Calibrate Xperia Arc battery - Xperia Arc General

After upgrade from DoomKernel v19 to v20, my battery go's from 100% to 94% in just a few minutes. I tried a few calibrate tools, even deleted the batterystats.bin file whit rootexplore, but nothing worked. So i looked around on XDA, i found a post from userzeppelinrox. I tried his method, even it is for a other phone, but it doesn't work.
I tried around for two hours, and finely it worked, and it looks that my battery isn't drained so fast as before. I don't know if this work for other Xperia Arc User, or how much your battery calibrate wrong, but i tell what i did.
In de post from zeppelinrox, zeppelinrox said:
1. charge up to 100% and leave the phone plugged in.
2. Delete /data/system/batterystats.bin
3. Remove back cover.
4. Press Power and choose to reboot normally.
5. When the screen goes black and the lights go out, pull out the battery before you get the M logo. It will probably still work after the M logo shows up but that's how I do it.
I did almost the same, but little different.
1. Charge up to 100% and leave the phone plugged in.
2. Delete /data/system/batterystats.bin (use RootExplore, or something like that).
3. Remove your phone's back cover.
4. Power down your phone.
5. Power up your phone. When you see the Sony Ericsson logo starting, pull out your battery. Whait until your phone ask you to unlock your sim-card, then put your battery back in (don't whait to long, or your phone powers down).
6. You will see that your battery isn't fully charged (the mine was at 98%). Let it charge to 100% (the mine was 100% charged and hat 4178 mV). I let the phone plugged in after charging, for 15 minutes. Don't ask me why, but after 15 minutes he still tells he is charged 100% (still plugged in), but the mine said he have only 4152 mV. Now delete /data/system/batterystats.bin again, and let your phone plugged in while doing this. Now power down your phone again.
7. Power up your phone and pull out your battery again when you see the boot logo from Sony Ericsson.
8. Put your battery back when your phone ask you to unlock your sim-card, and you see again that your phone isn't fully charged (the mine shows 92%). Let the phone charge again, and after a while you see he jumps to 100% (the mine jumps from 97% to 100%). You see that the mV is higher, the mine was it (my mV was 4192).
9. Let the phone plugged in and power down your phone. After power it down, pull out the cable and place back the phones back cover. Now start your phone, and it is calibrated.
I don't know if this works for other Arc users, but try it on your own risk, because I'm not responsible if you damage your phone.
I suggest to make a backup from your phone, because your phone can suddenly power down when you don't put your battery back in time. Me happens it, and a few apps where gone after that, but i hat a backup, created whit Titanium Backup.
If someone don't understand me good, sorry for that, but my English isn't so good.

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Galaxy S wont' able to turn on after battery drained

Hi all !
I have a serious problem when my Galaxy S responses nothing (completely sleep in silence) with any tries to power it on. This happened right after running out of battery, then I plug it to wall for about 1 hour charging, but from that time I can not power it on again (the screen is silently dark).
Please help me to solve this case, and any of your solutions would be highly appreciated.
I would take the battery out for a minute and put it again. Of course plug the powercord out too. Phone should start then.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
I have tried such operations :
1. Take battery out; push it in again; then push VOLUMNE DOWN+HOME+ POWER: but nothing is happended.
2. Take battery out; push it in again; then push VOLUMNE UP+HOME+ POWER: but nothing is happended too.
3. Take battery out; push it in again; then push VOLUMNE DOWN+ POWER: but nothing is happended
So, what should i do now ? is my phone bricked after battery drained out ?
My ROM is stock ROM, and I have done LagFix by RyanZ, is there any problem related to the playing Logo at bootime causing it can't be on again ?
Very important: after about 10 minutes taking battery out, push battery again, then plug charger into phone, there is a circular loading symbol appear in one second, then it disappear. Is there anybody know what does this loading symbol mean ?
Had the same problem, simply plug the charger into the mains and your phone. Leave for 15 minutes until the battery thing comes on, then unplug, boot, and charge.
I have done this, but i see nothing when plug-in the charger. No big battery icon at the center of screen as normal. Still unable to turn it on.
read this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=722862
then you will understand why.
get a stand alone wall charger, instead of charging inside the phone
i got this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=722862

