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Hello,
I can't believe this has not been mentioned already - but I've done a search and I can't see anything regarding this subject.
I'm just curious as to the battery chart in regards the Display. It is always really high. As a test - I charged my phone to 100% and then over night left my phone alone, with the screen off to see what the stats were. When i awoke the battery chart had the display eating up 54% (even though the screen had been off all night).
Is that normal? Can the Battery useage chart be trusted?
I'm running a rooted device - with XE2.
Am I missing something here
My chart has been 100 precise for me. Post a screen shot if you can.
Also make sure you are not running NoLED.
Yep, ill sort a screen shot out.
And what is NoLED?
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thenoble06 said:
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And what is NoLED?
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So you are NOT running it
It is a utility that uses your screen to display notifications, because there is no LED indicator on the phone that flashes for missed calls, voicemails, messages, etc.
NoLED displayes those little dots on the black screen itself.
Theoretically it makes the screen to be always on, and wastes extra power. But again there is a huge market for that great app (developed by an XDA member here).
Ok - here is a screen shot. Anyone else getting results like this even when the screen is off??
I got the same battery issue like you when i was on KE1.
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Ok - here is a screen shot. Anyone else getting results like this even when the screen is off??
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i have the same problem, my sgs2 is so bad whit the battery life, i cant use the phone a normally working day from 07:00 until 17:00.. and allways i see the screen in the battery chart all the time whit more then 50% battery usage.
if this problem still exist, i will sold my device, thats not for a daily use..
Same answer as always .
Your display has been the part of the phone that has used most of the power used .
NOT your display is using 70% of the battery .
jje
JJEgan said:
Same answer as always .
Your display has been the part of the phone that has used most of the power used .
NOT your display is using 70% of the battery .
jje
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but did you read the first post from the theard owner? over the night, the display stay the whole night off, and use more then 50% battery.. thats not normal sorry.. a device which runs between 4 and 6 houers its a device for fun and play, but not more..
when im driving to the work i need 1 hour and 20min.. in this time, the screen is maybe 10min on while im listening music, and in this 1 hour and 20min my battery drain is 22%..
unbelivable...
from 07:00h in the morning until 12:00h 5 hours later, my battery is on 50%. i had htc desire hd before, and this device had a 1300mah battery and it was better than samsung whit 1600mah..
im really dissapointed..
The display = the majority use of the battery fact .
OP thinks display showed using 54% of the battery overnight .
It showed as a percentage of the total power consumed that the display consumed 54% so if the battery dropped 10% of its capacity overnight then 54% of that was from turning the screen on .
I repeat the battery usage shows what has been using the battery as a percentage of the amount used it does not show the battery drain ,Or even amount of battery used in that time frame
||||||||||Drained 50% of battery today display 20% .
Drained 30 of battery yesterday display 70% ..
WHY HOW AND other stuff regarding battery usage on SGS 1 forum .
jje
after the night was the battery down 54%, e.g. have you lost %46 battery over night? Or was battery down to lets say 90% but display accounted 54% of that 10% loss???
Battery 100% to 99% that is 1% used thats clean with no battery stats .
Battery stats usage shows Display 74% .
Or the display has used 74% of the 1% used .
Its a really simple reading of the usage of the battery by the varying components its not a measure of the battery .
jje
JJEgan said:
Battery 100% to 99% that is 1% used thats clean with no battery stats .
Battery stats usage shows Display 74% .
Or the display has used 74% of the 1% used .
Its a really simple reading of the usage of the battery by the varying components its not a measure of the battery .
jje
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thats what alot of people dont understand it seems........
i think we didnt understand us..
i try it again.
we start whit 100% full battery.. you dont touch your phone over the night.. and when you stand up, you look on it and see, the battery(only a example) is on 50%.. from this 50% which battery loose, 50% goes to the display.. so, the real drain from the display is 25%, over night, and you didnt switch it on.. you think that's not too much?
m_adnan said:
i think we didnt understand us..
i try it again.
we start whit 100% full battery.. you dont touch your phone over the night.. and when you stand up, you look on it and see, the battery(only a example) is on 50%.. from this 50% which battery loose, 50% goes to the display.. so, the real drain from the display is 25%, over night, and you didnt switch it on.. you think that's not too much?
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yes its a problem. when i do that same test on another phone, display does not appear in the list. if i charge to full at night, unplug and go to bed. when i wake up 8 hours later, the top of my list says Cell Standby, WiFi, Android OS. Display does not appear.
once i use the phone for a few minutes, display jumps to the top very quickly.
