Battery dies at 50% after Lollipop update - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
My girlfriend's Nexus 4 is having problems since she updated it to Lollipop. When it was at 4.4.4 Kit Kat, it was running fine, but since she updated it (OTA), now the phone is always loosing network (always asking for PIN code, like once or twice per 5 minutes) and the phone turns off at about 50% battery without any kind warning. After that happens, the phone only boots if plugged to the charger.
I tried to factory reset it and the problem persisted. The same happened after a manual installation of Lollipop, using adb tools. I don't know what to do know. I will try to revert to 4.4.4 KitKat and see if the same happens, but she would like to continue using Lollipop, because she prefers that OS.
Thanks for your help!

im in a similar situation...
i am in a similar situation....but at 80%, also, doing some hard task will power off the phone, and will not boot untill its in a charger.

You should just avoid over-stressing your batteries every day (which means discharging to 1%, using it too heavily while charging and such).
Lithium batteries have a life cycle, you know.

But she didn't overstressed the battery.. That problem only started after updating to Lollipop. She maintained her charging habits.

I have a friend in the exact same situation. He already factory reset his Nexus 4 and the problem persists. This only started to happen after the Lollipop update. Any ideas?

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[Q] Battery difficulties

I have a D802, unrooted. I bought it online, not from a carrier.
I upgraded it to KitKat a month or two ago (the official update).
Within the last week it has started just losing power when the phone is still reporting 30%+ left on the battery. It does normally seem to die when I'm doing something, rather than when it's just on standby in my pocket. When the screen comes back on after plugging it into the charger it shows the same 30% or 40%.
I have tried a factory reset (albeit using LG backup to restore everything afterwards) and it doesn't seem to have helped.
Does anyone have any information on what might be causing this, and/or how to fix it?
ThatDeadDude said:
I have a D802, unrooted. I bought it online, not from a carrier.
I upgraded it to KitKat a month or two ago (the official update).
Within the last week it has started just losing power when the phone is still reporting 30%+ left on the battery. It does normally seem to die when I'm doing something, rather than when it's just on standby in my pocket. When the screen comes back on after plugging it into the charger it shows the same 30% or 40%.
I have tried a factory reset (albeit using LG backup to restore everything afterwards) and it doesn't seem to have helped.
Does anyone have any information on what might be causing this, and/or how to fix it?
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This is most definitely a battery defect, so a hardware issue. The battery must have lost capacity - I've experienced the same happening with laptop battieries where some "cells" die and the laptop would just shut down at 30% battery.

New Battery - weird charging

Hey all,
so after 2 years using my N4 I bought a new battery since I exchanged my display and sort of damaged the original battery (it was bended, smelled strange (could also be the glue) and I had the feeling it performed worse).
In the beginning I was satisfied but now after some time, I have some weired charging effects:
Using the stock rom (Android 5.0.1), I charge the battery to 100%. If I reboot the phone, the battery percentage dropped back to something between 50%-80%. It will the charge back to 100% within a quite short time. If I reboot again, the battery percentage dropps down again, but not that much. This can be repeated several times... Further, if I boot into recovery (TWRP) after reachin 100%, it also shows something between 50%-70%. After changing the battery and flashing Lolipop, I used an app to "calibrate the battery" - don't know if this helped smth or messed up everything.
Furthermore I noticed sometimes, that battery percentage drops down instantly about 20-30% within a sec while using the phone normally.
Is it just a bad replacement battery? Or is it a issue due to Lolipop (can't say if this will happen with KitKat since I changed the battery using the developer preview and stock Lolipop only)?
Right now, I'm trying to charge the battery while beeing in TWRP and see what happens then if I boot the phone.
Edit: Within minutes, battery was up to 100% in TWRP too. I rebooted TWRP and it's now back down to 58%... So it seems that Lolipop is not the reason.

battery issues with 5.1.1

hello everyone,
my nexus 4 notified me of the 5.5.1 update and took it but i noticed after the update my battery seems to be draining faster than before. if i have a full battery and leave it unplugged all night it will be completely dead the next day. is anyone else experiencing this? i am about to factory reset to see id it clears up the issue. if that doesn't work would i be able to go back to 5.1 without rooting?
thanks
phrozenstare said:
hello everyone,
my nexus 4 notified me of the 5.5.1 update and took it but i noticed after the update my battery seems to be draining faster than before. if i have a full battery and leave it unplugged all night it will be completely dead the next day. is anyone else experiencing this? i am about to factory reset to see id it clears up the issue. if that doesn't work would i be able to go back to 5.1 without rooting?
thanks
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I had the exact same issue; yes, you're going to have to do a factory reset, that's what fixed it for me. It's generally a good idea after an upgrade of any kind, even a small one like this, to do a factory reset to avoid any potential issues.
I have a problem with charging, my device charging 5 hours!!! from 1% to 100% on charger from HTC One M8(1,5A) I installed stock factory image 5.1.1 used flash-all.bat but problem stayed ... Please help me, i don't know what my phone doing -,-
Virtxer said:
I have a problem with charging, my device charging 5 hours!!! from 1% to 100% on charger from HTC One M8(1,5A) I installed stock factory image 5.1.1 used flash-all.bat but problem stayed ... Please help me, i don't know what my phone doing -,-
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It takes a couple hours to charge in general. If it wasn't doing that before, try a different charger, to see if that fixes the problem.
yea i have tried many cables and some just charge the phone slower than others. i find really short cables will charge the phone quicker too. anyway it seems a factory reset cleared up my battery issues so thank you for the help

