? Backup everything important and try the Samsung updater tool (it'll wipe everything and start you fresh on EB13).
Only computer available is a mac so reflashing is a no go
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Only computer available is a mac so reflashing is a no go
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You can try a Sprint store if you have one near.
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I had similar problems with eb13. Battery went from about half to dead in a minute or two and i kept getting force closes on some apps. Went back to dk28. I was running the genocide kernel.
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All my sprints stores say that their software is incompatible to reflash the OS.
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I flashed from the Samsung updater and then did a battery test. After a full charge I was able to go 34 hours down to 3%. A lot of that time was in sleep mode for the phone, but I also was running live wallpaper and had GPS on the entire time and WiFi off and on throughout. I'm pretty impressed with the battery chops.
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I flashed from the Samsung updater and then did a battery test. After a full charge I was able to go 34 hours down to 3%. A lot of that time was in sleep mode for the phone, but I also was running live wallpaper and had GPS on the entire time and WiFi off and on throughout. I'm pretty impressed with the battery chops.
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I agree with this. I got 25 hours with moderate use. Facebooking, twittering, uploading pics, even went to the gym and streamed music with Double Twist for an hour. Battery is amazing.
Guess ill have to get hold of a windows pc and reflash with samsung updater
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Mine charges fine, but it WILL NOT sleep. Same issue I had in DK28. I have NO idea what could be causing it. I've hardly installed anything, and the only widget I have is the "Battery Life" widget and I've even tried killing it and no change, won't sleep. Don't know what to do other than go back to DI18.
yeah...my phone has been running hot as balls lately. I've never gotten into the 100's before like this...usually just surfing with 3G im in the mid 80s..now I stay in the high 90s going to 100s :/
Batteries that take a long time to charge need to be replaced.
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Anyway to limit these two occurances, seems they are the worst at battery sucking...
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justflorin said:
Anyway to limit these two occurances, seems they are the worst at battery sucking...
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Not really, all they are basically saying is "this is how much power the phone used doing nothing" short of actually turning the phone off its unavoidable.
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if they show the most battery drain then there is probably a program that is still running when you phone is in sleep mode and killing your battery
Yesterday for the first time ever I got a popup window telling me that Google Voice was running for too long and was killing the battery. It asked if I wished to end the process or continue. Had never seen that before, so I'm guessing it has to do with Moto's Battery Manager. Either way, there could be services eating up cycles during "sleep" time.
This thread was made for the sole purpose of letting your frustration(s) with the epic 4g loose!
So whatever the case maybe. Instead of cluttering someones thread with non-sense out of frustration, do it all in this thread.
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The keyboard skipping......
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No matter how much or how I calibrate my battery, it almost always drops to 97% after unplugging. Some times it will stay at 100 and stay at 100 for about an hour. Also, you'll be at say 50% and reboot the phone and be at 12% for 5 hours.
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and the pain in the neck the sammy drivers are on win7 x64, my notification led and my front facing camera not working, the fact that my phone is crooked when i close it now, how slow samsprint is at updating it, and on and on and on. lol. with all of the inherent problems, though, i still prefer it over an iPhone.
The wobble....
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Whatever samsung isn't releasing to make our phone easier to develope aosp roms for.
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Most of the above + lack of T.V. out
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kos26 said:
No matter how much or how I calibrate my battery, it almost always drops to 97% after unplugging. Some times it will stay at 100 and stay at 100 for about an hour. Also, you'll be at say 50% and reboot the phone and be at 12% for 5 hours.
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I don't mind attempting to help.
What ROM are you using?
Capacity of the battery you're using?
Which Modem are you on?
Do you oc/uv?
Which kernel are you using?
Install spare parts from the market.
Run your phone for 30min-1 hour.
Check the battery usage.
Post your stats back here if you are unable to solve.
Useful tips: Get titanium Backup pro or some other app freezing application from the market.
Open the app up. And freeze the following processes.
Drm content
Drm Launcher
System Update
Sns account(will stop facebook from sync.)