RogerPodacter said:
yes its a problem. when i do that same test on another phone, display does not appear in the list. if i charge to full at night, unplug and go to bed. when i wake up 8 hours later, the top of my list says Cell Standby, WiFi, Android OS. Display does not appear.
once i use the phone for a few minutes, display jumps to the top very quickly.
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i want to share this whit you, at the moment it looks like my problem is gone.. i will take a look on it today, but right now i look on it, and after 6h over night whitout ac and any use, the display is not listed and my battery drain is in 6h 8%.
what i did:
- boot in recovery mode
- wipe data
- wipe cache
- power off
- boot in download mode
- download follow rom:
http://galaxy.androidgamer.org/Firmware/GT-I9100_XWKE7_XXKE4_OXXKE2.zip
(rom is splited in three files, pda modem and csc, csc is oxxke2 is newer than
the original one in the xwke7)
- in odin choose repartition, auto reboot and force time, i allways flash whit the
pit file, so download it to if you want
---> finish.. other steps like root is not neccesssary to describe here.
---> i will report again today in the evening.
for me its better right now.. i found the drain is to quickly again, but really much better.. something around 22h, but whitout a lot of use.. this time on the first place is the android os in the battery chart.. display is showed on the place 3..
Sorry for making another thread about high battery consumption, but I need some answers about my case.
The problem is that After I fully charge battery it rapidly get drained, about 3-5% per hour with everything turned off (wifi, gps, data, background data...).
I tried every tip from this forum and nothing helps!
Only thing that sometimes helps me is tu turn off my phone and remove battery for 5 mins. After restart battery consumption is good but after some time it start fast draining again.
Also, I noticed when battery goes down to 25% it stays at same percent for more than 12h (although I am using my phone for talks and sms).
THis problem persist in all custom roms, but i am not sure about Stock Rom (I had it only for few days)
What do You think: is it problem with roms (should I downgrade to stock 2.1 rom?) or it's hardware problem.
p.s. How long do You charge Your battery? (my battery is charged within 70 mins from 1% to 100%)
In XGin 4 ROM I have seen great battery improvement after freezing Google maps and Email.apk
You could try freezing these apps and see if the problem still persists.
Yea but camera doesn't work on XGin...
Use FroyoBread v12 by doixanh
I am using Froyobread v12. My battery can last 3 days with moderate SMS, wifi calls and games.
I used battery calibration (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867) I think it really helped a lot!
Hmm, curious problem indeed... What tricks did you try? Wipe battery stats in xRecovery? Battery calibration app? Elaborate please
Yes, I tried battery calibration and now installed, Fast Reboot.
Uninstalled: gmail, Email, maps, facebook and some other apps I don't using.
Now I am testing Airplane mode, it seems that battery life is very good in this mode (1% consumption after 3-4 hours)
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Yea but camera doesn't work on XGin...
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Of course camera works on XGin.
XGin Camera
I confirm camera works in XGIN as VGA for pics (all Ginger 2.3.4. have the same except Racht's who chose to disable it) and recording on High.
See Shpit's page:
shpitisme.blogspot.com
dragan985 said:
Yes, I tried battery calibration and now installed, Fast Reboot.
Uninstalled: gmail, Email, maps, facebook and some other apps I don't using.
Now I am testing Airplane mode, it seems that battery life is very good in this mode (1% consumption after 3-4 hours)
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Check power management to see what causes this huge drain
I don't see anything unusal in battery use:
in standby mode it's: display: 60%, cell standby: 20-30% and all other components are less than 5%
Is it possibly that high battery consumption is caused by low gsm signal?
I doubt it can cause such a high consumption, but who knows?
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I don't see anything unusal in battery use:
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Did you freeze google maps as Chris95X8 had suggested?
It worked for me.
Besides use task manager or something to check what apps are running.
map shows only 2% but during the night it took me more than 20% when the phone is not used.
oskarq said:
Did you freeze google maps as Chris95X8 had suggested?
It worked for me.
Besides use task manager or something to check what apps are running.
map shows only 2% but during the night it took me more than 20% when the phone is not used.
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as I already mentioned in earlier post I uninstalled Google maps, e-mail, gmail, gtalk and facebook apps.
Just switched to Xgin 5.3 and I was suprised with battery 'till I installed fancy widget pro. Maybe widget consumes a lot of energy! Going to test it now!
dragan985 said:
display: 60%, cell standby: 20-30% and all other components are less than 5%
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This was my problem too. I prefer to activate/deactivate wi-fi myself. I bet that in wi-fi sleep policy you don't have checked `never`. Check it and That will solve the `20-30%` to a normal percentage. In addition you can activate the `undervolt` feature.
