Sudden battery drain - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys!
Today my phone was at about 10% charge, so I decided to charge it. After I plugged it in, it immediately said charged (I unplugged it after it said charged). After about 30mins the phone completely turned off and wouldn't turn on. When I went home and plugged it in, a red light started to blink. After fiddling around with it and finally being able to turn it on, I went into the battery menu and realized there was a sudden drop. I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me why it happened, a fix/ a way to prevent this from happening!
Edit: I am using paranoid android 3.69 with twrp 2.6 and Franco kernel 3.4 milestone 3
Android 4.2.2
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thats a pretty big issue, but I just ran into a similar issue. My battery life was at 73, and then i powered off the phone then powered it back on. it was still at 73. then i powered off again and powered on again and it was down to 65. Not sure why that is, did you power off/on your like this too?

dabadoo said:
thats a pretty big issue, but I just ran into a similar issue. My battery life was at 73, and then i powered off the phone then powered it back on. it was still at 73. then i powered off again and powered on again and it was down to 65. Not sure why that is, did you power off/on your like this too?
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no my phone was on the entire time. It had 10% charge so i plugged it in and then it said 100% charged. then i unplugged it. after a while it turned off by itself.

mmaster261 said:
Hey guys!
Today my phone was at about 10% charge, so I decided to charge it. After I plugged it in, it immediately said charged (I unplugged it after it said charged). After about 30mins the phone completely turned off and wouldn't turn on. When I went home and plugged it in, a red light started to blink. After fiddling around with it and finally being able to turn it on, I went into the battery menu and realized there was a sudden drop. I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me why it happened, a fix/ a way to prevent this from happening!
Edit: I am using paranoid android 3.69 with twrp 2.6 and Franco kernel 3.4 milestone 3
Android 4.2.2
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Woah, this is either a big coincidence or has something to do w/ PA. I had same thing happen to me and I had to RMA my phone. It had only been a few days since I had installed PA for the first time.

What do you mean by "I had to RMA my phone"? Sorry i dont know many terms.
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Didn't unlocking the boot loader void the warranty? How did you get a replacement?
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mmaster261 said:
Hey guys!
Today my phone was at about 10% charge, so I decided to charge it. After I plugged it in, it immediately said charged (I unplugged it after it said charged).
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It's this... the battery is bugging out if it instantly jumps from 10% to 100%... mine did this the other day actually... nfi how to fix it besides having it shutdown
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Sorry if this is a nooby suggestion, but maybe get a battery calibration app?
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I did try that and I'm currently not experiencing any issuesl. Thanks for the suggestion!
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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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Ultra fast charging..

Wow check that out has anyone's device done that? Stock charger, batt went from 50% to full in round 5 mins...?!
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Then, after you reboot, the percentage stays the same?
Nexus4 modded with cyanogen.
mine done that once... but it was trolling me.
After reboot? Nah.. it dropped to 28%!
Fastest discharge in history too.
Fail
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My N4 did that once even worse, went from 7% to 100% in under 10 minutes, I was do confused. I had to run out so I grabbed it and took it with me, battery went to 97% after about twenty minutes then phone just shut off. Plugged in and had the red led. I plugged in and booted to recovery and let it charge a few, then booted up and it was at 3%, has been fine since.
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Do you by any chance have lightflow installed...? I recently had my Nexus 4 going from 29% to 100% in perhaps 10 seconds and I have never seen this before and I have had the phone since december but have just installed lightflow about a week ago - after a restart everything was back to normal though....
No lightflow here...also hasn't happened again either so it seems random.
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[Q] Red light of death?

Last night I plugged my nexus in before falling asleep, the battery wasn't extremely low (20%) and it seemed to start charging completely fine. However, when i woke up i unplugged the phone and was unresponsive, I tried holding the power button and such, but to no avail. I then plugged the device back into the wall and the notification light came on a solid red. I tried to turn the device on again and still had no success. I've had it plugged in with the red light on for about 7 hours now and there is no change at all. Please anyone have any knowledge pertaining to what the problem is and how it could be solved?
Try this:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250454
Tell us if it worked!
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failly said:
Try this:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250454
Tell us if it worked!
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Tried it, still got nothing... checked the battery with and its showing no charge. I Guess the battery is just fried

Anyone seeing battery drain when phone is off?

I seem to be having battery drain when my find 5 is completely powered off. Twice I have fully charged my find 5 and powered if off. The next day I powered it on and my battery was down to 65ish percent. The first time it happened I thought maybe I was mistaken about charging it fully but last night there was no doubt that when I powered it off it was at 100% and woke up, powered it on and it was at 65% . I charged it back to 100,powered it off and left it off for about 2 hours. When I powered it on, it was down to 96%. So it's definitely draining while powered off. I'm running Cm (the latest rc1) with CWM recovery. I'm thinking I might have a bum battery.
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Been awhile since I've had mine shut off.. But I'll do a full charge now and power down for a bit... Stay tuned!
UPDATE: got tired of waiting to get a full charge so I unplugged at 95%. Shut the phone off for almost and hour and didn't loose any %. Tonight I will let it stay off all night and see if there's battery drain.
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Thanks Corey, let me know brother. T-minus one month until we party at the BBQ
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graffixnyc said:
Thanks Corey, let me know brother. T-minus one month until we party at the BBQ
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Powered it on this morning and had 99%. Can't conform if it lost percentage overnight or during startup :-/
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How do I finally fix this instant battery drain problem?

i hope some of you have experienced this. i'm on carbon rom right now. sometimes when i'm in the middle of an app, it's just turn off and when i plug it in and turn it on the battery is at 0%. i've done a factory reset.
I have never had that happen before. Does your battery meter move? Like does it say sit at 50% for ages then all of a sudden your phone turns off.
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no, but it does happen around 50% from my experience.
rty1138 said:
i hope some of you have experienced this. i'm on carbon rom right now. sometimes when i'm in the middle of an app, it's just turn off and when i plug it in and turn it on the battery is at 0%. i've done a factory reset.
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Try out another ROM to see whether the battery drain still happens. If no, then it's the ROM's kernel.
Yeah I would try another rom or hell even stock. Maybe your battery is defective if a new rom doesn't help
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How do you charge your phone? Using the stock wall charger?
usb from laptop
This used to happen to a friend of mine when the service centre guys open the phone they discovered that the battery was leaking so they had to change the battery the problem finally went away
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arpitnathany said:
This used to happen to a friend of mine when the service centre guys open the phone they discovered that the battery was leaking so they had to change the battery the problem finally went away
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bought a battery. worth a try i guess.

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