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Strange problem I recently developed on my vibrant. Suggestions?

Ok so these last couple of days I've been having the strangest problem with my vibrant. The battery litterally sucks it self on the charger. For example, today at 3 in the morning I woke up to find my phone charging at 71% I was like ok good. Woke up at 7 and the phone was completly dead! It looses power on the charger. At first i thought it was the battery so i switched it. And whattya know. Still the same problem. Then i thought it was the usb port since ya know samsungs port sucks ass so j get a new charger and nothing. Let me remind you tthat this is a recent problem. Any body know a fix to this?
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Rom?
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Jasonhunterx said:
Rom?
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Bionix V 1.3.1, Bali kernel.
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which bali kernal? im rockin bali 1.8.8 and no problems

im getting amazing battery life with this setup

Yea 1.8.8. Im getting serious battery drain! Ill loose about 7% in like 5minutes while plugged in the friggin charger.
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Test your charger. Try usb charge from pc. With a different cable to be sure something is not crossed inside.
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Test your charger. Try usher charge from pc. With a different cable to be sure something is not crossed inside.
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The battery should not drain like that period not even cm is that bad
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My point is nothing to do with rom or phone but rather the charger or cable my be damage and causing short that drains the battery. Hence the suggestion to try other cables and charge methods to eliminate the possibility of this being the culprit.
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Bought a new charger before I posted. Still draining!
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Does it also fail to charge if the phone is turned off? If it charges while off then perhaps its a software issue after all. If not then the charge/usb port might be bad. How are you charging the battery between posting?
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caliga4221 said:
Does it also fail to charge if the phone is turned off? If it charges while off then perhaps its a software issue after all. If not then the charge/usb port might be bad. How are you charging the battery between posting?
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It shows its charging. But it'll go from like 11% to 0% in like 10 mins. And yea it charges with the screen off.
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Have you tried to backup and re-flash your phone? Have you tried a battery calibration by wiping the battery stats? My advice *having never encountered that issue* would be to save all your data, make a list of the apps you use regularly and re-flash the phone then manually re-download each app and do not restore anything. if all goes well and it charges like normal then your set and can if you wish restore your old data and/or apps 1 per day till you notice the problem, return if it does.

I did just that. Reflashed a new rom and less drain but its definatly.
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My next advice would be to try stock 2.2 for a day or so and see if it has issues. then if its ok try a new stable version of cm7 or miui * different build than previously used* and see if the problem returns.

caliga4221 said:
My next advice would be to try stock 2.2 for a day or so and see if it has issues. then if its ok try a new stable version of cm7 or miui * different build than previously used* and see if the problem returns.
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Ive been thinking of cm7 but the battery life is driving me away. I was able to charge it till like 40% then i unplugged it by accident and I plugged it back in and BOOM battery drain. Its at 0% and will not rise.
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If the phone gets hotter than 120° then it wil stop charging and actually dicharge. Make sure your not overcloking or ajything.

My advice on which rom if your not set would be to use trigger. I moved to trigger a long time ago after one of my bionix flashes didnt work quite right and have not looked back yet. I am currently on project v with trigger theme which is a little more like stock but with tweaks than a fully custom rom.

Ok so I got it to charge too 100% overnight and I unplugged it and it went down too 37% instantly. -__- just started working today and this isn't cool. I also left it by a fan so it wasn't hot at all.
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Alex530 said:
Ok so I got it to charge too 100% overnight and I unplugged it and it went down too 37% instantly. -__- just started working today and this isn't cool. I also left it by a fan so it wasn't hot at all.
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In that case I would be sure to flash back to stock clean and then go to a different rom, I suggest Trigger 3.2 very stable in my experience, and charge to 100% and do a battery calibration. Trigger comes with an app to calibrate the battery and be sure its fully charged.

poor battery performance

My friends,
I have upgraded my phone to above upgrade but noticed very poor battery performance please what is the solution?

Alkali said:
My friends,
I have upgraded my phone to above upgrade but noticed very poor battery performance please what is the solution?
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Hi there,
You haven't given much detail on your upgrade
But assuming you flashed a ROM, did you also flash the recommended radio?
If you did do both, give it a couple of days to settle down (try to resist the temptation to fill the phone back up with apps), then compare again.

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Hi there,
You haven't given much detail on your upgrade
But assuming you flashed a ROM, did you also flash the recommended radio?
If you did do both, give it a couple of days to settle down (try to resist the temptation to fill the phone back up with apps), then compare again.
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I did neither, just upgraded the stock rom the way i bought it. Software upgrade. thanks

Alkali said:
I did neither, just upgraded the stock rom the way i bought it. Software upgrade. thanks
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What type of battery performance are you getting?

