No matter on which kernel I am ,stock/franco/semaphore etc... When I play heavy games like asphalt8 ,nfs mw and GTA VC my battery drains like hell ,and then the % stuck and not going down for about 30 minutes. Here is an example:
Had 25% ,launched NFS MW and played for 5 minutes on low brightness. After 5 minutes showed up on my screen the low battery notification ,4% left. Resumed the game and after 20 seconds my phone showed "Shutting down".
It happens everytime ,no matter how many cycles I'm doing. Another example:
Yesterday I had 69% ,played GTA VC for a couple minutes and boom ,35%. After that I surfed in the web ,listened to music in Soundcloud ,and did a lot of things with screen on and battery was stuck on 35% for about 30 minutes. Launched NFS MW ,played about 2 minutes just to see what happens and boom - battery droped to 25%.
It happens only when I play heavy games. Please help me ,what can it be? Tried many roms too ,same result. Now I'm on stock JWR66Y with stock kernel.
thats normal behavior. when using the device heavily, battery drops faster. unfortunately, our battery stats are 100% accurate. when the battery drops fast, actually showing a little more battery used than it actually used. so what you are experiencing is the bounce back affect. what its doing is making itself accurate again. sometimes after using the battery alot and fast, if you let it sit there, the battery % will rise, kinda looks like its being charged without plugging in.
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thats normal behavior. when using the device heavily, battery drops faster. unfortunately, our battery stats are 100% accurate. when the battery drops fast, actually showing a little more battery used than it actually used. so what you are experiencing is the bounce back affect. what its doing is making itself accurate again. sometimes after using the battery alot and fast, if you let it sit there, the battery % will rise, kinda looks like its being charged without plugging in.
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Ok ,got it. But what is the explanation to situation like I described here:
"Had 25% ,launched NFS MW and played for 5 minutes on low brightness. After 5 minutes showed up on my screen the low battery notification ,4% left. Resumed the game and after 20 seconds my phone showed "Shutting down".
Then I turned on my phone and battery % was 10 ,and stuck for a couple of minutes on 10.
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Ok ,got it. But what is the explanation to situation like I described here:
"Had 25% ,launched NFS MW and played for 5 minutes on low brightness. After 5 minutes showed up on my screen the low battery notification ,4% left. Resumed the game and after 20 seconds my phone showed "Shutting down".
Then I turned on my phone and battery % was 10 ,and stuck for a couple of minutes on 10.
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our battery stats inaccuracy.
sometimes, when benchmarking at high cpu speeds at 70% battery left, for example, and the phone crashes, itll boot back up and show that theres 20% left(for example). then if you reboot the phone again, it go back to 70%. or if you let it just sit there at that 20% with the screen off, youll notice it slowly "charge" itself without being plugged in. this happens often. and happens on every single android phone starting with tge originally released g1. yes, our battery status is just very inaccurate and inefficient. youve probably heard of people experiencing the rlod(red light of death). this is also a good example. sometimes the phone itself creates a situation that itjust thinks that the battery fell below 0%(which creates the rlod issue). and when people get their phone up and running again, itll show 50, 60, 70%..
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our battery stats inaccuracy.
sometimes, when benchmarking at high cpu speeds at 70% battery left, for example, and the phone crashes, itll boot back up and show that theres 20% left(for example). then if you reboot the phone again, it go back to 70%. or if you let it just sit there at that 20% with the screen off, youll notice it slowly "charge" itself without being plugged in. this happens often. and happens on every single android phone starting with tge originally released g1. yes, our battery status is just very inaccurate and inefficient. youve probably heard of people experiencing the rlod(red light of death). this is also a good example. sometimes the phone itself creates a situation that itjust thinks that the battery fell below 0%(which creates the rlod issue). and when people get their phone up and running again, itll show 50, 60, 70%..
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It's so annoying ,I'm getting crazy with that.
Anyway thank you @simms22 for your answer and your help ,appreciate it.
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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.
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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!
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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.
Hey guys... first post, here we go!
I got my nexus over a week ago and to my surprise everything was perfect (ordered three of them, had to RMA two due to screen problems). Now I'm thinking of RMAing this one as well.
So everything was fine until two days ago I decided to charge my phone by plugging it in to my computer's USB port. Since then the battery (or the battery reading) is acting weird.
