My Nexus 4 is just over a year old. It has been performing really well throughout this period. A month back, the soft buttons on the screen stopped working and I got the screen replaced. The phone was working very well even after this. I am running only the stock Android. I haven't rooted the phone yet.
Over the last few days, the battery discharge has been fast and unpredictable. I have attached the Battery screenshot. I shall explain the sequence of events to describe the screenshot.
The battery goes from 40-50 to 0 in one go! (the first downward steep drop). Phone had already switched off. I connected it to a charging point and restarted the phone.
While the phone was being charged (the slow upward red slope), I did some research on this. Since, Google Play Services was consuming most of the battery, the following solution seemed to be good to follow.
(Disable Hangouts, sign out of Google+, turn ON Location Reporting, reboot, then reenable Hangouts and sign back into G+),
I tried this. Once I rebooted, the battery power was 56% !! (The steep upward climb)
I used it for some time. And kept it on charge to charge it completely. But after some time, the battery charge dropped to 19% (the second drop in the screenshot). I rebooted the phone again. And this resulted in the next battery charge spike upto 45%!!
I tried searching for Hangouts app or Google+ app on the phone. But they no longer exist in the app drawer.
Is this a battery issue? Or some software issue? Should I try a factory reset?
Edit1: Added a larger image of the battery stats.
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That is some really strange behavior. It either can be a software or a hardware issue.
You may do a factory reset and install a factory image. Be sure that you charge your batterie to maximum first before doing the reset. If there is still this drops than it mostly is a hardware issue. Replacing the batterie could help.
Also a huge N4 fan. High five for that! ;D
CCody said:
That is some really strange behavior. It either can be a software or a hardware issue.
You may do a factory reset and install a factory image. Be sure that you charge your batterie to maximum first before doing the reset. If there is still this drops than it mostly is a hardware issue. Replacing the batterie could help.
Also a huge N4 fan. High five for that! ;D
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Yes. Concerned about the battery
I havent rooted the phone. Would I need to do that for installing a factory image?
P.S. I have added another image with a better depiction of the battery behavior.
harishvr9 said:
Yes. Concerned about the battery
I havent rooted the phone. Would I need to do that for installing a factory image?
P.S. I have added another image with a better depiction of the battery behavior.
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You just need an open bootloader. Root is not required.
CCody said:
You just need an open bootloader. Root is not required.
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Wouldn't a simple factory reset from the phone's menu suffice? What is the difference?
Like I said before, try a normal factory reset first and if this does not work then flash a factory image. In the most case a normal factory reset will do.
The difference between a reset and a factory image is like a white shirt you are washing. A reset is like putting this shirt in the washing machine if it has stains. It will be white and clean again. But after some time those stains wouldn't go away completely and your white shirt isn't that white like before anymore. Flashing a factory image will be like buying a new white shirt.
@harishvr9: If you want to be 100 sure it is not a software issue, you should flash the latest factory image on your phone with fastboot. For this, you will need a working fastboot or (Android SDK) on your computer, the N4 factory image from HERE and being able to boot into bootloader mode (VolDown+Power).
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@harishvr9: If you want to be 100 sure it is not a software issue, you should flash the latest factory image on your phone with fastboot. For this, you will need a working fastboot or (Android SDK) on your computer, the N4 factory image from HERE and being able to boot into bootloader mode (VolDown+Power).
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Thanks !! I am sure there would be a thread on XDA to guide me on this!
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My Nexus 4 is just over a year old. It has been performing really well throughout this period. A month back, the soft buttons on the screen stopped working and I got the screen replaced. The phone was working very well even after this. I am running only the stock Android. I haven't rooted the phone yet.
Over the last few days, the battery discharge has been fast and unpredictable. I have attached the Battery screenshot. I shall explain the sequence of events to describe the screenshot.
The battery goes from 40-50 to 0 in one go! (the first downward steep drop). Phone had already switched off. I connected it to a charging point and restarted the phone.
While the phone was being charged (the slow upward red slope), I did some research on this. Since, Google Play Services was consuming most of the battery, the following solution seemed to be good to follow.
(Disable Hangouts, sign out of Google+, turn ON Location Reporting, reboot, then reenable Hangouts and sign back into G+),
I tried this. Once I rebooted, the battery power was 56% !! (The steep upward climb)
I used it for some time. And kept it on charge to charge it completely. But after some time, the battery charge dropped to 19% (the second drop in the screenshot). I rebooted the phone again. And this resulted in the next battery charge spike upto 45%!!
