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My Vibrant with full charge died in less than 3 hours. During this period I've only checked email a couple times. No surfing, txting, etc. whatsoever on my side.
I had it on charge all night. I am sure it was charging because when I plugged it in last night it almost got no juice left and then battery displayed full in the morning. I thought; we might have lost power since it was raining last night but that's also impossible since the digital clock in the bedroom never reset.
I came work around 8AM, put my phone on my desk as usual and I got battery low message around 10 AM and finally it died before 11 AM. I did not install any new apps in the last 10 days.
What might be the cause? Anybody else had this problem before?
Kernel, which?
battery needs to be recalibrated.
@kangxi: stock kernel
@proresearch: how do I do it? What's the reason for a need to recalibrate?
Like couple months ago I was able to use my phone unplugged from 7AM to 11PM give or take some. Recently my mileage started dropping for no obvious reason. Nowadays it dies around 8PM. It might be the NOLED app consuming some or maybe brightness settings. On top, today's short battery life. What's going on???
anilo said:
My Vibrant with full charge died in less than 3 hours. During this period I've only checked email a couple times. No surfing, txting, etc. whatsoever on my side.
I had it on charge all night. I am sure it was charging because when I plugged it in last night it almost got no juice left and then battery displayed full in the morning. I thought; we might have lost power since it was raining last night but that's also impossible since the digital clock in the bedroom never reset.
I came work around 8AM, put my phone on my desk as usual and I got battery low message around 10 AM and finally it died before 11 AM. I did not install any new apps in the last 10 days.
What might be the cause? Anybody else had this problem before?
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Yes, on a sock phone randomly my phone will only last like 3-4 hours. Last night my phone was at < 25% after being off the charger for 3.5 hours.
Since I was at the rink that means I didn't actually use the phone for at least 2 hours and 10 minutes because I was on the ice for about that long.
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battery needs to be recalibrated.
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Serious Lulz...
It's just a misbehaving process - it's happened to me every once in a while on every ROM I've ever used. Rebooting the phone should fix it.
I had the same issue....on 2 VIBRANTS! I would charge it all night and in the morning it would display "100% charge". But once I disconnected the charger, it would ask to connect the charger. Low battery. I sent the first 2 back. Currently on my 3rd one and its going good.......for now.
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Okay, just a warning. This firmware is a battery destroyer. Within 11 minutes my battery has dropped 10% and I have no running background processes and I'm not doing anything with the unit. Just checking the screen once in a while. I've actually watched it go down 1% in a minute.
I'm telling you...if you have not installed this update...don't do it!
Too late for me.. already updated. I'll keep an eye on my battery level and let you know if I notice it go down faster than normal.
I just unpluged from the charger. It is at 100%.. I'll let you know where it is in 1 hour. I'll turn on display to stay on to simulate being used and then let it set.
Edit: Okay after 10 minutes.. still at 100% screen always on.. that was with whatever programs load into the background after boot.. I haven't killed any apps. I now have launched my Pykl3 Radar app to increase cpu from 300Mhz to 1000Mhz.. it refreshes the radar screen every 5 minutes.. we'll see how the battery does with the processor working harder.
I'm not noticing any difference really... Same battery life as before(I think, I haven't done any formal battery life tests or anything)
Seems fine for me too, but I'll go ahead and do this test.
Edit1: After 30 minutes it is still at 100%.
Edit2: After 35 minutes it has gone down to 99%
Edit3: After 60 minutes it has gone down to 96%
Edit4: After 90 minutes it has gone down to 90%
Edit5: After 2 hours it has gone down to 82%
Edit6: After 2.5 hours it has gone down to 76%
Edit7: After 3 hours it has gone down to 67%
Edit8: After 3.5 hour it has gone down to 61%
Edit9: After 4 hours it has gone down to 55%
Edit10: After 4.5 hours it has gone down to 50%
Edit11: After 5 hours it has gone down to 46%
Edit12: After 5.5 hours it has gone down to 44%
Edit13: After 6 hours it has gone down to 40%
So this averages out to a discharge rate of 10%/hr
This test was done with the screen fully on the whole time. Mostly running at full 1000Mhz and with wifi on and downloading data every 5 or so minutes.