It seems that when I charge my phone through USB and then unplug it, it literally loses a % every minute, and then would stop at lets say 10%, and that 10% would last me for a good 45 minutes of screen time. My battery used to discharge one percent at a time, but now it seems like it's stuck on a certain percentage, and then some time later it drastically drops. The battery app sort of confirms that... there always used to be a steady line going down. Now it's always a straight line (battery not discharging), and then a sharp vertical line going down).
I charged my phone to a 100% with a power outlet just now, it seems to be discharging normally again. I am at 93% now, the phone was charged 4 hours ago, screen time is 15 minutes. Is this normal? Seems sort of normal to me.. I can't tell what normal is anymore. I am able to get about 3.5-4 hours of screen time (unless I am playing GTA vice city, then two hours at most).
BetterBatteryStats doesn't show anything too suspicious, there are no partial wakelocks however the phone does stay awake a little bit longer than screen time, but just a tiny bit — it's still in deep sleep mode most of the time.
Is my battery malfunctioning? Should I RMA? I have two days to decide, urgh.
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Hey guys... first post, here we go!
I got my nexus over a week ago and to my surprise everything was perfect (ordered three of them, had to RMA two due to screen problems). Now I'm thinking of RMAing this one as well.
So everything was fine until two days ago I decided to charge my phone by plugging it in to my computer's USB port. Since then the battery (or the battery reading) is acting weird.
It seems that when I charge my phone through USB and then unplug it, it literally loses a % every minute, and then would stop at lets say 10%, and that 10% would last me for a good 45 minutes of screen time. My battery used to discharge one percent at a time, but now it seems like it's stuck on a certain percentage, and then some time later it drastically drops. The battery app sort of confirms that... there always used to be a steady line going down. Now it's always a straight line (battery not discharging), and then a sharp vertical line going down).
I charged my phone to a 100% with a power outlet just now, it seems to be discharging normally again. I am at 93% now, the phone was charged 4 hours ago, screen time is 15 minutes. Is this normal? Seems sort of normal to me.. I can't tell what normal is anymore. I am able to get about 3.5-4 hours of screen time (unless I am playing GTA vice city, then two hours at most).
BetterBatteryStats doesn't show anything too suspicious, there are no partial wakelocks however the phone does stay awake a little bit longer than screen time, but just a tiny bit — it's still in deep sleep mode most of the time.
Is my battery malfunctioning? Should I RMA? I have two days to decide, urgh.
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dude, cool down, it's all good... if you get 3-4 hours screen time, it's all ok. sometimes androids start acting weird battery wise. if you see strange things happening with your battery, reboot the phone. if this doesn't help, power it off and charge it up to 100%. unplug it and do not power it on for 60 minutes.
power it on then, it should be ok then. if not, another reboot then always fixed it for me (and all my other android-devices).
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Hi,
I got my second android phone (LG G2 obviously) this christmas, and I haven't had time to properly use it (I don't have a micro SIM yet). I noticed that my battery is going empty pretty fast, although I heard this phone has a amazing battery. My friend got this phone too and he told he's been on one charge for about 36 hours with constant wi-fi connection, app downloading, playing games etc. so I figured something's off. I charged the device before going to bed and when I woke up (10 hrs later) battery was on 85% (only 2 MINUTES of screen time!!!!) and I had no apps running on the backround, no nothing. So now I'm thinking is there some easy fix for this or should I return it and get a replacement? Also something weird I noticed yesterday was that even though I don't have a SIM card yet, but 16% of the battery was used by the phone application. I did some screenshots of battery usage today and yesterday too if anyone's interested.
There are literally dozens of similar threads... suggest you start searching.
And I literally have gone through 90% of them so I decided to start a new thead. Do you (or someone) think that a factory reset could help? And the next question might sound stupid, but if I do a factory reset then does the warranty remain? Better safe than sorry I guess
I just played 4 minuts of hill climb racing and lost 3% of my battery, this is not normal. Does anyone even have a solution for this? All I see on other threads is questions and questions, but I don't see anyone saying "That worked and my battery life is normal now"
It's normal if screen is bright. Especially if carrier bloat is still there. Post screens, all you have, and what carrier. The phone could have been sick in a search state.
I don't think my phone is tied to any carrier, it was bought from just a regular electronics shop, but frankly I did a facory reset and didn't realize that all my screenshots will be gone too. Do you really think it's normal that 10 hrs of idling causes 15% battery loss? And it has the stock LG apps (safety care, life square, cell broadcast etc.). What do you mean by "The phone could have been sick in a search state."? My screen brightness is on 70%.