I tried searching for Hangouts app or Google+ app on the phone. But they no longer exist in the app drawer.
Is this a battery issue? Or some software issue? Should I try a factory reset?
Edit1: Added a larger image of the battery stats.
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Same symptoms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/help/nexus-4-sudden-signal-loss-battery-t2797981
Erovia said:
@harishvr9: If you want to be 100 sure it is not a software issue, you should flash the latest factory image on your phone with fastboot. For this, you will need a working fastboot or (Android SDK) on your computer, the N4 factory image from HERE and being able to boot into bootloader mode (VolDown+Power).
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@CCody and @Erovia .. pls Help ..
I unlocked the bootloader. But when I am trying to flash the factory image via flash command i get this response.
""flash is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file".
What did I do wrong? Fastboot.exe is there in the sdk/platform-tools folder.
Now I am stuck on the "Lock State - Unlocked " screen
Edit - Got it working !! Thanks a ton! Will report whether it worked or not
@harishvr9: The easiest way is to run the flash-all.bat (on Windows) or the flash-all.sh (Linux/OSX). It will flash the bootloader, the radio, reformat your partitions and copy the files on them.
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@harishvr9: The easiest way is to run the flash-all.bat (on Windows) or the flash-all.sh (Linux/OSX). It will flash the bootloader, the radio, reformat your partitions and copy the files on them.
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Thanks!! Got it working somehow. Will update about the performance by tomorrow.
Damn, I am a bit late. I am sorry for that.
Let us stay updated in any cases!
CCody said:
Damn, I am a bit late. I am sorry for that.
Let us stay updated in any cases!
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@Erovia and @CCody
I am back with an update. I had installed the factory image of 4.4.3 stock android. The system notified me about an update and the notification was lingering on the screen. So I ran the update. The weird thing was that the battery was at 85% before it restarted. After it updated and rebooted, the battery was at 36%!
Now what does this infer? Battery issue? Or 4.4.4 update issue?
Thanks in advance for the support !!
Why didn't you flash the 4.4.4?
Anyway, charge it to 100% and see what happens.
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@Erovia and @CCody
I am back with an update. I had installed the factory image of 4.4.3 stock android. The system notified me about an update and the notification was lingering on the screen. So I ran the update. The weird thing was that the battery was at 85% before it restarted. After it updated and rebooted, the battery was at 36%!
Now what does this infer? Battery issue? Or 4.4.4 update issue?
Thanks in advance for the support !!
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I would suggest to try this ROM out for a few days and if this issue still occurs, than it is no doubt this is a hardware issue.
Have you already charge your batterie to maximum once?
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I would suggest to try this ROM out for a few days and if this issue still occurs, than it is no doubt this is a hardware issue.
Have you already charge your batterie to maximum once?
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Doing it now. Will leave it without charge overnight to see how it fares. Tomorrow is gonna be a long day. The battery better stay with me !
harishvr9 said:
Doing it now. Will leave it without charge overnight to see how it fares. Tomorrow is gonna be a long day. The battery better stay with me !
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May the amp will be with you, mate. :good:
harishvr9 said:
@Erovia and @CCody
I am back with an update. I had installed the factory image of 4.4.3 stock android. The system notified me about an update and the notification was lingering on the screen. So I ran the update. The weird thing was that the battery was at 85% before it restarted. After it updated and rebooted, the battery was at 36%!
Now what does this infer? Battery issue? Or 4.4.4 update issue?
Thanks in advance for the support !!
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Why didn't you flash to 4.2.2 and waited for couple days. All of us that have same problem like you got it after 4.4.3
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Rajnus said:
Why didn't you flash to 4.2.2 and waited for couple days. All of us that have same problem like you got it after 4.4.3
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Did you mean to say 4.4.2 or 4.2.2 ? Guess 4.4.2 ran well on my device.
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A Little History: :silly:
I have been running i9220ZCLP1...known bad kernel since whenever it was first available, April I think. Anyways, acquired that through flashing Rocketrom v5, according to the instructions provided at the time. Everything worked fine, other than contacts crashing and the wlan some times not enabling until reboot...common issues, as far as I've seen on these forums. One thing to note, is that unless the instructions at the time asked for a full wipe after flashing 5 (I'm almost certain they did not), then there has not been a full wipe performed while in this kernel.