[Q] Weird Battery Issue

I have drained, reset, charged, drained, calibrated, reset to original rom, etc etc etc... No matter which ROM i use (currently on Trips MIUI103) my x10 will not go higher than 90%, then, even though it remains plugged in (and shows charging in Juiceplotter) it slowly drains until empty. Makes it difficult to plug in at night before I go to sleep, and to wake up to find it empty.
(At night I turn off Cell radio, 3g, wifi, bt, gps, etc etc etc) Does the same if the phone is off completely.
Any one have any ideas - it is not the battery, as i use my wifes battery and the same thing happens in my phone, but not in hers.
Well you may have a defective chipset or battery pack.
I suggest return it to SE.
Are you 100% that your apps or firmware isn't causing it?
Sounds like your phone is getting a run off current..
Does the Green "fully charged" LED ever show up.
Yup. Green LED is on at 91% right now (the highest I have ever seen it). and if I wait, it will be green at 90%, 89% etc
Use the phone for one week without reseting or wiping the battery cache..
run it down all the way even when it reaches 1% leave it..
the moment it shuts down.
begin recharging..
"don't use the phone"
till the green led comes on.. leave it a extra 30 mins.
repeat this twice!
then use it normally for the rest of the week..
this time charging at 15% when the phone notifies you and leaving it at least 30 mins after the the green led comes on...
if this does not work... ship back to SE.
Now battery doesn't charge at all (either the regular BST41 or the CSino 2600mah)
Luckily, under warranty, Rogers is sending one to replace. should be here today..
try removing the battery, then plugging it in (without the battery) for about 10-15 minutes.
unplug, put the battery in, plug it back in to charge.
As far as I know, when you calibrate the battery (charge full, the wipe stats, back to 88% then recharge, 2-3 times), I never got 100% after it (always back to 88%, so I have to charge it up to 100%).
Try to wipe again battery stats from xrecovery
Check also the Wolfbreak's CM v054 (dev section), on the first post there's a trick for battery troubles, you might try it
Edit : check also your charging supply and use as possible the stock SE charger. Why ? Because x10 often charges bad/not/slowly with other charger, most of them use a lower mAh charging and the x10 loves high mAh

[Q] black screen and white stripes (CM9)