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biggest frustration is the visual voicemail. i see a missed call, i see i have voicemail, but when i click "play" on the voicemail it says it can't play the voicemail.
only way to fix it is to power off phone, power on, then the voicemail will play. same problem i had on my old samsung flip phone 3 years ago. promised myself i would never again own a samsung phone but the Epic was the best phone available at the time. sigh.
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biggest frustration is the visual voicemail. i see a missed call, i see i have voicemail, but when i click "play" on the voicemail it says it can't play the voicemail.
only way to fix it is to power off phone, power on, then the voicemail will play. same problem i had on my old samsung flip phone 3 years ago. promised myself i would never again own a samsung phone but the Epic was the best phone available at the time. sigh.
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That fix seems beyond annoying lol. I can understand the frustration behind that although there isn't that much voicemail in the world to be frustarted over unless you almost never answer your phone calls.
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Custodian said:
That fix seems beyond annoying lol. I can understand the frustration behind that although there isn't that much voicemail in the world to be frustarted over unless you almost never answer your phone calls.
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while at work (roughly 10 hours a day with commute) i rarely answer my personal phone. unfortunately that's when many people (or services like the comcast setup crew, etc.) call.
i end up rebooting my phone, just for voicemail, at least 4 times a week. i don't know if it's something i did (just running stock Froyo EB13 - rooted with EXT4 file system), an app i installed, etc., but it's odd to me that it happened on my old Samsung flip phone on Verizon and now on my Samsung Epic on Sprint.
ready for the rumoured Gingerbread update to officially drop (actually ready for source to come out so i can finally switch off of the stock firmware - for some reason i've been holding out flashing a custom ROM until gingerbread. probably silly of me, but that's what i've been telling myself).
willow_ve said:
biggest frustration is the visual voicemail. i see a missed call, i see i have voicemail, but when i click "play" on the voicemail it says it can't play the voicemail.
only way to fix it is to power off phone, power on, then the voicemail will play. same problem i had on my old samsung flip phone 3 years ago. promised myself i would never again own a samsung phone but the Epic was the best phone available at the time. sigh.
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i've never ever had that problem (knock on wood). Maybe a bad flash or something. try updating your voicemail app and make sure you have 3g when your checking your voicemail.
For the battery issue, nubecoder wrote something that can be implemented into kernels for a fuller more complete charge. I don't know which kernels incorporate this.. i'm currently on bakedsnack and it does have it. battery is superb.
When you have to completely close apps (market) just to get data to connect. Its as if its false 3g -_-
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Custodian said:
I don't mind attempting to help.
What ROM are you using?
Capacity of the battery you're using?
Which Modem are you on?
Do you oc/uv?
Which kernel are you using?
Install spare parts from the market.
Run your phone for 30min-1 hour.
Check the battery usage.
Post your stats back here if you are unable to solve.
Useful tips: Get titanium Backup pro or some other app freezing application from the market.
Open the app up. And freeze the following processes.
Drm content
Drm Launcher
System Update
Sns account(will stop facebook from sync.)
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I'm running srf 1.1.1 w/ twilight zone 1.1.1. I don't run over 1ghz, and am under volted. Ec05 modem. I don't believe this to be a kernel or rom issue, its done this almost from the start of having this phone. I'm not sure what info you're looking for in spare parts specifically.
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kos26 said:
No matter how much or how I calibrate my battery, it almost always drops to 97% after unplugging.
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Read this: http://phandroid.com/2010/12/25/you...is-lying-to-you-and-its-not-such-a-bad-thing/
Its supposed to drop down a bit after you unplug.
GPS issues
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GPS issues
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I assume you're on a ee03 rom?
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When I posted that a few minutes ago I was on EC05. I'm trying out EE03 right now w/ the GPS fix zip applied right now. Regardless, there is no reason that Samsung is still pushing out updates without fixing the skipping keyboard and GPS fixes.
BLUETOOTH!!!
Connects once, then when call ends, it disconnects the bluetooth and refuses to reconnect unless the I toggle the bluetooth on/off. Very freaken annoying to say the least.