The current issue:
The other day my phone froze on me...months after flashing and having used this kernel, waiting for something more solid to come out. After it froze...holding the power button turned it off, but the phone would not boot afterwards...to ics, to recovery, to download mode, nothing.
After some fiddling, I realized that it will charge and once it buzzes and the screen comes on showing a full battery, I can turn the phone on and it will boot...then freeze after getting past unlock screen. Or freeze and go black in download mode...didn't try recovery, wasn't interested in it at the time, but I'd imagine the same.
After removing the battery for a few days, then plugging it in til full charge notification, I was able to get it to boot again, where it froze at the boot screen, but went dark. After one more full charge...oddly, like a minute later, it booted to ICS fine and worked for 24 hours or so.
Now:
With a mind to flashing away from the bad kernel, I restarted the phone tonight from the menu in ics... it booted fine, so I left it plugged in to get a full charge and came back to a phone, screen still on, that shows same battery % as when I left it. And I'm back to where I started with this problem, powered off after holding power button a few seconds and now nothing.
Waiting for a full charge again, to see what happens...I'm guessing/hoping I'll be able to get it to boot again, with some more fiddling...
My question is whether this sounds like it's hardware (battery etc) or software (bad kernel etc) that is causing the problem.
If I can get it into download mode...plugged in, obviously, should I try OdinPC to a safe kernel?
Thoughts would be awesome. :fingers-crossed:
How about flashing stock GB via pc odin first and getting safe?
apurvapatel said:
How about flashing stock GB via pc odin first and getting safe?
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+1 I've read a few people on ICS having charging/battery related issues over time. Worth seeing if it still happens on a gb kernel.
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apurvapatel said:
How about flashing stock GB via pc odin first and getting safe?
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OK, that's one vote for flash if I can get it running again. Thx, glad you read my post.
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+1 I've read a few people on ICS having charging/battery related issues over time. Worth seeing if it still happens on a gb kernel.
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Hmm, but how to get there...GB and all.
So now the vote is software. Any idea why this would happen much much later? No battery issues at all, just suddenly.
Maybe I'll buy a battery.
nebreprah said:
Hmm, but how to get there...GB and all.
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A little searching would show you DrKentan's guide @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1424997
I just transferred a movie on it two days ago. I have been on a road trip the past week and using a car adapter during that week (2.1 amp) and navigation. and navigation. Yesterday I was staying at someone else's house and kept losing signal in their house a lot and the battery went down fast. I plugged it into the way to charge like I have every night. When I went to bed I checked and it hadn't really charged at all. So I closed the location stuff that had destroyed the battery and went to bed. I woke up in the middle of the night to my phone vibrating from a reboot and it was ridiculously hot. It hadn't charged much. I used it for navigation on the way home and it charged in the car at a pretty normal speed. When I got home it won't connect to my computer.
I can't get adb to work, in the OS or recovery. Doesn't get recognized in the bootloader either. I tried multiple computers. It sometimes shows up as 'unknown device' and I uninstalled it once thinking i could re install it and it never showed up again.
I would go back to stock to try and fix it if I could, but I can't transfer anything to my phone.
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I just transferred a movie on it two days ago. I have been on a road trip the past week and using a car adapter during that week (2.1 amp) and navigation. and navigation. Yesterday I was staying at someone else's house and kept losing signal in their house a lot and the battery went down fast. I plugged it into the way to charge like I have every night. When I went to bed I checked and it hadn't really charged at all. So I closed the location stuff that had destroyed the battery and went to bed. I woke up in the middle of the night to my phone vibrating from a reboot and it was ridiculously hot. It hadn't charged much. I used it for navigation on the way home and it charged in the car at a pretty normal speed. When I got home it won't connect to my computer.
I can't get adb to work, in the OS or recovery. Doesn't get recognized in the bootloader either. I tried multiple computers. It sometimes shows up as 'unknown device' and I uninstalled it once thinking i could re install it and it never showed up again.
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Same here. I am still searching for a workaround. I think it is a USB brick.
Download a ROM from XDA onto your phone and boot into recovery from the power button (assuming you have something like CM10.1 installed. I'm sure there are other apps that can boot into recovery also). Then you can wipe/flash from there and start fresh and see if the problem persists. No need for ADB here.