So, I am using MIUI 2.1.12 with LorDModUE 8.6 CFS 2WCR kernel.
I have installed 4EXT Recovery Controller and CurrentWidget.
With CurrentWidget, I monitored the battery while charging until it reached 0mA (which means the battery is as full as it can get).
With 4EXT Recovery Controller I removed the batterystats.bin file.
I drained the phone until it shut itself down. Then I charged it (without powering it on) until it was full (LED was green).
I power on the phone... 99% battery.
I plug in the charger... it says 26mA (which means it would reach 0mA as in full charge in another 20-30 minutes).
WHAT THE HELL?!
This never happened while I was using the default CM kernel included in MIUI. Only happened with Tiamat and LordMod.
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Seriously, guys, what is the best way to calibrate the battery?! Perhaps I should not have let it shut itself down, but plug the charger when the phone was at 1% (which lasted for another 20-30 minutes, by the way)?!
if I don't remember it wrong the LED turns green at 90%.
afair the battery doesn't get charged during booting. which means that you probably lost the 1% during boot.
I also used the same method and got it calibrated correctly
but is their any other way too ?
monki79 said:
if I don't remember it wrong the LED turns green at 90%.
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The LED turns green on AOSP ROMs at 90%, when the phone is ON, as far as I know. When it is OFF, it works fine (goes green at 100%).
I want to hear from the developers / those that know how these codes work and stuff... Cause I don't want to look at my phone how the percentage goes down so fast, then, when it reaches 10%, I can play Pocket Legends for another 20 full minutes -.-
Formhault said:
With CurrentWidget, I monitored the battery while charging until it reached 0mA (which means the battery is as full as it can get).
With 4EXT Recovery Controller I removed the batterystats.bin file.
I drained the phone until it shut itself down. Then I charged it (without powering it on) until it was full (LED was green).
I power on the phone... 99% battery.
I plug in the charger... it says 26mA (which means it would reach 0mA as in full charge in another 20-30 minutes).
WHAT THE HELL?!
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The battery doesn't charge to full capacity first time around. When I used to calibrate the battery I would charge until it was drawing 0mA, then reboot; it would be drawing about 26mA, so I'd charge to 0mA again and reboot; it would now be drawing about 15mA, so I'd carry on charging to 0mA, reboot, repeat, repeat and repeat until it eventually continued to draw 0mA after a reboot. Then I'd delete the batterystats.bin file.
As one of Google's engineers says, deleting your battery stats isn't going to improve your battery life. I haven't done any of that for a long time now and I've noticed precisely no difference (except for the extra time I've gained by not having to wait for it to finally charge up to full capacity).
hopscotchjunkie said:
The battery doesn't charge to full capacity first time around. When I used to calibrate the battery I would charge until it was drawing 0mA, then reboot; it would be drawing about 26mA, so I'd charge to 0mA again and reboot; it would now be drawing about 15mA, so I'd carry on charging to 0mA, reboot, repeat, repeat and repeat until it eventually continued to draw 0mA after a reboot. Then I'd delete the batterystats.bin file.
As one of Google's engineers says, deleting your battery stats isn't going to improve your battery life. I haven't done any of that for a long time now and I've noticed precisely no difference (except for the extra time I've gained by not having to wait for it to finally charge up to full capacity).
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I know about Google's statement.
The battery would drain fast, then, when it reaches 1% or 5%, you would be able to use your phone like it had 30%. Just that it shows the values wrong. Calibrating the battery should fix that...
Anyway... I'm not going to struggle any further.
I'll tell what I've done;
- I have installed Battery Balibration app and CurrentWidget,
- Waited battery charging till reached 0ma,
- Removed battery stats and restarted,
- Then waited to drain battery and shut-down itself,
- I connected USB charger to PC and TURN ON THE PHONE !!
- Again waited battery to reach 0 ma,
- Then plugged off and monitored that current widget shows the range btw 3-10 !!
I don't know exactly if it helps but, maybe you should turn on your DHD while carging..
For further instructions you may qant to check this topic;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226016
Formhault said:
So, I am using MIUI 2.1.12 with LorDModUE 8.6 CFS 2WCR kernel.
I have installed 4EXT Recovery Controller and CurrentWidget.
With CurrentWidget, I monitored the battery while charging until it reached 0mA (which means the battery is as full as it can get).
With 4EXT Recovery Controller I removed the batterystats.bin file.
I drained the phone until it shut itself down. Then I charged it (without powering it on) until it was full (LED was green).
I power on the phone... 99% battery.
I plug in the charger... it says 26mA (which means it would reach 0mA as in full charge in another 20-30 minutes).