It's normal with bloat in it. They all have bloat stock. 70 is high and can eat at the battery pretty good. I mean it could have software glitched and was struck searching for activation behind the scenes. Use Wake Lock Detector and see what is keeping it awake.
This, almost 20% drop was caused by downloading 3 apps (facebook, facebook messenger and twitter), updating ~10 apps (all done via wi-fi) and rearranging my home screen.
Steamer86, are you sure? My friend told me that he has been 36 hrs on one charge without changing any settings and just downloading apps, playing games and testing the phone.
Your idle is great at that point in time. Facebook is a battery killer. That's a lot of activity with 70% brightness all the time. It's 17% and medium higher side usage and an hour+ of screen time. What are you expecting? At this rate with 70% constant screen and Wi-Fi pushing pretty good you would get almost 6 hours OST. That isn't bad bud.
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Your idle is great at that point in time. Facebook is a battery killer. That's a lot of activity with 70% brightness all the time. It's 17% and medium higher side usage and an hour+ of screen time. What are you expecting? At this rate with 70% constant screen and Wi-Fi pushing pretty good you would get almost 6 hours OST. That isn't bad bud.
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I hope you are right, but for helping and giving advice I'm going to hit that 'thanks' button
This night i lost 18% of my battery and my phone was almost all the time on deep sleep.
But i did notice something weird, battery usage shows that Android OS is using up most of my battery and when I press on it and then hit the back button then the Android OS changes to something called surfaceflinger for a millisecond (check the screenshots)
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This night i lost 18% of my battery and my phone was almost all the time on deep sleep.
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Can you try putting your phone in airplane mode and then turn on Wi-Fi? If you aren't using a cell carrier than there's no need to keep that on.
See how this works in increasing battery life for you.
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Each time I reboot my OPT, the battery level drops by at least 4-5%. I also find the phone takes pretty long to boot in general (around half a minute, if not more). With my Huawei Mate 7, rebooting was a matter of seconds, and the battery hardly lost 1% in the process. (The phone had other issues, though ...)
Who is experiencing the same? What could be the issue? Purely apps autostarting, or could it be something else? Note that I am rooted, running Xposed (with only 2 modules: GravityBox and VibrateMode) and on Boeffla Kernel beta15. I don't use Greenify and Amplify (anymore) and don't perform any heavy tasks on startup, except for loading some widgets (Google News & Weather, Google Calendar and Google Keep).
Same
Happens to me as well, using the same kernel, though i use kernel Auditor app too which starts on reboot, have greenify aswell .. battery drains by 4-5% on a reboot
Wow ... this is really such bulls**t ...
I adjusted multiple settings today that each needed a reboot. First I was at 30% battery, after the reboot I was suddenly at 20%. Note that before that, the indicated battery percentage had stayed at 30% for about two hours, despite being on mobile data with apps running in the background (not normal!) Then, I made a nother reboot. Immediately after that, the battery was at 17%, then suddenly dropped to 15% after several minutes, and several minutes later again to 11%.
Clearly this is a bug in how OOS calculates the battery percentage and something OnePlus needs to address in (one of) the next system update(s).
EDIT: LOL ... while I wrote this, my battery dropped to 7% ...
i can second this..., so if you dont want your battery to drop, dont reboot! LoL, kind pain in the *ss
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i can second this..., so if you dont want your battery to drop, dont reboot! LoL, kind pain in the *ss
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Yeah, but you sometimes have to, like when updating an Xposed module or changing a setting that requries a reboot ... though I admit, none of this happens on a daily basis.
I tried soft reboots, but those seem to lead to issues with the phone recognizing the network carrier correctly ...
Hello, OnePlus, are you going to fix all of these annoying bugs in the next OOS update?
Today: percentage stuck at 44%, down to 41% after reboot, drop to 33% after several minutes. This is the most extreme case I have experienced yet ...
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Yeah, but you sometimes have to, like when updating an Xposed module or changing a setting that requries a reboot ... though I admit, none of this happens on a daily basis.
I tried soft reboots, but those seem to lead to issues with the phone recognizing the network carrier correctly ...
Hello, OnePlus, are you going to fix all of these annoying bugs in the next OOS update?
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That's exactly why i only updating xposed modules, adaway host etc at night before sleeping with the phone plugged to wall charger, LoL
Like those?
First time that happens to me.
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First time that happens to me.
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Whoa! I never had it THAT extreme ... I wonder what is wrong with the way the battery percentage is calculated. Seems like something with the calibration is way off in OOS.