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Download a ROM from XDA onto your phone and boot into recovery from the power button (assuming you have something like CM10.1 installed. I'm sure there are other apps that can boot into recovery also). Then you can wipe/flash from there and start fresh and see if the problem persists. No need for ADB here.
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I installed almost every ROM and kernel there is, there's no connection via USB and the battery life is just terrible (around 6 hours until it's completely empty).
Read through some of your posts Ultraschorsch and I'm definitely in the same boat. I have airdroid to transfer files, but it's slow. I'm gonna try to go to the deodexed stock rom and kernel (but still rooted), and hope I get lucky.
I've already gone into recovery and wiped and reflashed in every combination I could think of and that hasn't helped. It's very frustrating.
I seems like it heated up so much that it destroyed the usb chip on it or something, and it wiped the info of what kind of device it's supposed to be or something. It was seriously so hot that I couldn't hold it in my hand (and that's with a case on it).
This is really a pain in the neck since we can't unroot it any more, so no RMA for us, I really hope there will be a solution to this problem. On the HTC Desire it was fixed through CWM but they need to find a workaround before. I am really a little hopeless...
I use dropbox to transfer files on my N4, I think it's faster than airdroid.
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This is really a pain in the neck since we can't unroot it any more, so no RMA for us, I really hope there will be a solution to this problem. On the HTC Desire it was fixed through CWM but they need to find a workaround before. I am really a little hopeless...
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Can too! read here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34749844&postcount=2
This is what I'm going to do and try to get an RMA tomorrow.
Also, I feel like the only solution would be to open the device. It seems like something actually broke when it overheated when this happened, so it needs to be replaced. whatever IT is.
Dude! If this works I really owe you! I'm going to try this tomorrow! Thanks in advance! :good:
If it works post back here so I (and future people with this problem) know!
So since the previous guide without usb has broken links here is what I did thanks to efrant's help:
Use BootUnlocker app from Play Market to LOCK the bootloader.
Flash this rom (odexed JOP40D - rooted)
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B76WZ1xWiSuNSkN0Q01tdjhWdDA/edit
flash this boot image
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36534366&postcount=214
flash this recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36422317&postcount=207
Remove busybox and root following the steps posted in the above boot image post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36534366&postcount=214
Hello,
Thanks for this tutorial, do i have to lock the bootloader first? I was thinking it was the last thing to do...
(I have to return the phone to google, so I need to restore everything)
studjuice said:
So since the previous guide without usb has broken links here is what I did thanks to efrant's help:
Use BootUnlocker app from Play Market to LOCK the bootloader.
Flash this rom (odexed JOP40D - rooted)
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B76WZ1xWiSuNSkN0Q01tdjhWdDA/edit
flash this boot image
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36534366&postcount=214
flash this recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36422317&postcount=207
Remove busybox and root following the steps posted in the above boot image post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36534366&postcount=214
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Hello all,
This is my first post in here and the reason why I'm here, is that I got the exact problem as mentioned in the opening post.
I've got my N4 last thursday, so 1 week ago. It worked like a charm and since I was busy finding out all the stuff and apps, I hadn't connect it to my PC before the weekend started.
Saturday in the morning I left for a trip and I navigated to the destination, using my car charger. The phone became extremely hot but it was the first time I tried the navigation, so I tought it was 'normal'.
That day and the days after (until today) my battery drained like hell, 6 hours standby with max. 45 minutes of active usage and it is empty.
So I started looking out for a custom ROM to solve it. But I never could connect it properly to my PC. Tried different PC's and different cables. Never a proper connection, only 'usb not recognized' or no connection at all!
Luckily I couldn't connect...because now it's still in the unlocked state as when I got it.
Today I'm going to call the company where I've bought it and ask for an RMA. Only problem is...they imported it from another country since the device isn't for sale in my country (Netherlands).
I'll keep you up to date.
MY nexus 4 is not going into sleep mode..i am on android 4.3 ..sometimes it goes into deepsleep perfectly and then suddenly it just doesnt sleep .. i checked wakelock detector and saw that it isnt going into sleep mode ..i checked better battery stats and power manager service is the one keeping the device awake .. then i went into battery and saw that android os is keeping the device awake! when i reboot the device then it goes into sleep mode properly but then again randomly it stops sleeping ... some1 plz helpp .. its causing too much battery drain..
the bbs log file is attatched
I hav uploaded some screen shots too but they are not the ones with the bbs log ..they wer taken at a different time..
same thing for me too.