WHAT THE HELL?!
This never happened while I was using the default CM kernel included in MIUI. Only happened with Tiamat and LordMod.
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Seriously, guys, what is the best way to calibrate the battery?! Perhaps I should not have let it shut itself down, but plug the charger when the phone was at 1% (which lasted for another 20-30 minutes, by the way)?!
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Theres a better alternative, use the battery calibration app in the market
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en
It's always worked a charm for me.
knp3385 said:
Theres a better alternative, use the battery calibration app in the market
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en
It's always worked a charm for me.
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Right, with Battery Calibration i have solved my problem with battery, now i can use all day without charging.
Sorry if my question is a silly one...
what's the point in calibrating your battery? I mean... except for the stats (and I guess, the percentage in the bar), do you improve your battery life by calibrating it?
Duwie_80 said:
Sorry if my question is a silly one...
what's the point in calibrating your battery? I mean... except for the stats (and I guess, the percentage in the bar), do you improve your battery life by calibrating it?
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Some says it's irrelevant, calibrating it's just an illusion
But did calibrate my battery and my battery life is improved too terrific !!
Duwie_80 said:
Sorry if my question is a silly one...
what's the point in calibrating your battery? I mean... except for the stats (and I guess, the percentage in the bar), do you improve your battery life by calibrating it?
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fremce said:
Some says it's irrelevant, calibrating it's just an illusion
But did calibrate my battery and my battery life is improved too terrific !!
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I don't really know. It would be silly for the Android system to display the battery percentage (up there, in the status bar) by reading the batterystats.bin.
My phone's battery level drops somewhat fast, then, when it would reach 30% or so, it doesn't drop as fast. Also, at times, when I reach 10%, 5% or even 1%, I am still able to play an intensive game like Pocket Legends for an extended ammount of time (30 minutes, for example). Pocket Legends is CPU/GPU intensive and it also requires an active Internet connection, so I'd say it's pretty power hungry.
I don't really get the entire purpose of calibration. I have done it and I can't seem to notice any difference.
I'm going to do it again, now, because I switched to a Sense ROM (RunnyDrOiD). I'll monitor the battery with Battery Monitor Pro. When it reaches +0mA, I'll reboot and so forth so forth until it's drawing 0mA, although I doubt I'll resist that much time, so I'll just delete the batterystats.bin after a few reboots, when it reachs 0mA.
fremce said:
Some says it's irrelevant, calibrating it's just an illusion
But did calibrate my battery and my battery life is improved too terrific !!
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If everybody knew the meaning of the word "calibration" then nobody would talk such nonsense.
Calibration improves the accuracy of the percentage shown!
The illusion is that you improve your battery life with it....
Dlog said:
If everybody knew the meaning of the word "calibration" then nobody would talk such nonsense.
Calibration improves the accuracy of the percentage shown!
The illusion is that you improve your battery life with it....
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As I said... calibrating the battery may fix the "problem" where once you reach 1% / 5% you can use your phone like it still had ~20%.
I'm gone test it too...
Hi there people, I didn't find any battery thread similar to what I'm going to say so I'll spam a little bit
I've just found as I was fooling around this: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/PowerSki...AU_MobilePhoneAccessories&hash=item20c1a1c8ad
It suppose to be a silicon case with a battery build in(1500mah ..not bad), I don't know the dimensions but I just someone might think it as a solution to our 1230mah small battery(with this you have a total of 1730mah which is plenty)
P.S. To mods.. feel free to delete my post, I just wanted to inform the people about a solution that might be handy
evronetwork said:
Hi there people, I didn't find any battery thread similar to what I'm going to say so I'll spam a little bit
I've just found as I was fooling around this: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/PowerSki...AU_MobilePhoneAccessories&hash=item20c1a1c8ad
It suppose to be a silicon case with a battery build in(1500mah ..not bad), I don't know the dimensions but I just someone might think it as a solution to our 1230mah small battery(with this you have a total of 1730mah which is plenty)
P.S. To mods.. feel free to delete my post, I just wanted to inform the people about a solution that might be handy
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https://www.google.com/search?q=xda+powerskin+desire+hd
first link....
Hi,
probably someone else have just post this kind of question, but i don't find it , really, sorry
i have just install 2_HD2 Pdaimatejam Rom Wp7.8 OS Is the last version, i think...
the problem is that, the battery life is less then 4 hours . how can i do ? it's normal ?
thanks for replay
look my signature
I would like to add: after flashing ROM fully discharge your battery and then recharge it. After that go to registry editor on your phone and go to
Code:
[B]HKLM/system/state/batteryux/MainIntervalIndex[/B]
and change the value from 6 (or any value it shows there) to 20...now press OK! You wil see that the battery level on top has been changed!