Update4: (14.01.2012 1244): This method didn't work. I sent my Defy back to Amazon and they repaired it under warranty
They will send it back to me next week. It seems that it was a production failure.
Anyway, thank you very much for your help cengiran!
Hi Guys!
I do have a big problem with my Defy.
I updated the CM9 onto the newest version and had to activate my google-acc. I didnt finish the smartphone registration and put my Defy to the side. Today morning the battery was empty and I reloaded the battery. After that I turned the device on but the only thing it shows is a black screen with stripes (even in cwm and bootloader). Does anyone know how to fix my Defy??? The Defy boots completely but the screen remains crappy ;(
Please help me!!!
With best regards
HT
Edit1: (27.12. 1421): New day, same problem ;( Still found nothing helpful...
Update: (27.12. 1736): Flashed a new fixed sbf with RSD Lite. Still the same problem. Could it be a hardware problem??? LCD-Display broken or stuff like that? Didnt throw the phone through the room like others (^^);
Update2: (29.12. 0801): Error still remains... Is their anyone who had the same problem or who can help me? Do I have to replace my Defy? Might there be problems with Amazon (warranty) because of root and stuff like that?
Update3: (30.12. 2217): Now trying the tip by cengiran:
cengiran said:
hi there,
i have the same issue but not due to CM9 installation but due to hardware issue. judging by your writing, this has nothing to do with software and so hopefully this helps.
My screen is also black at boot with some part of it are stripes (and some bad white and blue square w/ noise) and looks like a broken LCD monitor.
This is due to hardware malfunction (probably your battery went bad) in my defy the battery have some water damage and somehow it screws up the voltage regulator or the grounding part, but does boot with the correct screen using some techniques on every boot.
Try this solutions:
1. completely discharge your battery, take it off, hold the phone power button for 30 seconds to make sure every power stored in phone is out. Put the battery back on and connect the charger while the phone is still off. DO NOT turn the phone on. Your screen will look all mess up when showing the green battery, wait until 3hours and take a look at your screen again. In my case, the screen showing the the battery charging image is clear again after i did this. - this is to make sure that your screen is actually okay. Try turning your phone now and see...if its still bad then go to step 2.
2. turn phone off, open the battery case. Connect phone to charger again without turning it on. The phone will do its regular boot up until showing you the battery icon again. when the battery icon is there, PULL the BATTERY out of the phone (the charger cable is still connected to the phone). the phone will reboot itself with the correct screen usually, if it doesnt boot itself, quickly pull charger cable and reconect it again (with the battery still detached from your phone).
mind you if you get to the okay screen, this will not boot your phone, this will bring you as far to the battery icon with a question mark (we know for sure is just battery issue now). regardless screen is okay or not, proceed to step 3.
3. turn off phone, battery out of the phone, and press the power button for 30 seconds. release power button and re-insert battery and boot. (usually still bad but this is to ground any left voltage in there). after it boots (with the bad screen, if the screen is okay then proceed to using your phone like usual) before the LED lights blinks (the 2nd.init lights) pull out battery, press the power button for 2 seconds, re- insert, and boot. repeat this as necessary until it boots with an okay screen.
tips:
battery empty is for step 1 only, steps 2 and 3 needs power form the battery.
You can actually go to step 3 if you wishes, but my experience is by using step 2, it will talke less retry until i boot with the okay screen (i need to do this everytime i restart the phone mind you, so its a daily thing) .
the LAST tip: there no rules of thumb on how many retries it needs, if you have been retrying for 20 minutes on step 3 with no avail, revert back to step 1 or 2 and retry step 3. If this is sill fails, then you might need to consider purchasing a new battery, or take it for a repair!
Im still waiting for my new battery, but now it only takes me 5-6 tries before it boots correctly, in the apst it took me 15 minutes of constantly retrying so be patient, but still need to set a line when to give up!
Hope this helps and good luck
how does it go?
to completely discharge your battery is tricky...and actually not recommended because i heard our kind of battery should never went completely gone, it can mess up the battery capacity. i suggested it because thays what i did and in this case, battery cost much less then actual repair,,call it collateral if you will.
heres what i did to completly discharge it...after the phonse turned off automatically due to battery running out, it still have around 2% in it so reboot and enter 2ndinit/boot loader. let it stay there until the phone turned off on its own again. in 2nd init, the phone wont turn off screen so it will continue using whatever is left in the battery. keep n mind that even at very small amount of juice left, this process can takes up 2hrs or more.
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...can't post a photo of the screen...
Update4: (14.01.2012 1244): This method didn't work. I sent my Defy back to Amazon and they repaired it under warranty
They will send it back to me next week. It seems that it was a production failure.
Anyway, thank you very much for your help cengiran!
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pushagain;(
hi there,
i have the same issue but not due to CM9 installation but due to hardware issue. judging by your writing, this has nothing to do with software and so hopefully this helps.
My screen is also black at boot with some part of it are stripes (and some bad white and blue square w/ noise) and looks like a broken LCD monitor.
This is due to hardware malfunction (probably your battery went bad) in my defy the battery have some water damage and somehow it screws up the voltage regulator or the grounding part, but does boot with the correct screen using some techniques on every boot.
Try this solutions:
1. completely discharge your battery, take it off, hold the phone power button for 30 seconds to make sure every power stored in phone is out. Put the battery back on and connect the charger while the phone is still off. DO NOT turn the phone on. Your screen will look all mess up when showing the green battery, wait until 3hours and take a look at your screen again. In my case, the screen showing the the battery charging image is clear again after i did this. - this is to make sure that your screen is actually okay. Try turning your phone now and see...if its still bad then go to step 2.
2. turn phone off, open the battery case. Connect phone to charger again without turning it on. The phone will do its regular boot up until showing you the battery icon again. when the battery icon is there, PULL the BATTERY out of the phone (the charger cable is still connected to the phone). the phone will reboot itself with the correct screen usually, if it doesnt boot itself, quickly pull charger cable and reconect it again (with the battery still detached from your phone).
mind you if you get to the okay screen, this will not boot your phone, this will bring you as far to the battery icon with a question mark (we know for sure is just battery issue now). regardless screen is okay or not, proceed to step 3.
3. turn off phone, battery out of the phone, and press the power button for 30 seconds. release power button and re-insert battery and boot. (usually still bad but this is to ground any left voltage in there). after it boots (with the bad screen, if the screen is okay then proceed to using your phone like usual) before the LED lights blinks (the 2nd.init lights) pull out battery, press the power button for 2 seconds, re- insert, and boot. repeat this as necessary until it boots with an okay screen.
tips:
battery empty is for step 1 only, steps 2 and 3 needs power form the battery.
You can actually go to step 3 if you wishes, but my experience is by using step 2, it will talke less retry until i boot with the okay screen (i need to do this everytime i restart the phone mind you, so its a daily thing) .
the LAST tip: there no rules of thumb on how many retries it needs, if you have been retrying for 20 minutes on step 3 with no avail, revert back to step 1 or 2 and retry step 3. If this is sill fails, then you might need to consider purchasing a new battery, or take it for a repair!
Im still waiting for my new battery, but now it only takes me 5-6 tries before it boots correctly, in the apst it took me 15 minutes of constantly retrying so be patient, but still need to set a line when to give up!
Hope this helps and good luck
Hi cengiran,
thank you very much for your help. I will try this immediately. The only problem I do have that my battery doesn't want to go empty XD
There are so many people who want their battery to last as long as possible and now I want to get it empty a quick as possible XD Irony
Since 26th December 1004 pm my Defy runs with one single battery charge XD I think thats a pretty good battery life for a smartphone ;D
If your tips don't work I will sent it back to Amazon and hopefully they send me a new one or repair my old one.
Thanks again and I will post if your method works.
With best regards
HT
P.S. Amazing that this thread is the 1st Google search result for this problem XD
how does it go?
to completely discharge your battery is tricky...and actually not recommended because i heard our kind of battery should never went completely gone, it can mess up the battery capacity. i suggested it because thays what i did and in this case, battery cost much less then actual repair,,call it collateral if you will.
heres what i did to completly discharge it...after the phonse turned off automatically due to battery running out, it still have around 2% in it so reboot and enter 2ndinit/boot loader. let it stay there until the phone turned off on its own again. in 2nd init, the phone wont turn off screen so it will continue using whatever is left in the battery. keep n mind that even at very small amount of juice left, this process can takes up 2hrs or more.
Finally! My battery is empty
Now I try your method and see what happens
This method didn't work. I sent my Defy back to Amazon and they repaired it under warranty
They will send it back to me next week. It seems that it was a production failure.
Thanks anyway!
With best regards
HT
cengiran said:
This is due to hardware malfunction (probably your battery went bad) ...
Try this solutions:
....
2. turn phone off, open the battery case. Connect phone to charger again without turning it on. The phone will do its regular boot up until showing you the battery icon again. when the battery icon is there, PULL the BATTERY out of the phone (the charger cable is still connected to the phone). the phone will reboot itself with the correct screen usually, if it doesnt boot itself, quickly pull charger cable and reconect it again (with the battery still detached from your phone).
mind you if you get to the okay screen, this will not boot your phone, this will bring you as far to the battery icon with a question mark (we know for sure is just battery issue now). regardless screen is okay or not, proceed to step 3.
3. turn off phone, battery out of the phone, and press the power button for 30 seconds. release power button and re-insert battery and boot. (usually still bad but this is to ground any left voltage in there). after it boots (with the bad screen, if the screen is okay then proceed to using your phone like usual) before the LED lights blinks (the 2nd.init lights) pull out battery, press the power button for 2 seconds, re- insert, and boot. repeat this as necessary until it boots with an okay screen.
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Thanks a lot, a mix of these two works for me !
My problem arise after a month that I switched off defy for replacing it with a new smartphone (Xiaomi M2S).
I removed battery to force it to switch off, because I couldn't see anything.
I replaced the battery, I connected the phone to charger and after ten seconds (more or less) I removed the battery.
At this point I can see the Motorola logo. I've re-inserted the battery and it shows that it is at 97%.
For sure, the lcd is working