Cjshino said:
same thing for me too.
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what is your android version and which rom?? rooted or not?
zerohunk said:
what is your android version and which rom?? rooted or not?
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4.3 rooted, stock everything
try with wakelock detector or similar....
The statistics of default android battery gives no specific information
XaviCampos said:
try with wakelock detector or similar....
The statistics of default android battery gives no specific information
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i tried wake lock detector .. it showed that the device is being held awake but in the wakelocks tab there was nothing that was keeping the device awake for so long
Do you have alarms or anything of sort? (it might matter)
Disable all syncs, try to off (most) of those chat apps like wechat and line etc(go to settings>apps force stop), wechat in particular drains quite a lot.
I don't use stock but mine is close to it but I deleted lots of bloats from TB.
I only leave whatsapp on.
Infact, try out using Airplane, if even in airplane the battery still sucks, try reflashing everything using bootloader.
the thread title says that your n4 doesnt go into sleep mode.. where do you have something showing this?? battery loss does not equal not going into sleep mode. have you checked if your device goes into sleep mode, or are you just assuming? use something like cpu spy to see if your device is going into sleep mode..
Indeed, try CPU Spy. I use unrooted stock 4.3 and mine deep-sleeps just fine.
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simms22 said:
the thread title says that your n4 doesnt go into sleep mode.. where do you have something showing this?? battery loss does not equal not going into sleep mode. have you checked if your device goes into sleep mode, or are you just assuming? use something like cpu spy to see if your device is going into sleep mode..
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this happened when i rebooted it .. it went into deep sleep perfectly for 2-3 hours after that and then after 3 hours it stopped going into deep sleep again even with screen off for 4-5 hours more..
here are some screenshots of my current batteery stats
zerohunk said:
this happened when i rebooted it .. it went into deep sleep perfectly for 2-3 hours after that and then after 3 hours it stopped going into deep sleep again even with screen off for 4-5 hours more..
here are some screenshots of my current batteery stats
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those screenies tell a better story. 48% android os is way to high! it seems as it gets stuck doing something.
simms22 said:
those screenies tell a better story. 48% android os is way to high! it seems as it gets stuck doing something.
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yess .. i dont know what to do.. will factory reseting solve it??
zerohunk said:
yess .. i dont know what to do.. will factory reseting solve it??
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Since update I'm having the same problem as OP has. Reboot solves problem for a day or two, but it returns.
I'm at the point when I'm ready to try factory reset.
andrewf403 said:
Since update I'm having the same problem as OP has. Reboot solves problem for a day or two, but it returns.
I'm at the point when I'm ready to try factory reset.
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yaaa evn i am looking for a solution
This is battery stats from the first day after OTA: http://imgur.com/Bn9B8FA
You can clearly see when device stop going to sleep, and Android OS drained battery for more than 11 hours.
When I saw this, I rebooted the phone, and next day everything was OK. Battery life was even better, than with 4.2.2. But after third day, Android OS was again on top of the list. Again, reboot had solved problem only temporary. Wake lock stats app does not show anything unusual. I'm runing stock not rooted firmware. If I do not find any solution, I'll just wipe it on weekend in hope it'll help.
@zerohunk @andrewf403
Hi, I was facing the same issue.
So did you guys do a factory reset? Did it solve the problem?
mlj11 said:
@zerohunk @andrewf403
Hi, I was facing the same issue.
So did you guys do a factory reset? Did it solve the problem?
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I made a new thread with all the data, in hope that somebody could help figure this out, but two days and no one else posted there) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2392155
Nexus 4 is my main phone and I rely on it in my work very much, so I'm trying to postpone factory reset as far as possible. I think I'll have not very busy day on Thursday so I'll finally reset it and reinstall everything.
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I made a new thread with all the data, in hope that somebody could help figure this out, but two days and no one else posted there) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2392155
Nexus 4 is my main phone and I rely on it in my work very much, so I'm trying to postpone factory reset as far as possible. I think I'll have not very busy day on Thursday so I'll finally reset it and reinstall everything.