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After FroYo update (never happened on Eclair) every time I need to turn WiFi on is becoming a hustle and audio support disappears (Not playing any music mp3 or streaming and notifications) after sometime. both problems seems to be getting a "fix" after unmount/mount a SD card trick. Extremely annoying.
My wife and i both have MT4G phones. While mine works perfectly fine, My wife's is having issues that I can figure out.
First, let's say that she 76% left on her battery, the phone will just power off. But when the phone is restarted, the battery will be at something like 8-20%. Now I thought her battery was bad so I swapped her battery for my battery to see if i needed to buy a new battery.
With her battery in my phone there were no issues with my phone and conversely, her phone with my battery and it does the same thing.
Anyone else have this issue?
she probably has a rougue app. One that's juicing the living **** out of that battery. Look through her apps and see if any of them run while device screen is off. Its probably an app thats syncing constantly.
You can check these by going to settings/about phone/ battery/battery use. There's you'll see the apps that are running and which take alot of juice out of the battery.
You can also reduce sync for anything by going to settings/account and sync. Thee you can change sync intervals or stop anything from syncing at all.
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mackpbj said:
My wife and i both have MT4G phones. While mine works perfectly fine, My wife's is having issues that I can figure out.
First, let's say that she 76% left on her battery, the phone will just power off. But when the phone is restarted, the battery will be at something like 8-20%. Now I thought her battery was bad so I swapped her battery for my battery to see if i needed to buy a new battery.
With her battery in my phone there were no issues with my phone and conversely, her phone with my battery and it does the same thing.
Anyone else have this issue?
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Uninstall suspected apps til you find the culprit also.
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This is common with mine, it does it while charging. Its not a rouge app. Cause ive tried it and cannot find any app that is running it unless its shadowed. I dunno but it happen a few times already. I use cm7. Now it can also be related to emmc chip. Kinda curious only a few people have these issuses. Wouldnt it be more wide spread and more people have problems with it, if its an app?
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I would say to try and do a factory reset.
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That would happen to me if I wiped battery stats in recovery.
And on some Rome.usually full wipe and reflash solved it.
Haven't wiped battery stats in a long time,and I haven't had that issue since.
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Hey guys, I just noticed that Google services has been using up a good deal of battery for the past few days... My autosync is off, gps off but still has it using up a fifth of my battery.. Anyone else have similar problems?
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sameer1807 said:
Hey guys, I just noticed that Google services has been using up a good deal of battery for the past few days... My autosync is off, gps off but still has it using up a fifth of my battery.. Anyone else have similar problems?
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Same here. I wonder if it's the new Gmail.
Yep same here
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They better fix it.. I'm losing battery lol.. Dropped 15% in 2 hours standby
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They better fix it.. I'm losing battery lol.. Dropped 15% in 2 hours standby
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I have noticed that even in flight mode and screen off, there is a significant amount of battery drain (i saw 20% less in 6 hrs). With previews phone.. would be 2 to 5 %. I think that the key would be to underclock it in iddle mode
Do you have Google Now and maps location reporting enabled? Those two are major battery hogs.
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This worked for me and a friend. Go to Application manager then Google Play services and click uninstall updates. After uninstalling launch Hangouts. It will tell you that you need to update at which point do so. Hope that helps you out like it did me.
I am willing to bet these drains all occur after Google app updates? It seems that most Google apps want to eat battery the first cycle after they were updated. What I have noticed though, is that even though the "battery" stats report Google services as using a lot of percentage, the actually time the phone takes before it needs charged is about the same as when battery stats doesn't report Google services as eating battery.
So, see if "Google services" or Maps or any other Google app doesn't settle down after a cycle and also check to see if it really is shortening the time your phone needs between charges. I suspect it might just be temporary or maybe reported to the phone wrong.
Except for Google Music, freeze it, it will eat your data.
i uninstalled the play services update, and i disabled location services..seems to be fine now. ill turn it back on after a while to see if problem is caused by updates.
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They better fix it.. I'm losing battery lol.. Dropped 15% in 2 hours standby
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I've had this standby battery issue with three s4s now. Really annoying. My nexus four with a smaller battery lasts way longer
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