Nexus 4 Battery Issues - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys, sorry for interrupting you.
Ive got a weird trouble affecting my Nexus 4. For some reason my battery life went nuts. I didnt drop the phone to the water or ground, and my battery life decreased to 3-4 hours max.
So, first of all the battery life is somthing like that:
100% - 15 minutes - 75 % (no wifi or 3g) - 30 minutes - 60% - 1 hour - it turns OFF. When I connect it to the charger, its says 1% of battery left.
Charging process is like this:
5% - 7% - 30% - CHARGED. The whole charging process takes about 30 mins ...
I rooted it, used BatteryCalibration - nothing works, it just turns off when it decides to. HERE is a swcreenshot taken 30 mins after charger unplugging, and 30 mins after taking a screenshot device died ...
I hope you guys can help me somehow, should I take it to the service?
Thanks in advance!

Do exactly as this thread says and your N4 will be fine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
Otherwise try different charger or battery
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Thank you very much for your help, but unfortunately it didnt work ... I still have the same issues.
Do you think I should go to service and replace battery?
Thanks in advance!
ashkan_mc said:
Do exactly as this thread says and your N4 will be fine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
Otherwise try different charger or battery
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if it doesnt works that use this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oJi3kIy8gU
http://www.amazon.com/Internal-Batt...id=1378825983&sr=8-1&keywords=nexus+4+battery

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Battery stuck while charging

hi all,
i have some problem with my wildfire battery while charging it stuck on charging percentage like 70 to 80 % everytime than i need to restart my cell after 5 min of charge than its start showing 100 % but it will take almost 4 to 5 hours for a complete charge.
I already tries to clear battery status in 100 % but like other clear cache n all when we clik on yes its shows cache cleared but in clear battery status nothing such type of massage shows by my phone and still facing the same issue with my wildfire.
I already S off my phone and using my backup of froyo..
Kindly suggest me what to do after a full charge my battery last for almost 24 hours...
Have you tried charging when the phone is off?
If it still isn't charging, have you tried using the AC Charger?
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but buddy i dont wanna switch off my cell for charging it will take almost 4 hours for a complete charge...
kindly suggest something else that will going wrong with my cell??
Do you find that the battery drains particularly fast?
Or does it just take long to charge?
no my battery gives me good backup almost 24 hours it stuck on certain % while charging and i need to restart to get it full charged.
How old is your wildfire? The long charging times I'd say would probably be down to a messed up battery
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its around 10 months old..
same problem with my wildfire.. mine also arround 8 9 months old
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1159518
this is what other forum saying.. but i am using stock froyo and it was working fine few weeks back
tried my battery with other phone it works fine.. not a problem with battery..
restart shows battery fully charged..
factory reset also did not solve the problem
any other solution guys ??