Check this. It helped me out alot. Improved my battery life alot.
Just go by instructions on how to flash the ROM properly (recommended). When you boot up the ROM for the first time just install "Current Widget" from market and "Battery Calibration". Plug the phone into the wall or computer and leave it to charge till 100%. Then just open the "Battery Calibration" app and calibrate the battery. Read more in the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226016

markslo112 said:
Check this. It helped me out alot. Improved my battery life alot.
Just go by instructions on how to flash the ROM properly (recommended). When you boot up the ROM for the first time just install "Current Widget" from market and "Battery Calibration". Plug the phone into the wall or computer and leave it to charge till 100%. Then just open the "Battery Calibration" app and calibrate the battery. Read more in the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226016
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But i do not want to root my phone, i want it the way it is. I do not want to void the warranty.
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zelendel said:
What type of battery performance are you getting?
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Four hrs at most.
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Alkali said:
Four hrs at most.
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OK take a look at what your battery info says is killing your battery. There are alot of things that can effect the battery. When you did the update did you do a factory reset? What apps do you have running? Social networking Widgets updating?

this thread is stupid. you say you have crap battery, yet you fail to deliver any statitic, screenshots, usage etc.
4 hours what? standby? screen on time?

olyloh6696 said:
this thread is stupid. you say you have crap battery, yet you fail to deliver any statitic, screenshots, usage etc.
4 hours what? standby? screen on time?
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Dear 6696,
Pls go easy on me. Since the upgrade i did not do the reset for fear of loosing my settings and Apps. Simply said prior to the upgrade i spent 8 to 10 hrs with my phone doing everything and that includes listening to radio, surfing the net and making calls but after the upgrade it takes only four hrs doing same to finish the battery. Thanks.
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zelendel said:
OK take a look at what your battery info says is killing your battery. There are alot of things that can effect the battery. When you did the update did you do a factory reset? What apps do you have running? Social networking Widgets updating?
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And isn't there any App that can show what to stop killing the battery. I have stopped auto sync,display but still------
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Google Maps was a massive battery drain for me. Try using the Sense Task Manager to kill the app for the time being and see if that helps at all.
Also Twitter (the official app) seems to be using a lot of battery too.

[Q] Power Issues

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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phone dies when playing games

randomly when I play little empire, my phone will suddenly die.then when I turn it on it says I have no battery left. sometimes if I reboot it'll say I have around 20 to 30 percent. this happens even after I tried battery calibration (the app and in cwm) and even if I fully charge my phone. I'm on tdjs Kang with stock kernel on darkside gov
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cirjeffrey said:
randomly when I play little empire, my phone will suddenly die.then when I turn it on it says I have no battery left. sometimes if I reboot it'll say I have around 20 to 30 percent. this happens even after I tried battery calibration (the app and in cwm) and even if I fully charge my phone. I'm on tdjs Kang with stock kernel on darkside gov
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just wondering but how long have you had the battery? it might be defective...
or, maybe it was a bad game download..?

birthday present since March last year. I was starting to assume the phone was the problem cuz I've been having other issues as well
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cirjeffrey said:
birthday present since March last year. I was starting to assume the phone was the problem cuz I've been having other issues as well
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hm... might be time to get a replacement? :/

perhaps ok well thanks for helping anyways
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I have to comment cause im having the same problems. But instead playing games, mine will just die. It happen now btw, it was on charge all night woke up and seen that there was no charge on the battery, i unpluged it and now it wont charge and my orange led just flashes when i plug it into a charger. In order to get out of it last time i used a walmart charger. Took out the battery pluged it in, took it out over and over and different ways. I was about to bash it. Well then out of the blue it started to charge again and turn on with absolutly no charge but did show it started to charge again. It only happens with cm7, cause thats only what i use the most. So i dunno whats the deal is im tempted to take it to tmobile store and see if they can give me a replacement battery and to see if its the battery itself. So hell i dont know what the heck its doing but i need it for my job cause im a truck driver and i depend on it to get loads and what not. It doesnt power up,doesnt boot into recovery, but does turn on when i hold the volume button and power button in the vibrate unknown mode and orange led flashes. I know i didnt brick it because ive been in this situation before and works after i did the special pattern to get it working again. The pattern is unknown cause it all depends so dont ask it was a euthastic comment. so hell buddy me and you are in the same boat until then
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Edit** ok i managed to get it turned on again, pulled battery,sim,sdcard. Put it on charge then waited a few minutes, then put battery in it and then plugged it back in. It worked, im going to try to post a screenshot of the battery usage. I got to let the battery charge up some, so i can put everything back in it. I dunno it may be related to the emmc chip.

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Nexus 7 shutting down in idle state due to battery drain!

My nexus 7 was fully charged and I put it in the rack in the night. Next morning it shut down completely. When I switched it on, it showed battery 0% says 0% the same c thing happened today as well. Its a new device. Any idea??
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Can you please show the screen snap of battery usage??

Sure.. Here is the screen shot..
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Some app or service is draining your battery. Get BetterBatteryStats to narrow it down.
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I installed battery saver app.. I will check if it can do any good..
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Like someone said before it's a rogue app and the only way your going to get the battery drain issue to go away is to figure out which app is doing it and then get rid of it.
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I think the best solution for you is to factory reset or re-install android on your device once.
It will be easier than finding out where is the problem. as screen snap shows most of the battery is drained by "android OS".
It was just my opinion you can take it if you want.
My battery usage. Even though my screen on time was only about 2 hrs most of the battery was drained by the screen. So there music be something very wrong in your case.
I don't know about android virus but that might be an option.
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I found that its day dream option got activated some how. I deactivated. Now its working great again.
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*Crosses fingers*
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I found that its day dream option got activated some how. I deactivated. Now its working great again.
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Gonna follow along and disable my daydream as well since I'm having the same problem you are with it actually draining while on the charger (Stock ROM, Franco Kernel, OEM wall wart with gold tipped USB cable). Tis quite annoying to have to either keep the screen off or power down completely in order for this bad boy to charge...