[Q] Phone dying suddenly. - Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I am having issues with my battery. It drops fast from 100 to 75 in 30 mins and them holds well till 30 during which time I can get 2:30hours of screen on time. After that when it gets to 20% the phone suddenly turns off without warning. I tried recall calibrating battery by fully charging,then bump charging it to 100 and then let it fully fall and then turn it on and let it fall. And then fully charged it but still it dies around 20% mark.
What should I do?

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hi folks
morn i charged my xperia totally till 100 percent
then i switched it off for some time travelled for about 2 hours n turnd it on after reachin dh destination
to my suprise the battery percent was 18...i was shockd lookin at that
n den after 5 to 10 mins it reached back 2 100 whats with ma phone???
ahhhh it takes times to read the system, more or less 5 minutes, sometimes 30 sec.
and i have experience that i charge my phone at 12.00 am.at 50% then woke up 6.00am my battery goes to 78% hehehe crazy phone what i did reinserted the charger then after 5 minutes the battery 100%...
nagrockz said:
hi folks
morn i charged my xperia totally till 100 percent
then i switched it off for some time travelled for about 2 hours n turnd it on after reachin dh destination
to my suprise the battery percent was 18...i was shockd lookin at that
n den after 5 to 10 mins it reached back 2 100 whats with ma phone???
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Next time when you charge your phone, wait until the green LED turns off (indicating that the battery is 100% charged). Then take off the battery and insert it back, turn on the phone and charge again. The battery may be displayed as low as 75% and it will charge to 100%. Not sure why this is the case, but it works for me.
same thing happened to me right now.. phone was charged full 2 hrs ago.. just checked it was showing red light( battery zero!) wasnt able to do anything.. its charging now... beyond understanding!!

Battery Sensor

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Yesterday i install and run this program http://sourceforge.net/projects/netspoof/ for about 30-40 seconds, my phone was showing 60% battery. After 40 sec my phone was burning and i got the red led. Try to boot but nothing. Put the phone to charge and after a few minutes, he start to boot. Let him charge for 30 minutes @ 55%, reboot the phone and after that it was showing 30% charge. Left the phone 40 minutes to charge and it was showing full, reboot and then showing 40% watch him charging, the phone was jumping from 40% to 45% to 52% etc. Some help please.
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Note 3 BATTERY ISSUE !!!

Every time I charged my phone to 100% after I unplug the cable it goes to 85% in 30 minute ~ 1 hour, after that it acts normally !!! so could anyone explain to me that ?!!
Plus it takes too much time to charge from 95~100% maybe 45 minute to get that 5%, but it only takes 1 hour and 30 minute to get to 95%
so I just want to know if it does related to a H/W Issue or a S/W
If you are rooted try to calibrate or totaly discharge battery then charged to 100.
If you got same results replace battery

My battery is crazy.

Howdy!
I think my battery is fooling me around.
Quick context:
- It's a Galaxy Tab 4, 10.1", model SM-T530.
- Android version 5.0.2.
- I received it at Chirstmas in December 2014. I barely used it until June (by that I mean maybe used it 5 times for 20 minutes). The point I'm making: I did not overwhelm or overuse it.
The problem:
I've just opened my eyes and realised some oddities... And since yesterday, I'm "actively investigating" my battery, reading a lot and "gathering data".
First thing, battery strangely draining:
Today when I switched on my Tablet, it was a 65%. I used it from 12:51 to 12:59 and it was then at 52%. I was just playing a game called "Final Fantasy Record Keeper" which does not seem to be too heavy (regarding the graphics). I put the Tablet to sleep by pressing the power button as usual.
Then I had to leave, 30 minutes after, I'm at my desk, I take out the Tablet and it's now at 42%. The tablet was in sleep mode all the time (I have a password so it wasn't possible to switch on and stay on).
I play some more and decide to use a stop watch. The battery drained from 42% to 15% really quickly, with on average around 30 seconds between each percent.
I put the Tablet to sleep again.
A couple of minutes after, I check and it's at 11%.
It takes me 30 seconds to get the cable and plug the charger. Before I plug the Tablet to the charger, I can see the battery percentage plummeting 9%... 5%... 4%... 3%... In a couple of seconds...
I plug the Tablet in.
3% to 5% in a glimpse, 8%, 9%...
Second thing, battery strangely charging:
After 1h09min, it's at 66%
After 1h44min, it's at 72%
After 2h15min, it's at 78%
After 2h46min, it's at 81%
After 3h20min, it's at 84%
After 3h39min, it's at 87%
After 4h09min, it's at 90%
After 4h21min, it's at 92%
After 5h10min, it's at 94%
After 5h18min, it's at 100%
As I don't use my Tablet often, just for hobbies, I generally just put to charge overnight and I never really checked the charging speed.
This is the first "set of data" I can provide, I will definitely look cautiously into that in the following days, hopefully under some insight from you.
Note:
I was all day with Wifi on. Even when it was charging. Everything else is off. And when I use it, the brightness of the screen is always on the lowest possible level.
Thank you very much for your first diagnosis!
Have a good day/night,
I also have that tablet but the 530nu variant and i have similar issues and even weirder i just shut it off as it was at 5% plugged it in and it said 0% charger on the powered down battery screen. Turned it back on not 2 minutes later and magically it was at 93%. Just to summarize it went from 0-93% in ,literally , 2 minutes of charging and while writting this and a few othet things, about 10 minutes since powered on its only dropped one percent. How do i access the system battery files? I am rooted so i can get into any file i want.
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I have SM-335 and I have been trying to charge it for the last two days and all what I managed to achieve is 56% I have not been using it, mostly trying to get it fully charged. I noticed when checking the battery usage that WiFi was draining the battery, even when switched off to charge!!!! The other functions, like mobile network signal is constant and off when the tablet is off but WiFi bar is solid, even when the device was off. Charging is intermittent too although the cable was connected most of the time.... Next step I try is hard reset but this can't be the only solution
I had that problem on my t535. From 100 to 0 in 2-3 hours. Then when i turn it on after some time, it shows 1% but tablet works for about 5 hours on that 1%, or if i connect charger without turning on it shows 0% but when i turn tablet on it shows about 90%. I asked Samsung for new device, and i got it. Now is different story, my 6800mah battery charges in about 3:40-4 hours, and lasts about 9-10 hours(screen on time). I think thats hardware problem, because they wouldnt gave me new device if it was software problem.