Atrix not charging past 88%

As of Saturday evening, my phone will no longer charge past 88%. Earlier on Saturday, the phone was charged to 100% in my car. We lost power and the phone ran down to 3% before I was able to charge it again.
After charging over 8 hours, the phone would not go past 88%. Any ideas?
MacAlert said:
As of Saturday evening, my phone will no longer charge past 88%. Earlier on Saturday, the phone was charged to 100% in my car. We lost power and the phone ran down to 3% before I was able to charge it again.
After charging over 8 hours, the phone would not go past 88%. Any ideas?
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Have you tried to recalibrate the battery? Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16240746
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Voelker45 said:
Have you tried to recalibrate the battery? Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16240746
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I have not tried that. Weird thing is, the battery calibration app reads 4196mV at 70% while charging and ~4200 while at 88%.
Just go to CWM recovery and wipe battery stats. Do a few charge recharge cycle. It should be OK.
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anupash said:
Just go to CWM recovery and wipe battery stats. Do a few charge recharge cycle. It should be OK.
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Yup wiping the battery stats in cwm will do the trick
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Charge to 88% or until you notice it not going any further. Turn off the phone. Plug in the charger and wait until the battery display shows. While the phone is still plugged in, remove the battery. Wait for it to boot up and show a no battery icon (or something like that). Once it does, put the battery back in and leave it for about 30 mins. When you hit the volume buttons, the display will show between 5-10% charged. Anyway, after about 30 mins, turn the phone one and it should show 100%. Re-calibrate the battery after that using the app or recovery.
Are all android batteries like this? I've never had a device with such finicky battery stats. I too have the 88% problem and i feel like im recalibrating every week. I will try again.
s1mpd1ddy said:
Are all android batteries like this? I've never had a device with such finicky battery stats. I too have the 88% problem and i feel like im recalibrating every week. I will try again.
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I don't think they're all like this..but I know its as annoying as F***. Every morning almost i'm doing the "battery pop out" trick just so that it'll read full. It would be different if it read 95% or something and stuck there for awhile until the battery caught up to the actual reading..but it doesn't. The battery continues to drain at a normal rate, so you basically lose however many % you had initially.
Definately annoying..
Rickroller said:
I don't think they're all like this..but I know its as annoying as F***. Every morning almost i'm doing the "battery pop out" trick just so that it'll read full. It would be different if it read 95% or something and stuck there for awhile until the battery caught up to the actual reading..but it doesn't. The battery continues to drain at a normal rate, so you basically lose however many % you had initially.
Definately annoying..
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so you're having to do the pop-out trick every day? that's definitely not something you should have to do....... what gives with our battery?
Mine did this before and what I did was run it all the way to 0% and it cuts of and will not start, then charge it to 100% with the power off and and then boot it up. Work like a charm for me.
lilhaiti said:
Mine did this before and what I did was run it all the way to 0% and it cuts of and will not start, then charge it to 100% with the power off and and then boot it up. Work like a charm for me.
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Same, friends atrix wouldn't get past 86%, calibration app didn't work and neither did wiping bat stats. Draining however did fix but damn was it slow. 6+ hours to reach 100%
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ChongoDroid said:
Same, friends atrix wouldn't get past 86%, calibration app didn't work and neither did wiping bat stats. Draining however did fix but damn was it slow. 6+ hours to reach 100%
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do you have the same battery issues on your galaxy?
So I've been sitting at 1% for the past hour. Been playing games, have wifi, bluetooth, GPS all turned on.
Thing will just not turn off!
EDIT: Right as soon as I post this, it turns off. Over 1 hour on 1%.
Will recharge tonight and hopefully it works right.
I had this problem for a while but you should know that it will fix itself eventually. The phone is fully capable of re-learning the limits of the battery and after several days will begin to display the correct charging status. Mine took about a week to start displaying 99% in the morning.
This happened after I did the complete discharge, charge, pull battery, charge again, then boot procedure. It was fine for a couple of days then started displaying 82% as a full charge then slowly got better. I'm fairly confident that I'm not leaving anything on the table in terms of capacity either since with moderate use and turning off wifi when I leave the house I'm getting about two days of charge.
Sounds like a jumping battery problem to me.
1. Click on this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1174349&highlight=battery+fix
2. Download juggernault's jumping battery fix.
3. Follow the instructions there
4. if it solves your problem, thank the dude for his contribution to the Atrix community and also leave him a comment to thank him.
heres what you need to do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ehvLLmEIg
Already have juggernaults battery fix applied. Thinking this is just some freak occurrence.
EDIT: Drained the battery at work. Charged since 6:30 while powered off and phone charged past 88%. All is well in Atrixland!
MacAlert said:
Already have juggernaults battery fix applied. Thinking this is just some freak occurrence.
EDIT: Drained the battery at work. Charged since 6:30 while powered off and phone charged past 88%. All is well in Atrixland!
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Not a freak occurrence. Happens to me too all the time.. makes me not wanna flash anything . I jump charged my phone to 100 today. Did battery pull, wiped stats and calibrated
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s1mpd1ddy said:
do you have the same battery issues on your galaxy?
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No none, I had battery drain but it was kernel related. I get a days worth of heavy usage out of mine now.
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Figured I'd follow up. After doing all this ... first recharge went to 98. Second recharge overnight.. 85 Max. WTF
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[HELP] Big battery drain. 1 hour battery life

