Battery Percent Wrong? - Droid X General

I am running Sttwl Droid 2.3.7 on my Dx. For the first couple days everything was smooth. Then i started noticing that my battery meter percentage was only going down and charging by intervals of 10. I have let the phone die, and then charge to 100 percent in hopes of recalibrating the battery. I have also cleared battery stats. Any idea of why this may be happening?
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Try a different ROM to rule out battery failure.
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That was supposed to say Steel Droid. And I have tried a few different ROMs and even a different battery. I have never seen anything like this.

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battery getting hot

its been doing it for the past 2 months or so just didnt kno if it was normal.. cuz I never really realized it with my last 3 vibrants.. but I might not of been paying attention tho... But my phone is getting up to 121° while on the charger just sitting there
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What rom are you using?
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Axura
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I'm on stock JI6 and I've been noticing my battery getting hot as well.
Gonna try using my spare (and never used before other new) battery and see if that remedies anything.
I'm on stock JI6 also. Never had a problem with hot battery until...
I played Quake 3 Arena for about 30 minutes. Afterwards I noticed my battery was hot and battery life was terrible (from full charge to about 30%) sitting idle overnight. This happened for about 3 days.
I used Astro Explorer and closed Q3A process, no change. Rebooted phone and no more hot battery and normal battery life, all is well again. Strange. I guess some processes are 'hidden' and can't be closed without reboot.
I was getting a hot battery while running TW Core kernel. I flashed JAC XMOD 1.1 kernel and my battery has stayed cool.
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My Battery Percentage Increases...

First of all, I know what most people will say: wipe battery stats and condition the battery, but I'm too lazy.
So recently I've been noticing that sometimes my battery charge percentage goes up rather than down. For example, tonight I put my phone in my pocket at 18% battery left. I watched some tv and checked it again ~1.5 hours later to find that it was now at 32%. I've seen this happen on occasion before, but never such a significant jump.
Anybody have any clue as to why it would do this? Other than the fact that my battery stats are needing to be wiped. idk just seems weird to me
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thomasskull666 said:
First of all, I know what most people will say: wipe battery stats and condition the battery, but I'm too lazy.
So recently I've been noticing that sometimes my battery charge percentage goes up rather than down. For example, tonight I put my phone in my pocket at 18% battery left. I watched some tv and checked it again ~1.5 hours later to find that it was now at 32%. I've seen this happen on occasion before, but never such a significant jump.
Anybody have any clue as to why it would do this? Other than the fact that my battery stats are needing to be wiped. idk just seems weird to me
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Sometimes that happens after a random reboot, where when it comes back up, it has "dropped battery." Then it realizes it isn't actually that low, so the battery meter will climb till it actually equals the battery. Then it'll start dropping again.
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butler360 said:
You rooted your wife?
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That was happening to me on Clean GB, I reboot my phone every 4 days or so and my percentage would drop significantly after booting back up, then start increasing. I've never wiped my battery stats. I'm using another stock-like ROM so I'll see if it happens again.
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worldwidepmp said:
That was happening to me on Clean GB, I reboot my phone every 4 days or so and my percentage would drop significantly after booting back up, then start increasing. I've never wiped my battery stats. I'm using another stock-like ROM so I'll see if it happens again.
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When you reboot do it while plugged into a charger and that won't happen. It is a glitch in CWM and battery stats.
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thomasskull666 said:
First of all, I know what most people will say: wipe battery stats and condition the battery, but I'm too lazy.
So recently I've been noticing that sometimes my battery charge percentage goes up rather than down. For example, tonight I put my phone in my pocket at 18% battery left. I watched some tv and checked it again ~1.5 hours later to find that it was now at 32%. I've seen this happen on occasion before, but never such a significant jump.
Anybody have any clue as to why it would do this? Other than the fact that my battery stats are needing to be wiped. idk just seems weird to me
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Magic pockets?
The Root said:
Magic pockets?
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Haha I wish
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thomasskull666 said:
First of all, I know what most people will say: wipe battery stats and condition the battery, but I'm too lazy.
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That's your problem. /thread
k0nane said:
That's your problem. /thread
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Lol
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"Conditioning your battery" after wiping battery stats takes nothing more than regular usage of your phone. All the people that say you have to do all that stuff after calibration are just recommending it because it causes your phone to adjust faster.
Just charge it all the way and use battery calibration to wipe stats. Your battery life will take a few days of use to improve to good levels, but it works and you don't have to do anything other than what you normally do with your phone.