Another observation: This doesn't seem to happen when the battery is freshly charged. I just did 2 reboots after charging to 100%, the first time it dropped to 99%, the second time to 97%. -> more evidence that the percentage isn't properly calculated while the phone is in use, hence these heavy drops from time to time vs. percentage staying the same for multiple hours.
Yep I'm seeing this too, mine even appeared to jump up after a reboot a couple of times
I am having the same issues, easily leading to 5-10% less battery after rebooting!
Also, my battery goes through the first 15 % or so very easily and then settles, there is clearly something wrong with the calibration!
There is clearly something very wrong with the battery calibration and/or the way OOS calculates the remaining battery percentage/time. I charged my phone to 100% percent over night, played a power-hungry 3D game on the train for 30 minutes, then flashed the latest Boeffla Kernel and did two reboots. I was at 78% after playing and at 64% after the second reboot (which seems "normal"), now my phone is idling at 64% since 2 hours.
Notice that the remaining time is shown as less than 2 hrs, and has been like that for 2 hrs ... this is highly unlikely. Also, what's the big gap there? The reboots surely didn't take half an hour ...
I also experienced this battery percentage stuck thing it stuck at 24%for few hours during that period my cellular data is on and sot is also half an hour during that time.
After that battery percentage suddenly drops to 20%.
Was experiencing the same, I tried calibrating my battery (Let it die, then charge it while it's off to 100%, run a battery calibration app, restart, charge it again to 100%), I used a 5V/1.8A LG adaptor (and not the original one, which seems to mess up touch sensitivity) and it seems to be fixed by now.
Hello guys!
I've been wondering - how your phones behave when they run out of juice?
All my previous phones were going from 100% to 1% without any problems, then, when the battery was at 0% there was a message that Android is shutting down and the phone then turned off. Normal thing.
However on my G6, I've NEVER had such message, also my battery never went to 0% or even 1%. It always stays at 3% for some time, then suddenly it drops to like... 2% and then it shuts down instantly without any warning. Sometimes it shuts down at 3%... Just turns off, no message displayed.
And before you reply - yes, I know that I should never drop the battery that low but sometimes it's not that easy when I'm travelling somewhere and my powerbank is also dead. But I'm very curious how your phones behave, that's why I'm asking
Besides - one time I had a problem with my battery when it was around 30% and my phone cooled down to like... 0 degrees Celsius. It also turned off instantly and was dead until I warmed it up. Did you have such problem too?
Thanks in advance!
"unfortunately" LGs have always had that behavior, similar to the "longer 100%".
About this some users believed that LG battery percentage is calculated differently according to the user usage, but who knows the truth...
Only thing I could say you for certain is that it's "normal" on LGs
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Hello guys!
I've been wondering - how your phones behave when they run out of juice?
All my previous phones were going from 100% to 1% without any problems, then, when the battery was at 0% there was a message that Android is shutting down and the phone then turned off. Normal thing.
However on my G6, I've NEVER had such message, also my battery never went to 0% or even 1%. It always stays at 3% for some time, then suddenly it drops to like... 2% and then it shuts down instantly without any warning. Sometimes it shuts down at 3%... Just turns off, no message displayed.
And before you reply - yes, I know that I should never drop the battery that low but sometimes it's not that easy when I'm travelling somewhere and my powerbank is also dead. But I'm very curious how your phones behave, that's why I'm asking
Besides - one time I had a problem with my battery when it was around 30% and my phone cooled down to like... 0 degrees Celsius. It also turned off instantly and was dead until I warmed it up. Did you have such problem too?
Thanks in advance!
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So, my last 5 phones was an LG and i guarantee you this is normal with LG phones.
In the first ten or eleven chargings the phone should drop like 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and shut down at 1% but fast when change from 2 to 1.
when well calibrated i mean let it discharge fully 1 time per month and they only should shut down when it reach 2%. LG phones only go at 1% when new and always go off at 2.
I dont know why your phone dont display the shutting down message isnt normal because my LG phones everyone of them show it, maybe is too fast and you dont see it was i belive it is.
My G6 was only about 1 week and only shutting off at 1% but my V10 shut down almost at 3%.
The 100% bug is an LG thing but for me this is a calibration method different than Sony, because sony will go 0% before go off and LG dont.
DOnt you worry, is normal but if you can charge it when have 30 - 35% is better because leave it discharging too many times lowers the cicle of life than a battery can last.