Ok I lied, it's not one hour backup, it's 50 min battery backup. I charged my phone to 100% 4163mv and played about 2 songs, battery dropped to 47 and then suddenly 0%. It all happened in less than 50 min. Just when I was thinking, it can't be more worse. I charged and battery was 99% :O. Another time, phone shut down at 40%, when charged moved up to 70% and number started increasing every 3 seconds. I did calibrated it many times so that's out of question. I bought this phone in May so I will be surprised if battery is defective. I'm confused. Please help!!
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friend863 said:
Ok I lied, it's not one hour backup, it's 50 min battery backup. I charged my phone to 100% 4163mv and played about 2 songs, battery dropped to 47 and then suddenly 0%. It all happened in less than 50 min. Just when I was thinking, it can't be more worse. I charged and battery was 99% :O. Another time, phone shut down at 40%, when charged moved up to 70% and number started increasing every 3 seconds. I did calibrated it many times so that's out of question. I bought this phone in May so I will be surprised if battery is defective. I'm confused. Please help!!
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charge till you get"unplug your charger " message
I did, many times too.
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friend863 said:
I did, many times too.
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Time for a new battery bro...
Same thing happened with me....
On a side note : Does the back cover of your phone fit?
Cause when I had this problem my battery had literally expanded in size.... :X
Due to which the back cover did not fit perfectly.......
Yeah, it fits perfectly..
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Download from market app called Battery Calibration.
Open it and connect your phone to the charger. When you have 100% status, and ~4200mV click Calibrate and unplug your charger.
Then set the LCD Brightness to max, set timeout to never sleep or just use your phone to fast discharge it(that doesn't need to be fast and doesn't need to be slow it just need drop to 0%).
Let it automatically die because of low power, and then charge it to 100%(you can use battery calibration app to see the voltage, around 4.2V it's max).
After that your phone should have a much better battery life.
JoHnNy08PL said:
Download from market app called Battery Calibration.
Open it and connect your phone to the charger. When you have 100% status, and ~4200mV click Calibrate and unplug your charger.
Then set the LCD Brightness to max, set timeout to never sleep or just use your phone to fast discharge it(that doesn't need to be fast and doesn't need to be slow it just need drop to 0%).
Let it automatically die because of low power, and then charge it to 100%(you can use battery calibration app to see the voltage, around 4.2V it's max).
After that your phone should have a much better battery life.
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He already said, he did calibrate the battery....
I 100% think you need a new battery Mate....
Try installing any stock rom before. Maybe that can help. I was getting ultra fast battery drains when I flashed indroid 5.0
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Yes u need a change of batt. I had not even up to half an hour of wifi surfing. After changing i could use the phone for 30+hrs
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Change the Battery.. I had the same problem.. then found out my battery got swollen big time..

Nexus 4 Battery

So I have nexus 4 with battery that was bad it basically would die at 18% just shut off. So I replaced with new battery and I charged it right away to 100% and did battery calibration as soon as I unplugged it it said 79% every time then I plug it back it and it instantly counts and climbs back to 100% within min and once it hits 100% it fine it will drop normal I'm not sure if I shouldn't have done a battery calibration to brand new it like it remembering old battery now it does this every charge cycle it annoying.
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BiggTeddy26 said:
So I have nexus 4 with battery that was bad it basically would die at 18% just shut off. So I replaced with new battery and I charged it right away to 100% and did battery calibration as soon as I unplugged it it said 79% every time then I plug it back it and it instantly counts and climbs back to 100% within min and once it hits 100% it fine it will drop normal I'm not sure if I shouldn't have done a battery calibration to brand new it like it remembering old battery now it does this every charge cycle it annoying.
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There's absolutely no need to calibrate the N4's battery. You just don't need to.
What do I do now cause every time it shows 100% then drops to 79
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Better put back the original battery and try this:
1. Leave your phone to turn off cause of battery drain
2. Immediately reboot at fastboot mode and leave it alone for some time, till it gets off again. This is the real point 0 of battery.
Now charge it till 100% without using it.
After that use it normally and inform is if IT got any better.
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So I bought new battery this new battery won't hold a charge past 79% so I ordered a new one I f!ash Stock and Relocked Boot loader now when I get new battery in it prob gonna be dead should I charge it til 100% and another 4-6 hours after to get beat life right ... Then run it once or twice till it complete dead and charge to 100%
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Yes it helps. Thank you! :good:
RASTAVIPER said:
Better put back the original battery and try this:
1. Leave your phone to turn off cause of battery drain
2. Immediately reboot at fastboot mode and leave it alone for some time, till it gets off again. This is the real point 0 of battery.
Now charge it till 100% without using it.
After that use it normally and inform is if IT got any better.
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[Q] Terrible Battery Life