Red light of death after Antutu Benchmark

The title pretty much explains it.
My N4 died on me today after running an Antutu Benchmark. I was running on Android 4.4 with the latest Fauxkernel (v29).
I can't boot it up anymore without the charging cable plugged in. When the charging cable is plugged in, the LED flashes red once, the display turns on and shows me the battery charging indicator and turns off just a couple seconds later also with the LED flashing red once. If I attempt to turn it on, the Google sign appears but the phone turns off immediately after that and once again, say Hi! to the red LED.
Pretty much tried everything so far, charging my battery, getting into the recovery menu, pushing down the power+VOL Up buttons for 60 seconds, etc. Nothing helped.
Maybe you guys know any way to fix it? I don't wanna open my device nor replace the battery if possible.
Thanks in advance.
2 ways to fix it. first, leave your phone on the charger for 3-4 hours. thwn try to boot it into the bootloader and press turn off the phone. let it charge further. if that doesnt work, remove the back cover, remove the battery, then clip the battery back in. the second method works 100%.
simms22 said:
2 ways to fix it. first, leave your phone on the charger for 3-4 hours. thwn try to boot it into the bootloader and press turn off the phone. let it charge further. if that doesnt work, remove the back cover, remove the battery, then clip the battery back in. the second method works 100%.
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I can get into the bootloader but once I select power off, the phone just turns on again and shows me the battery charging indicator. Not sure if it's supposed to be like that but the indicator is completely filled so that would probably mean the battery is full.
Not sure if I have the right screwdrivers to open the back.
xSalamanderman said:
I can get into the bootloader but once I select power off, the phone just turns on again and shows me the battery charging indicator. Not sure if it's supposed to be like that but the indicator is completely filled so that would probably mean the battery is full.
Not sure if I have the right screwdrivers to open the back.
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the reason for rlod is that the phone thinks that it is under 0% battery. leave it on the indicator that is filled, thats a good start. when that filled indicator starts the reguler behavior that it looks like its filling(up and down), thats when your phone will be fixed. leave it charging for a few hours.
simms22 said:
the reason for rlod is that the phone thinks that it is under 0% battery. leave it on the indicator that is filled, thats a good start. when that filled indicator starts the reguler behavior that it looks like its filling(up and down), thats when your phone will be fixed. leave it charging for a few hours.
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Alright, I'll try that out. It's kinda annoying though that the display turns on every few seconds and turns off again but if it's going to work later that'll be worth it. Thanks alot!
if worst comes to worst, remove the battery and plug the battery back in. this will "reset" the battery(like a normal battery pull for devices with a removable battery).
seems the post may drive users a mis-understanding to AnTuTu Benchmark, I will ask our engineer to double check.