If I let it run down to 20%, I would probably get about 8 hours which is within the specs of the Archos 101.
I was pushing the device harder than average and I believe in normal use I could get more than 10 hours.
So I conclude the battery problems aren't related to the latest firmware release 2.1.04.
Yeah, looks like you might just have a problem with your device. Have you tried reformatting and reinstall?
After about 4 hours of usage (mostly Wordfeud) with Softlocker active (keeps device awake when screen is off) I still have 82%.
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Yeah, looks like you might just have a problem with your device. Have you tried reformatting and reinstall?
After about 4 hours of usage (mostly Wordfeud) with Softlocker active (keeps device awake when screen is off) I still have 82%.
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Same here, no battery issues at all.
ExploreMN said:
Okay, just a warning. This firmware is a battery destroyer. Within 11 minutes my battery has dropped 10% and I have no running background processes and I'm not doing anything with the unit. Just checking the screen once in a while. I've actually watched it go down 1% in a minute.
I'm telling you...if you have not installed this update...don't do it!
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Saying that your battery is depleting at 1% per minute is useless information given that many electronic devices can sometimes drop by 20% in 1 second
Please only evalute battery usage by observing how much time it takes to fully discharge.
Please check battery history with the android system tool and also more detailed info accesible with this widget: http://www.appbrain.com/app/quick-battery/com.bwx.qs.battery
You can also take a look at CPU usage with http://www.appbrain.com/app/os-monitor/com.eolwral.osmonitor
Yesterday I updated to 2.1.4 and really have not noticed any battery drainage. No issue from my side.
Updating last night on Archos 70 8GB, after fully charged all night and playing net for 20 minutes continuously, battery drops to 99%. No sign of drainage too.
don't see any issue on battery drainage on my Archos 70IT either =)
It is interesting, but in this thread I appear to be the odd freak out and no one is having any issue except me...yet in the other 2.1.4 thread, a lot of people are experiencing this battery problem...not sure why that is, but the problem is there and it is real even if it is hit or miss on people experiencing it.
Yep, it's real. I put in a service ticket. I wiped and reloaded my a70 today, but it was still drawing over 800 ma listening to Pandora. I only had about 30% left on the battery, and I wanted to completely discharge it. It's stone dead and on the charge right now. I'll find out early if it helped. 3am start tomorrow. Goodnight.
(first post ) I just installed firmware 2.1.4 yesterday, and haven't noticed any difference in battery life. Although, I have noticed that 3d games obliterate my battery life now, where they just ate it before.
Wiped, reloaded, completely discharged, and charged over night. Down 20% the first hour.
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Wiped, reloaded, completely discharged, and charged over night. Down 20% the first hour.
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Mine is still around 10% drop every hour I have wifi on for net surfing. Mine just upgraded from 2.1.2, just for information.
don't see any issue on battery drainage on my Archos 101 IT either
One thing I am noticing is that is seems more sensitive to cranking up the processor to somewhere between 600Mhz and 1Ghz at various times. Before it wasn't as sensitive and often would stay in the 300-600 range for me. This change may be why people have noticed "increased performance/less lag?"
That might be part of the drain issue or something else.
I think the point is that it is hit or miss out there. Some people get the glitch and some don't. Regardless, Archos needs to address the problem.
Ok, now this is interesting. Just to try something different, I reformatted my tablet this time and installed 2.1.3, then restored everything with Titanium. I seemed to be holding up much better. After an hour it had barely dropped. To put it to the test I drove home from work with bt gps and google maps via tether. All tolled, in 2 hours it dropped about 10%. I thought I had it fixed. Then I realized I hadn't rebooted after restoring with Titanium, so it was still rooted. I rebooted it and the wheels came off. It dropped over 10% in about 20 minutes. I ran the root app again and it leveled right off. It's down to 10% now so I have to charge it before I can experiment more, but maybe someone else can try and see if they see the same thing.
Maybe root has something to do with it.. I've never rooted and don't have a problem.. I wonder if the only people having problems are the ones that rooted.. although it sounds backwards in your case.