Sudden battery issues - stops charging anywhere between 77 and 91, sudden drops

I've owned my Note 4 since October 2014 and it's been working solidly since. Last Thursday, out of nowhere, I noticed that from a 14% charge, it suddenly dropped to 4%. I immediately scrambled for a charger and charged it back up to 100%. On Friday, I charged my battery normally again. Charging finished at 11 AM but the drain was abnormally high. My phone was warm to the touch and battery was dead in 4 hours. I was using the phone normally throughout that time, 4g on, location services/bt off, screen off for the most part. I ran OS monitor to see whether any app was locking up the CPU, but, as expected, the main CPU users were Android System and Android OS.
On Saturday, I charged the phone to full again, disconnected around 4 pm. Being that I was home, both wifi and 4g were off. Battery discharged normally, and was only down to 30% on Monday morning.
On Monday, I noticed that battery dropped from 21% straight to 11% straight to 4% in a few seconds. The drain from 4 to 3 to 2% was decent (few minutes of screen on time, on viber), then the phone shut off. I tried to charge the battery with the device powered off, but noticed that the phone simply stopped charging at 80%. I thought that was an abnormality. I tried wiping the system and app caches, but the problem persisted and drain still felt pretty fast. Tuesday night, the phone stopped charging at 91%, staying at the same level for 40 minutes before I gave up and unplugged.
My friend had purchased a fake OEM Note 4 battery and allowed me to try the drain/charge process using his battery to troubleshoot. When I first plugged his battery into my phone, the drain was high at about 1 percent per minute. When I tried to charge the battery, the charge level would not go beyond 90%. I switched on safe mode, but the battery did not charge any further either. I felt by then that something was definitely wrong with my phone. When I restarted the phone to get out of safe mode, though, it suddenly started charging again and hit 100%. With regular use, the fake battery gave me 16 hours of power, which I thought was relatively decent. Alas, when I started charging it again, it stopped charging at 77%. Battery Monitor Widget showed 0 mA flowing into the phone at the time, though the battery indicator in the status bar showed the lightning bolt.
I took out the fake battery and put in my original. It is now charging up normally, but I expect charging to stop before I hit 100%.
If anyone could provide possible explanations for what could be going on and/or other troubleshooting tips to try, I would really appreciate it. A factory reset would be my last recourse.
Thank you very much!
EDIT: My battery went all the way up to 100% this time. But it's the same one that got stuck (at 80% then at 91%) twice in the past.
I'm using two different Samsung chargers and different cords, by the way, and blew out the port with air prior to attempting to charge the fake battery that still stopped at 77%.
I had the same issue, took it to Samsung and they replaced the battery, it has been okay since that
tigsandmitch said:
I had the same issue, took it to Samsung and they replaced the battery, it has been okay since that
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Really? I was ready to write off my battery and just buy a replacement, but what was weird was that even the newish fake battery wouldn't charge fully. That's what made me worried that it's my phone that's the problem.
It'd be great if this could be as simple as a battery problem.

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