device switches off at 15%

I've been sing moto x play for the past 10 months. but recently im facing this issue. my phone switches off at 15% itself. usually itll work till 4% but now it automatically switch off at 15%. any1 else facing this issue? is there any fix for this?
im running stock android 6.0.1
araavind_s said:
I've been sing moto x play for the past 10 months. but recently im facing this issue. my phone switches off at 15% itself. usually itll work till 4% but now it automatically switch off at 15%. any1 else facing this issue? is there any fix for this?
im running stock android 6.0.1
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Last month i faced the same issue and this mostly happens when flashing/changing rom or kernel or could also happen when you dont charge your phone above 90℅. The battery stats file needs to be refreshed. Charge your phone to 100℅ and dont unplug it. When it reach 100℅, unplug and plug the power cord in and out a few times (wait a few minutes before unplug again) to make sure it reach 100℅. If everything goes well it will show the correct battery levels again.
Battery Calibration Problem
No need to worry man...this happened with me too..its just a battery calibration problem
If non-rooted
1.Discharge your phone fully until it turns itself off.
2. Turn it on again and let it turn itself off.
3. Plug your phone into a charger and, without turning it on, let it charge until the on-screen or LED indicator says 100 percent.
4. Unplug your charger.
5. Turn your phone on. It's likely that the battery indicator won't say 100 percent, so plug the charger back in (leave your phone on) and continue charging until it says 100 percent on-screen as well.
6. Unplug your phone and restart it. If it doesn't say 100 percent plug the charger back in until it says 100 percent on screen.
7. Repeat this cycle until it says 100 percent (or as close as you think it's going to get) when you start it up without being plugged in.
8. Now, let your battery discharge all the way down to 0 percent and let your phone turn off again.
9. Fully charge the battery one more time without interruption and you should have reset the Android system's battery percentage.
If rooted then just follow these steps:
1. Discharge your phone fully until it turns itself off.
2. Turn it on and let it turn off again.
3. Fully Charge the Switched off phone.
4. Unplug your charger.
5. Turn your phone on. It's likely that the battery indicator won't say 100 percent, so plug the charger back in and continue charging until it says 100 percent on the screen as well.
6. Unplug your phone and restart it. If it doesn't say 100 percent, plug the charger back in until it says 100 percent on screen.
7. You want to repeat this cycle until it says 100 percent (or as close as you think it's going to get) when you start it up without being plugged in.
8. Now, install the Battery Calibration app by IMobS Ltd(Available On PlayStore) and, before you launch it, make sure your battery is at 100 percent again, then restart.
9. Immediately launch the app and Re calibrate your battery.
10. Once you've calibrated your battery, discharge it all the way down to 0 percent and let your phone turn off again.
11. Fully charge the battery one more time without interruption while it's switched off, and the Android system's battery percentage will be reset.
Source:Google,AndroidPit ,Xda-Developers various posts
IF above methods doesn't work. Take backup of important files and Reinstall rom
there is a xposwd mod called disablecriticalbatteryshutdown.maybe it will help..
Peace to all
my phone switched itself off once from 60% when I was testing the coffee kernel. I'm not saying the kernel caused it but I reflashed to optimus and never had similar issue.

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