Hi guys, my glaxy s4 has terrible battery life. Like after 5 hours, i need to recharge my phone again. My phone is rooted and on CM 12 (UB ROM). I tried to remove facebook but no luck. How can i improve my battery life? I provided a sceenshot of my battery usage.
I appreciate your help. Thanks in advance
Use BBS and check wakelocks
If ur using it all the way for 5 hours straight, it's normal.
worktorest said:
If ur using it all the way for 5 hours straight, it's normal.
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Are you sure? S4's battery is 2600 mAh. It should take about 15 hours or more to make the battery become low with minutes of gaming.. I have S3 mini and its battery is 1500 mAh and it takes about 12 hours or more to make the battery become low.
I can get 5 hours on 60 percent but I gotta be using battery saver with data off when I lock the acreen
take a look at this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59922819&postcount=12
Thanks, i will try it
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Gaming or watching movies will discharge your battery in a few hours. 4,5 or 6 hours max. Depending on what you're doing and other stuff like wifi and screen brightness.
GDReaper said:
Gaming or watching movies will discharge your battery in a few hours. 4,5 or 6 hours max. Depending on what you're doing and other stuff like wifi and screen brightness.
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But i have galaxy s3 mini and its battery life is longer than s4. S3 mini's battery is 1500mAh, s4 is 2600mAh. S4's battery life is supposed to be longer than s3's
Battery life. Oh and i tried not to play games but tue battery life is still terrible. I hate it.
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xxhunterxx11 said:
But i have galaxy s3 mini and its battery life is longer than s4. S3 mini's battery is 1500mAh, s4 is 2600mAh. S4's battery life is supposed to be longer than s3's
Battery life. Oh and i tried not to play games but tue battery life is still terrible. I hate it.
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Was the battery life always terrible or is it just now?
I'm having a similar problem so I'll use this thread instead of creating a new one. I hope you don't mind.
My battery is draining at a rate of 15% per hour even If I leave it on standby, ocasionally turning on the screen to get a message on Whatsapp of checking the time. It was 100% this morning, 1 and a half hours later, 74%.
After reading on the forums that the cause of the battery drain could be that the phone was constantly trying to get network signal (in cases where the signal is poor, like where I live), I decided to switch on airplane mode. To my surprise, in 3 minutes after this the phone was in 75%. 10 minutes later and I got a 76%. As I write (on PC) it is on 80%.
That's right. The phone started "recharging" without a cable (I know this is impossible, just describing what the display shows me) after I turned on airplane mode.
Any ideas about what might be going on and how can I solve this?
Thanks in advance!
P.S.: It's not the battery itself, as I've bought a brand-new, samsung original battery and the draining was still the same
EDIT: the battery started behaving like this only a few weeks ago. So I'd assume that the signal problem could be helping, but would not be the main reason on why my battery goes down so quickly.
Venorian said:
I'm having a similar problem so I'll use this thread instead of creating a new one. I hope you don't mind.
My battery is draining at a rate of 15% per hour even If I leave it on standby, ocasionally turning on the screen to get a message on Whatsapp of checking the time. It was 100% this morning, 1 and a half hours later, 74%.
After reading on the forums that the cause of the battery drain could be that the phone was constantly trying to get network signal (in cases where the signal is poor, like where I live), I decided to switch on airplane mode. To my surprise, in 3 minutes after this the phone was in 75%. 10 minutes later and I got a 76%. As I write (on PC) it is on 80%.
That's right. The phone started "recharging" without a cable (I know this is impossible, just describing what the display shows me) after I turned on airplane mode.
Any ideas about what might be going on and how can I solve this?
Thanks in advance!
P.S.: It's not the battery itself, as I've bought a brand-new, samsung original battery and the draining was still the same
EDIT: the battery started behaving like this only a few weeks ago. So I'd assume that the signal problem could be helping, but would not be the main reason on why my battery goes down so quickly.
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I loose battery at the same speeed, but my signal is not so poor.
Not tried the airplane mode, but i'm sure that if i put to charge it charge quickly, too quickly.... like it was 80% 5 min after 90%
GDReaper said:
Was the battery life always terrible or is it just now?
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It was terrible from the beginning. I cant replace the battery because my phone is rooted and my warranty is now void. And i won't buy a new battery because i believe the problem wiol not be solved.
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What if i flash the official firmware from samsung? Will it fix the battery issue?
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xxhunterxx11 said:
What if i flash the official firmware from samsung? Will it fix the battery issue?
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You could try that and see if it is a rom problem.
Otherwise try to borrow a battery from somewhere just to be sure it isn't the battery.

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