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Hi, I just replied in your new thread.
delete.....
mlj11 said:
@zerohunk @andrewf403
Hi, I was facing the same issue.
So did you guys do a factory reset? Did it solve the problem?
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factory reset did not solve the problem for me .. i am trying to find out what is the app/reason which keeps the device awake so that i can by any means avoid using it or something :/ .. but no one seems to have an idea .. can anyone atleast find out and let us know which app/setting or whatever is causing the phone to stay awake??
Hi.
I have been having very strange issues with my battery, and I hope that there are some people here who know about the hardware more than I do and might be able to help me.
First of all, the battery indicator is unstable, it can show me 49% of battery and suddenly tell me there is only 10% left. I am attaching a screenshot of my battery stats where those spikes are visible.
Or worse, the battery indicator might suddenly jump to 0% and make the phone turn off, then when I turn it on it shows that it has at least 25% left.
Second problem, I very often can't charge the phone. I connect the charger, and the notification LED doesn't light yellow, instead, the whole battery menu just disappears from the settings so I can't access it... And after a few hours it might begin actually charging, then the menu is visible.
Battery temp always shows -30 degrees celsius, or some similarly impossible temperature.
After trying to switch to a different kernel (from unleashed to hells core) and to a different rom (from purity to android L and liquidsmooth) I decided this is an hardware problem and bought a new (hopefully original) battery on ebay.
I installed the new battery. Now it does work a little bit better, but still, the problems persist.
Is there anything I can do, before buying a new phone?
It doesn't have warranty anymore, it's one and a half years old.
Thanks
Definitely battery failure. Replace the battery or buy a new phone
Sent from my Nexus 4
This is most definitely due to a faulty battery, so time to get a new phone. At least Shamu's release is right around the corner.
Hi
Thanks for your help.
I did replace the battery a few days ago, and the problem still persists. Which makes me think it's something else.
romitkin said:
Hi
Thanks for your help.
I did replace the battery a few days ago, and the problem still persists. Which makes me think it's something else.
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I'd try comletly stock rom, and see if the issue persists.
Yup, stock ROM always first step, then replace battery. If it still persists, than it is most likely some other hardware issue that might not be worth it to replace.
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romitkin said:
Hi
Thanks for your help.
I did replace the battery a few days ago, and the problem still persists. Which makes me think it's something else.
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Exactly same situation with my Nexus 4. Battery being replaced and it's not better. Just ordered a Moto X 2014 and waiting for it.
I tried the stock ROM. And it didn't solve the problem. Is there anything else I can check about the hardware before replacing the whole phone?
romitkin said:
I tried the stock ROM. And it didn't solve the problem. Is there anything else I can check about the hardware before replacing the whole phone?
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Have you just flashed a stock rom, or completley restored the phone to factory settings using google factory images?
Serris said:
Have you just flashed a stock rom, or completley restored the phone to factory settings using google factory images?
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I used a factory image, it deleted everything including my sd-card etc
romitkin said:
I used a factory image, it deleted everything including my sd-card etc
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Hmm unfortunately this leaves me without any ideas. May ask how old is your phone and did you drop it previously?
It's one and a half years old, and well, I did drop it a lot.However, I always used a good case (ringke fusion) and I don't recall any recent drops prior to the time the problems started.
Hello,
Been struggling a lot with my battery drain since I bought my 6t.
I am unrooted and now with 9.0.7, I already uninstalled a lot of apps to try and locate the root cause for my battery drain. I never had social apps which I know can misbehave a lot.
I have location, nfc, etc always turned off, battery optimisation settings always on.
I installed better battery settings and what you see is during my sleep, and the phone drained a lot once more.
Another issue I am having is that each time the phone reboots the find my device is activated even after I set it to not do anything.
I need help though, I quite do not understand what I should do now.
What is my problem? What can I do to achieve the crazy screen on time some of you have? More, I would be happy to just solve the screen off battery drain. One day I had over 40% drain without using the phone more than 5 minutes.
Can someone please help me out?
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cesar.maranhao said:
Hello,
Been struggling a lot with my battery drain since I bought my 6t.
I am unrooted and now with 9.0.7, I already uninstalled a lot of apps to try and locate the root cause for my battery drain. I never had social apps which I know can misbehave a lot.
I have location, nfc, etc always turned off, battery optimisation settings always on.