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Maybe root has something to do with it.. I've never rooted and don't have a problem.. I wonder if the only people having problems are the ones that rooted.. although it sounds backwards in your case.
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I was wondering the same thing. It also seems to have to do with wifi, because with it off it draws almost nothing. The exploit has something to do with the wifi, so who knows.
My TF is behaving very odd lately. I have a dock with the tablet and the first few weeks that I have used it I could get literally 16 hours of use.
I use "Android System Info" to track my battery use. It is very accurate, and now its gone haywire. It reports that my tablet has an uptime of 3 days and 2 hours. It also reports that my uptime (without sleeps) is 13 hours and 30 minutes.
Now my actual settings (android os) tell me that my uptime is 1 day and 2 hours. Which is absolutely true (that's the last time I charged it).
Here's the funny part. The battery use menu tell me that the tablet has been "Awake" for many hours at a time and atleast 20 times more than the screen has been on.
And it's just BURNING thru my battery. It just plummeted from 38% to 14% in 20 minutes.
I don't have any suspicious apps on my TF, lol.
[Q] Is a factory reset my only option?
EDIT: This started happening immediately after I tried using Juice Defender. I uninstalled it, but the battery still drains like mad. Also my screen now turns on at random.
the hours being different from each other could be from removing it from the dock. I would back everything up and try and do a reset, it wouldnt hurt any. Then you can see if its a hardware issue or a setting that got changed.
I mean at this point I'm resetting my TF every few days messing around with things
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Sorry if this is the wrong section for my post, not sure with the new XDA Site where to post it. I have a 3 day old Note 4 (SM-N910H) which on a full charge doesn't last 5 hours. Now I know a lot of you guys are going to ask what ive done and what i need to check. I am not new to Android Devices and this is my 3rd Galaxy Range Phone. So what iv'e done is charged it full to 100% at 9pm Saturday night, then went to bed, disabled Mobile Data and Sync and put phone on Silent. Sunday morning I woke up at 3am and wanted to see what time it is on my phone and it was dead. I put it on charge for 5 mins and switched it on on 3% bat. This is not right! I then decided to look for apps that drain the battery and couldn't find anything, so I backed up my phone and did a factory reset/wipe to see if maybe the OS wasn't messing around ......... So Sunday evening I did the same thing, charged it full and then disabled Mobile Data, Sync and put phone on silent, same thing ..... dead phone by 5am. I don't think enabling Power saving is going to make a difference cause the screen brightness is set to Auto, I dont like the CPU performance being limited in Power Saving, but still this is way to fast battery draining for a new device. I had a look at the aplications/OS battery usage and cant find anything wrong, the screen only takes 4% ...... Ive attached a screenshot of the running apps/battery usage. Ohhhh yes and the phone already has the latest firmware update too. SO I am thinking Faulty Battery?
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Sorry if this is the wrong section for my post, not sure with the new XDA Site where to post it. I have a 3 day old Note 4 (SM-N910H) which on a full charge doesn't last 5 hours. Now I know a lot of you guys are going to ask what ive done and what i need to check. I am not new to Android Devices and this is my 3rd Galaxy Range Phone. So what iv'e done is charged it full to 100% at 9pm Saturday night, then went to bed, disabled Mobile Data and Sync and put phone on Silent. Sunday morning I woke up at 3am and wanted to see what time it is on my phone and it was dead. I put it on charge for 5 mins and switched it on on 3% bat. This is not right! I then decided to look for apps that drain the battery and couldn't find anything, so I backed up my phone and did a factory reset/wipe to see if maybe the OS wasn't messing around ......... So Sunday evening I did the same thing, charged it full and then disabled Mobile Data, Sync and put phone on silent, same thing ..... dead phone by 5am. I don't think enabling Power saving is going to make a difference cause the screen brightness is set to Auto, I dont like the CPU performance being limited in Power Saving, but still this is way to fast battery draining for a new device. I had a look at the aplications/OS battery usage and cant find anything wrong, the screen only takes 4% ...... Ive attached a screenshot of the running apps/battery usage. Ohhhh yes and the phone already has the latest firmware update too. SO I am thinking Faulty Battery?