Now again edit it and go from 20 to 80 and press OK...
RESTART YOUR PHONE AND THEN CHARGE IT!
This helps me a lot. I used my phone about 37 hrs with calls, little use of BT and WiFi.
and then you don't need to do
- when battery drop to 50% (for example), restart phone... battery status be refreshed and show around 20% more battery level.... sometimes i restart 3-4 times phone before need to charge it....
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dxdy said:
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thank you, i read...
but bt, wifi, data connection was just turn off, and battery saver turned on.
mail, fb, and other social app, not configurated.
i have set the cam now, on video...
in effects let me see 58 % of charge and 7h remaning...
i have restart the phone, and now is on 74% and a day remaning...
i hope is true , but a don't belive so much
with original WM 6.5 was not less than 2 days
thank u
Iojjj said:
I would like to add: after flashing ROM fully discharge your battery and then recharge it. After that go to registry editor on your phone and go to
Code:
[B]HKLM/system/state/batteryux/MainIntervalIndex[/B]
and change the value from 6 (or any value it shows there) to 20...now press OK! You wil see that the battery level on top has been changed!
Now again edit it and go from 20 to 80 and press OK...
RESTART YOUR PHONE AND THEN CHARGE IT!
This helps me a lot. I used my phone about 37 hrs with calls, little use of BT and WiFi.
and then you don't need to do
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i'll do it now !
thank u
Tested... i try to set 20 or another number , but on restart , i go to see and return always 10...
anyway, with 30 mins call and 30 min of data on , and 20 min wi-fi
arrive to 9 hours... better than 4, not so much..
Planet O said:
Hi,
probably someone else have just post this kind of question, but i don't find it , really, sorry
i have just install 2_HD2 Pdaimatejam Rom Wp7.8 OS Is the last version, i think...
the problem is that, the battery life is less then 4 hours . how can i do ? it's normal ?
thanks for replay
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haha, you are joking right?
where exactly did you look?
how about google 'hd2 windows 7 battery'
there are +3000000 hits and the first page has several links to xda here and also youtube videos to watch
this is a common problem for all these windows 7 roms.
the registry tips posted in below and also try the 'camera trick' which works for me
Planet O
well, the main trick is to discharge to 0 and than re-charge battery. My battery drain today is about 1% per hour. Battery consumption is very individually.
P.S. I installed hardware radio 2.12 and software radio 5.51. This cimbination is much better for me.
Hello,
i don't want to start new thread about my problem, so i pin here.
When i was thinking about to buy HD2 i didn't realize what i am going into, but now i have to continue.
Well everything is fine except damn powerdrain. It is normal to have on high usage 300-500 mA drain? Well i understand this usage when playing for example gta3 on nativeSD android, but seriously...?
Normal work drains my battery on android in 4 hours (NativeSD nexusHD2 - Wifi, exploring web, youtube, facebook etc) with about 150-300mA usage. Well i have to admit that currentwidget cannot show drain properly, but what it shows look really insane.
Also i found on WP7 more outrageous drain. I plugged in charger to HD2 and launched sims3. The battery was at 5%, but gaming made my battery dead. I had to buy external battery charger to apply some power, because battery was too weak to hang in boot time.
My primary questions:
1. Is this high drain normal?
2. Is 80mA charging power normal (using HTC charger)?
3. If i flash android to nand, will power consumpion on high usage be less?
Hy Guys,
I have a problem with my Defy's battery (not exactly with it.)
If I fully charge it, it "drains the battery" fast and when it says 1% reaming, it lasts about half of the battery time.
So, I tried to use battery calibrators, delete the batterystats file, but nothing. My battery is new and as I said IT LASTS A LONG TIME? BUT WITH BAD PERCENTAGES.
Please help me, because it's so damn annoying
Battery
ToMpI97 said:
Hy Guys,
I have a problem with my Defy's battery (not exactly with it.)
If I fully charge it, it "drains the battery" fast and when it says 1% reaming, it lasts about half of the battery time.
So, I tried to use battery calibrators, delete the batterystats file, but nothing. My battery is new and as I said IT LASTS A LONG TIME? BUT WITH BAD PERCENTAGES.
Please help me, because it's so damn annoying
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I think best combo is full discharge + full%charge (and 1-2 hours more connected after 100%) and then reboot in recovery to clean battery stats.
The battery need autocalibrate with full charging cycles.
please search Battery Calibration app on Play. Use it after dropping battery stats.
I got this screenshot of my battery drain. There are random drops and I didn't use my phone at that time.