I installed better battery settings and what you see is during my sleep, and the phone drained a lot once more.
Another issue I am having is that each time the phone reboots the find my device is activated even after I set it to not do anything.
I need help though, I quite do not understand what I should do now.
What is my problem? What can I do to achieve the crazy screen on time some of you have? More, I would be happy to just solve the screen off battery drain. One day I had over 40% drain without using the phone more than 5 minutes.
Can someone please help me out?
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The problem is that you messed up your stock Rom in the process of unrooting. My best advice is to root your phone again and back up everything with Titanium Backup. After that, use MSM download to return to stock ( The same software state you had it in when you first bought it). I can assure you that the hardware is fine, but misbehaving software will only cause more harm to your phone. No one will provide you with a simple fix like a flashable zip and dont panic because its not that big of a deal. I bricked my 6t right after misreading instructions, but it recovered and its heavily modded. Go back to stock and start over
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cesar.maranhao said:
Hello,
Been struggling a lot with my battery drain since I bought my 6t.
I am unrooted and now with 9.0.7, I already uninstalled a lot of apps to try and locate the root cause for my battery drain. I never had social apps which I know can misbehave a lot.
I have location, nfc, etc always turned off, battery optimisation settings always on.
I installed better battery settings and what you see is during my sleep, and the phone drained a lot once more.
Another issue I am having is that each time the phone reboots the find my device is activated even after I set it to not do anything.
I need help though, I quite do not understand what I should do now.
What is my problem? What can I do to achieve the crazy screen on time some of you have? More, I would be happy to just solve the screen off battery drain. One day I had over 40% drain without using the phone more than 5 minutes.
Can someone please help me out?
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I came up with that answer without checking those screenshots, but now its obvious. By unrooted, do you mean you had root and then unrooted or havent attempted anything? The other thing is obvious, your battery is draining because of google play services. I had the same problem, but i removed my gapps because i use better app alternatives that dont require google play services. The other thing is i use services though my browser than having a separate app for everything. I find it safer and i use Brave browser.
Hentai_expert said:
The problem is that you messed up your stock Rom in the process of unrooting. My best advice is to root your phone again and back up everything with Titanium Backup. After that, use MSM download to return to stock ( The same software state you had it in when you first bought it). I can assure you that the hardware is fine, but misbehaving software will only cause more harm to your phone. No one will provide you with a simple fix like a flashable zip and dont panic because its not that big of a deal. I bricked my 6t right after misreading instructions, but it recovered and its heavily modded. Go back to stock and start over
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I came up with that answer without checking those screenshots, but now its obvious. By unrooted, do you mean you had root and then unrooted or havent attempted anything? The other thing is obvious, your battery is draining because of google play services. I had the same problem, but i removed my gapps because i use better app alternatives that dont require google play services. The other thing is i use services though my browser than having a separate app for everything. I find it safer and i use Brave browser.
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You probably got it right, I already had twrp installed but since it was not working I went back to stock. How did you figure that out?
I might need some help to do as you said since I do not want to brick the phone. What if i do a factory reset? Will it cure the problem?
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cesar.maranhao said:
You probably got it right, I already had twrp installed but since it was not working I went back to stock. How did you figure that out?
I might need some help to do as you said since I do not want to brick the phone. What if i do a factory reset? Will it cure the problem?
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A factory reset wont really fix the issue, but you could always give it a try if you backup your precious files first. The problem that i am currently facing on my device is that i cant port Google Camera. I realized that it doesnt work without google play services, but i am not going to start over from stock just to get one app (Doing so fixes everything, but there is a workaround). I am planning on Deodexing my stock ROM and installing MicroG. Its really difficult to find easy instructions , but i gotta challenge myself. Anyways, in your case you just need to give the MSM Download Tool a try, its normally used to unbrick devices and return them to stock. You can always use it in case you mess up your software to the point where flashable zips only cause more issues.
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# 2 Factory Reset or MSM Downloadtool ( Your Choice!) The tool is on the Op6t Forum somewhere.