SM-N910C heating problem after 5.1.1 update

I want to share my experience which is causing me trouble now.
I have a Note 4 SM-N910C which had an issue after updating to 5.1.1 lollipop. For about 2 days after updating, a strange thing happened to my phone. The whole phone gets hot. The screen, the sides, the back, you can feel that it is hot. At first, i thought of turning it off to cool down the device. To my surprise, the device is still hot even if it was turned off. So I removed the battery. Turned it back after 30 mins or so and restarted the device. But this time it won't turn on. I charged it and the battery was still at 25%. Then it turned on, the device slowly heats up. I then fully charged it and see if what is going wrong. But i cant think of anything i did for this to happen except disabling some apps in the application manager since there is still no root for 5.1.1 that time. Still the problem persisted for a day and my device dont last for more than 3 hours from full charge until it drains.
Then i decided to downgrade to 5.0.1 lollipop. But still the problem remained. I decided to show it to a technician, told about the problem and he said, there a lot of note 4's brought to them with the same problem. He said it is a common problem of note 4. What causes the issue he said was that the Power IC id damaged. And it is hard to repair. The solution is either to change the board of the device or change to a new one if under warranty. Since I tripped my knox, there will be no other way except to change the board which cost 75% of the price of the device or I will dispose the device.
If there are other solutions, i would be thankful for it will help me keep my device. I dont have the money to secure a new one.
What could have caused this problem? Thanks for any solution i could try..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62668936&postcount=8
Heating and Battery Drainnig Fast
I am having Battery Draining and heating up issue since i updated my device to 5.1.1
Even it does not charge that fast. It takes more than 3 hours to charge and then start draining super fast.
In next 4/5 hours battery comes down to 30 %.
This is a brand new mobile and it was working perfect before updating to 5.1.1
Please help how can i resolve this issue.

Battery percentage issue on z17s

Hi.
Yesterday I was using my Nubia z17s as always and before going to bed I decided to charge it, since battery was at around 20%.
When I connected the charger, the screen went off and it didn't wake up, no matter what I did, although I could feel the fingerprint scanner vibration when I used any of the registered fingers. So I decided to hard reboot the phone by keeping the power button pressed.
To my surprise, when the phone booted again, the battery percentage showed 3%. I left it charging overnight and now it's working but the battery percentage is stuck on 3%. I'm pretty sure it's more than that, since I've been using the phone for more than 6 hours and the battery percentage hasn't dropped a bit, and the phone is working (I've made an received a few calls).
A guy at work suggested letting the battery drain completely until the point the phone shuts itself down, and then charging the phone up to 100% while off, so the battery is calibrated and the percentage is fixed. But I've always heard that it's not a good idea to let a battery drain so much. Another problem is that I fear not being able to charge the phone again once the battery gets below 3%.
Any ideas? The phone is running latest Mokee 9 Premium.
Thanks in advance.
Remove "batterystats.bin" in the System folder
Tomcar said:
Remove "batterystats.bin" in the System folder
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I had already tried that. But deleting that file just resets the battery usage statistics. It has nothing to do with the battery percentage
It seems to me that you will have to make a full data backup and perform a factory reset.
ps and which firmware in use?
Hi, I forgot replying.
I finally got the phone up and running again, and the issue seemed to be firmware related.
I was running the phone on Android Pie based Mokee ROM. I finally let the phone discharge until it shut down and charged it while off. Battery got up to 100% and the phone seemed to work fine. But, a few weeks later, something similar happened again, so I reverted to the stock firmware (still stuck at Android 7.1.1) and the battery issues went away.
I recently tested the Android 10 based Mokee and found that it reports battery level very differently than the stock firmware. Before flashing TWRP and the Mokee ROM, the phone was showing 88% battery left. Just after booting Mokee, the phone had apperently dropped to 78% and I also felt quite a huge battery drain. And it had only taken me around 5 minutes to install the recovery and firmware. So I guess the Mokee firmware doesn't handle the battery very well on Nubia z17s. It's a pity, since all the rest works very well, and I quite liked the Android 10 experience. On the other side, I was unable to make Magisk work under Android 10, and Google Pay is a must for me now, so I once again went back to stock firmware.

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