And I thought it was battery drain

After flashing Ics my battery couldn't seem to stay high so one day, I took the liberty of finishing the battery and...
THIS IS THE PURFECT EXAMPLE OF WROMG BATTERY INFO C:
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LOL XD
This pic is just soooooo funny. I have no clue why but looking at that makes me laugh XD
very very wrong battery readings.....
happens lots of times after flashing.....weirdest thing that was happening to me was battery rapidly falling from 50 to 30% and than slowly growing to 40%.....
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what kernel are you using? if it the devilkernel in the advanced options do wipe battery stats
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Lol
Sometimes battery stats behave strange
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gaspernemec said:
happens lots of times after flashing.....weirdest thing that was happening to me was battery rapidly falling from 50 to 30% and than slowly growing to 40%.....
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Yes, I have to agree. This has also happened to me. I have actually had this happened when I turned my phone off one day. Before turning it off it had 60% battery, after a minute I turned it on and it said 20% battery. Also, has it happened to you that you charge it leave a couple of hours and when you unplug it rapidly falls to 70% or less? LOL! But it is nothing a full charge and batterystats.bin wipe wont fix.
Marcxd2214 said:
what kernel are you using? if it the devilkernel in the advanced options do wipe battery stats
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Wiping battery starts has nothing to do with reported battery percentage. Similar results can be obtained by setting your phone face up on the coffee table, watching any random show on tv, and doing Zumba for 30 minutes. In other words... none.
Battery stats, which is only a list of the apps that have put a demand on the battery, is already cleared each and every time the os is rebooted
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Strange
Yea, it happen to mine too after ICS 4.0.3 upgrade, does anyone can help?
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jessietwf said:
Yea, it happen to mine too after ICS 4.0.3 upgrade, does anyone can help?
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This is what I have read on the XDA forums and it has worked for me.
Completely charge your phone to 100% (Full battery charge) without unplugging. Once it is charged, without unplugging it, reboot to recovery and wipe battery stats in the ADVANCED section. As soon as your wipe it, very quickly unplug the phone. (as fast as possible). Once you do this, reboot your phone and completely drain it to until it turns off and you cannot turn it back on unless is plugged. Once it is drained charge it completely full withot unpluggin it or turning it on.(Best time to do this is at night, since you are probably not going to use it while you sleep). After that just use it daily. You have to give it a couple of days so the battery syncs up. Hope I helped out!
Supermannypr said:
This is what I have read on the XDA forums and it has worked for me.
Completely charge your phone to 100% (Full battery charge) without unplugging. Once it is charged, without unplugging it, reboot to recovery and wipe battery stats in the ADVANCED section. As soon as your wipe it, very quickly unplug the phone. (as fast as possible). Once you do this, reboot your phone and completely drain it to until it turns off and you cannot turn it back on unless is plugged. Once it is drained charge it completely full withot unpluggin it or turning it on.(Best time to do this is at night, since you are probably not going to use it while you sleep). After that just use it daily. You have to give it a couple of days so the battery syncs up. Hope I helped out!
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No offense, but what you have read is incorrect and is rooted in a misunderstanding about how the os and li-ion batteries work.
1. Wiping battery stats does nothing pertaining to charge indication. The file cleared is an already blank file that lists nothing more than a list of the apps that have consumed power. This file is cleared by the is on every reboot already.
2. Completely draining the battery shortens its serviceable life.
Any "results" that are seen by doing the above are merely attributable to the placebo effect.
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Time for a new battery or is this normal?