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you definitely have a defected unit..return it when you can
Clash of Clans is an out-of-the-box software ?
So you installed some more apps. Maybe some of them are causing wakelocks, draining the battery.
I'd try that infamous "factory reset" and checking if battery life gets better with NO additional apps installed prior to sending back the Note.
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Good day guys
Sorry if this is the wrong section for my post, not sure with the new XDA Site where to post it. I have a 3 day old Note 4 (SM-N910H) which on a full charge doesn't last 5 hours. Now I know a lot of you guys are going to ask what ive done and what i need to check. I am not new to Android Devices and this is my 3rd Galaxy Range Phone. So what iv'e done is charged it full to 100% at 9pm Saturday night, then went to bed, disabled Mobile Data and Sync and put phone on Silent. Sunday morning I woke up at 3am and wanted to see what time it is on my phone and it was dead. I put it on charge for 5 mins and switched it on on 3% bat. This is not right! I then decided to look for apps that drain the battery and couldn't find anything, so I backed up my phone and did a factory reset/wipe to see if maybe the OS wasn't messing around ......... So Sunday evening I did the same thing, charged it full and then disabled Mobile Data, Sync and put phone on silent, same thing ..... dead phone by 5am. I don't think enabling Power saving is going to make a difference cause the screen brightness is set to Auto, I dont like the CPU performance being limited in Power Saving, but still this is way to fast battery draining for a new device. I had a look at the aplications/OS battery usage and cant find anything wrong, the screen only takes 4% ...... Ive attached a screenshot of the running apps/battery usage. Ohhhh yes and the phone already has the latest firmware update too. SO I am thinking Faulty Battery?
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What's "WhatsApp" doing with your battery? I use WA a lot, and it's not consuming that much!
Thanks guys, I manged to solve the problem. I also thought of returning the device (more likely Battery). Here is what I did. I disabled fast charge, then let the phone run completely dead like till it shuts down, then i boot it again until it shuts down again making sure the battery is completely drained. Then I charge the phone on a normal charge (keeping the phone switched off) till its fully charged (green Light) and I sort of overcharge it for another hour, which on normal charge plus extra hour is about 3 hours +-. Now my phone after his last charge is running more than 16 hours and now on 52% still playing Clash of clans, using Whatsapp a lot, BBM etc
Maybe spread the word cause this has surely fixed the charge on the battery
I got an S4 i9505 replacement yesterday from my insurance company. It effectively seems to be new phone and battery, anyway when I turned it on it had 70% battery left, I logged into my various things and it sat about downloading and restoring and installing a 5.0.1 update, the process took about 30 mins and at the end of the 30 mins I had 9% battery left, I connected to the charger and it was full again in 30mins which I found odd.
Anyway let it sit on the charger all night, took it off this morning and with 2 mins of screen on time I am already at 94%, I can't see how this thing will last the day.
I am not a newbie, I have things like sync and GPS etc turned off and screen brightness lowered however in saying that even at the lowest setting it seems very bright.
Any ideas?
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I got an S4 i9505 replacement yesterday from my insurance company. It effectively seems to be new phone and battery, anyway when I turned it on it had 70% battery left, I logged into my various things and it sat about downloading and restoring and installing a 5.0.1 update, the process took about 30 mins and at the end of the 30 mins I had 9% battery left, I connected to the charger and it was full again in 30mins which I found odd.
Anyway let it sit on the charger all night, took it off this morning and with 2 mins of screen on time I am already at 94%, I can't see how this thing will last the day.
I am not a newbie, I have things like sync and GPS etc turned off and screen brightness lowered however in saying that even at the lowest setting it seems very bright.
Any ideas?
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You cannot jump to conclusions based on this. Your device was setting up, your battery needs to settle etc. It's normal to discharge faster.
Try a few charges / discharges and see if it helps.
But most likely if it's charging way too fast and discharging fast as well, the problem is most likely the battery itself, it might be a old one.
Right ok, been using this for a few days now, with basically everything turned off I am getting 1 hr screen on time, something not right but can't figure out what