Hentai_expert said:
A factory reset wont really fix the issue, but you could always give it a try if you backup your precious files first. The problem that i am currently facing on my device is that i cant port Google Camera. I realized that it doesnt work without google play services, but i am not going to start over from stock just to get one app (Doing so fixes everything, but there is a workaround). I am planning on Deodexing my stock ROM and installing MicroG. Its really difficult to find easy instructions , but i gotta challenge myself. Anyways, in your case you just need to give the MSM Download Tool a try, its normally used to unbrick devices and return them to stock. You can always use it in case you mess up your software to the point where flashable zips only cause more issues.
# 1 Backup
# 2 Factory Reset or MSM Downloadtool ( Your Choice!) The tool is on the Op6t Forum somewhere.
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Accessed stock recovery, made a factory reset from there by erasing everything. In about 11 hours the phone used almost 20% battery and no screen on time! Just standing there the whole time. I think I really need to do something, will try that tool you pointed.
No chance of bricking right?
Regards
tried it, it gives me a sahara communication failed. not sure what should I do now.
EDIT: I remember better now. when I got the phone it was on 9.0.4, I updated to 9.0.5. Then I side loaded the temporary and somewhat "compatible" TWRP which I used to flash Magisk. not sure why but root checker said I was not rooted and since an official TWRPO seemed to be far I decided to lock the bootloader (this gave me the official recovery back).
Do you think this is what is causing me the battery drain? everything is working properly to the exception of battery drain.
ANOTHER EDIT: decided to contact oneplus directly and explained the situation (even mentioned I had twrp and that I flashed magisk. they asked me to send the phone so they will see if this is hardware problem or software. not sure if they are going to charge me or not but I think it is unfair to charge (lets wait and see).
Can anyone help me figure out how to solve this problem assuming this is a software issue? I would pretty much like to avoid shipping the phone, never had good experiences with these rma assistance in the past.
Hi Cesar,
Hentai already suggested you how your problem could be solved
Cheers
Hentai_expert said:
A factory reset wont really fix the issue, but you could always give it a try if you backup your precious files first. The problem that i am currently facing on my device is that i cant port Google Camera. I realized that it doesnt work without google play services, but i am not going to start over from stock just to get one app (Doing so fixes everything, but there is a workaround). I am planning on Deodexing my stock ROM and installing MicroG. Its really difficult to find easy instructions , but i gotta challenge myself. Anyways, in your case you just need to give the MSM Download Tool a try, its normally used to unbrick devices and return them to stock. You can always use it in case you mess up your software to the point where flashable zips only cause more issues.
# 1 Backup
# 2 Factory Reset or MSM Downloadtool ( Your Choice!) The tool is on the Op6t Forum somewhere.
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komodo_1 said:
Hi Cesar,
Hentai already suggested you how your problem could be solved
Cheers
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I know but for some reason I cannot have access, it gives me the Sahara error. What should I do?
cesar.maranhao said:
I know but for some reason I cannot have access, it gives me the Sahara error. What should I do?
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The mistake you are committing is this: having installed BBS, you should have taken an idle dump (as described in the OP of the BBS thread) and posted it in the BBS thread asking for help. Screenshots won't help.
Google Play Services by itself rarely drains battery on Oreo and especially Pie. All the apps go through Play Services for their requirements and if there is a misbehaving app, instead of finding it, people blame Play Services (I am not a fanboy of Google).
EDIT: Having said that, I just checked your screenshots. BBS is not functioning properly and the readings are skewed. Which version are you running? From your battery history screenshots, I see that you seem to have about 2% per hour drain. At best it can be brought down to 0.5%. Uninstall BBS, reboot and reinstall it. Let us see whether this time it runs properly.
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6T MsmDownloadTool V4.0 (OOS 9.0.5)
well, was able to get rid of the sahara problem and it worked. lets see if battery life improves or not.
Yes, I am pleased now.
cesar.maranhao said:
well, was able to get rid of the sahara problem and it worked. lets see if battery life improves or not.
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What is sahara problem?
It is related with a communication problem between pc and qualcomm
This phone is very good.
cesar.maranhao said:
This phone is very good.
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Nicee!! What firmware version?
I noticed that every time i disconnect the cable when phone is fully charged after few minutes the percentage drops to 98 and few minutes late to 95 and then is more more longer time to drop to 94 and become Solid the discharge.. Someone know what i can do for fix this issue
I am still in 9.0.7.
I think that drain right after disconnection from the charger also happened to me but not sure how it is now after my "cleaning" ! Before when it was draining a lot I had it for sure but the phone was always sucking battery.