One phone call
20-30 texts
Browsing xda for 15 minutes
And like ten minutes of music
Took phone off charger at 7:17am. Its 12:14 and its in the red!
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How old is the battery? You can pick up OEM Samsung replacements for like $7.00 on amazon. I have 3 myself.
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Its the same battery since new. Yea I order two just now
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Have you tried using a different kernel? Matr1x and marmite work best for me!
Well running pacman rom with matrix so gonna see how that does
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Did you turn off auto-sync?
Looks normal to me lol... I'm getting horrible life... My 4G never turns off and I'll get maybe 3hrs screen-on time... Running stock 4.2
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since you're talking about battery issues, idk if this is "normal" or not, but just now, my battery was at 38%, so i started to plug it in, tried doing a reboot and when it finished rebooting within seconds, all of a sudden, the battery jumps up to 60%...i think my phone's battery is fu**ed up
explorer-10 said:
since you're talking about battery issues, idk if this is "normal" or not, but just now, my battery was at 38%, so i started to plug it in, tried doing a reboot and when it finished rebooting within seconds, all of a sudden, the battery jumps up to 60%...i think my phone's battery is fu**ed up
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that always happen to me too ... deleting stats isn't usefull ... maybe it's a battery problem ... my battery isn't perfect but it can make about 2 - 2.30 screen on time and a total of 14 hours all sync active ... a newer battery could give me probably some more juice
Yea same result running matrix so I think its the battery
Hopefully.....
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I forgot to mention that my battery was replaced a few weeks ago!
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using straight aosp 4.2 with any kernel gets me at best, 5 hours of standby time. I noticed this about a month ago and immediately started looking for ways to prolong my battery life. What seems to be working best for me is disabling mobile data when I'm not using it. Just this one setting gives me a boost from 4-5 hours in standby to well over 12 hours of normal use (of course, with the exception of any web service). I have come home from 13 hour shifts and still had 30-40% battery left several times!! However, this only happens if I disable mobile data.
Something needs to be done....and QUICKLY!!! My phone is pretty damn well useless for anything involving internet connectivity unless I'm using wifi
btw, my battery is about 14 months old.
I'm pretty sure the battery drain is from 4.2, when I was running 4.1 I had no issues

Self charging battery?

Hey, can someone explain me this?
I charged my phone to atleast 24% begore i went to bed cause last time i tested battery when i sleep, the battery dropped 20% in 10 hours, but now i charged it to 24% and when i woke up today it had slowly increased to 32%... what the heck? Can someone explain this to me?
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andsa said:
Hey, can someone explain me this?
I charged my phone to atleast 24% begore i went to bed cause last time i tested battery when i sleep, the battery dropped 20% in 10 hours, but now i charged it to 24% and when i woke up today it had slowly increased to 32%... what the heck? Can someone explain this to me?
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wrong sub section but in answer, my s2 done that all the time almost after flashing a rom.
could start off at 100%, flash a rom and itd be at say 25% then start building up again toward its correct %. no biggy, its kinda normal :good:
Wrong section to post this but this problem also happens on my s2, it is something wrong with the fuel gauge. Just do regular charging and discharging and it should return to normal.
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Your battery has a problem. Cause of overcharging.
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If you've flashed a new rom, often the history of battery values and voltages get messed up. So its not really sure what percentage of battery is left when the battery is at X volts for example. Usually a complete discharge followed by a full charge should recalibrate the battery monitoring.
ilabs said:
If you've flashed a new rom, often the history of battery values and voltages get messed up. So its not really sure what percentage of battery is left when the battery is at X volts for example. Usually a complete discharge followed by a full charge should recalibrate the battery monitoring.
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The thing is i got the phone on wednesday last week and it's on stock rom.
andsa said:
The thing is i got the phone on wednesday last week and it's on stock rom.
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Try a few complete charge cycles. Hopefully it should fix itself coz its not really uncommon.
you should download battery calibration app
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