Apparently I am in the minority, but my VZW LG G2 (Stock) was affected the the slow charging battery drain issue after upgrading to Lollipop.
It's crazy just how slowly the phone would charge and drain. After the update my phone was constantly attached to a charger. It couldn't make it to mid-day even with little use. It would take hours to gain just 20-30% charge.
After months of complaining I finally "downgraded" to KitKat. The difference is amazing. I can easily make it through a full day with moderate use and I can almost fully charge the phone after about an hour. It's great.
Has anyone had this problem and figured out a cause or solution? I've always been stock, but has a custom lollipop ROM worked better? At the moment I think I'm going to wait until there's another update (hopefully) before upgrading.
I am having same problem as yours, the battery problems are on the rise with Lollipop update. Sometimes I wish I shouldnt have upgraded. But anyhow, I solved my problem by using a good charger, more details you can read on this page: http://www.techkhoji.com/slow-battery-charge-android-iphone-samsung/
Argh! After weeks of deferring the daily lollipop update request I was half asleep on morning and accidentally started the update. I couldn't stop it once it started.
My phone was just about dead when the update finished and I let it fully charge. To my surprise it charged surprisingly fast. After it was fully charged (and unplugged) the phone stayed at 100% for about 20 minutes of continuous use before it dropped to 99%. I was again surprised that the phone held a charge (no charging) all day with moderate use. In the evening it stayed at 0% for a while before it finally died. I suspect the phone was calibrating the battery during this initial use.
I thought perhaps the problem was solved, but a day later, the phone is back to charging painfully slow.
I actually measured the charging current, it's not just my imagination! I have a USB Meter and when the phone was on kikkat and for the first day on lollipop it would consistently charge between 1.5A and 1.8A. Now, it will only charge at 0.46A. I'm using the same chargers and charging cables.
What could have changed? Is there a way to reset whatever battery calibration may have occurred?
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Now to start of, I have a T-mobile MDA with the 2.17 rom upgrade. My problem is my battery would jump from say 50 % to like 90%. Like today the battery was completely dead and i charged it up to 57% and hat to stopp because i had to run to the gym. Im at the gym and look at my power it mysteriously jumped up to 91%. now i know it doesnt have 91% because it was only charging for about a half hour. anyone know why it does this. Also i notice that when it does this the battery drains really fast until it gets down to the number it would normally be at if it didnt jump. Thank you in advance
about the battery...
If you recharge your battery every day when it has anything between 45% and 70% leaving it charging overnight, what effect will it have?
The battery producers claim that batteries don't have the "memory effect." Is it entirely true?
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Now to start of, I have a T-mobile MDA with the 2.17 rom upgrade. My problem is my battery would jump from say 50 % to like 90%. Like today the battery was completely dead and i charged it up to 57% and hat to stopp because i had to run to the gym. Im at the gym and look at my power it mysteriously jumped up to 91%. now i know it doesnt have 91% because it was only charging for about a half hour. anyone know why it does this. Also i notice that when it does this the battery drains really fast until it gets down to the number it would normally be at if it didnt jump. Thank you in advance
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I have had this issue as well - my suggestion leave it charging and try not to use it while its charging - or if you do remove it from the charger. Last night my charge went from 85 to 100% and light went green. But today during light usage I went from 100 right back to like 86% immediately not gradually.
Some sort of bug I think
yah i guess its just a bug. I wonder how many others are experiencing this
Wierd charge readings
I'm getting the same thing. I am also running the 2.17 ROM but I only noticed it yesterday. I've had the 2.17 ROM for about 3 or 4 weeks but never noticed it happening before. For me it happens if I'm charging and then for whatever reason disconnect the unit from the charger. It jumps to 100% and i guess there is some internal circuitry which prevents any further charge being applied. Nothing scientific but it doesn't appear to happen if I'm charging off the laptop using a USB cable. Has only happened with mains charger. Might do some tests later on to try and find something more concrete but on the other hand I'm not sure that it bothers me much.
I switched back to stock the other day and got a notification for an update. After the update, the battery doesn't drain the same as before. Previously, the battery would drop like 10% in the first five minutes or so. Now it drains normally the entire way down. Did HTC finally get around to fixing the charging bug?
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Yes and no. The phone now charges as fast as it did under 2.1; but you STILL need to charge with the power off (which is really all a 'bump charge' is), to get that last bit of charge into the battery.
Hi guys,
Does anyone have any idea to this WEIRD issue I've had with my Desire Z?
Basically, my phone was working normally last night. I then put my phone on to charge as normal before I went to bed, and I left it on the bed. About 5-6 hours later (I had to get up early today...) I turned over and touched the back of the phone and woke up shocked, as the back of the phone BURNED me! I got very confused and looked at the phone. It was VERY hot to hold, and it was on 42% battery. I then took the battery out, and it was almost hot enough to burn me. I left the battery out of the phone until I got up properly and tried turning it back on, and it got very hot, very fast.
I figured it could be a problem with the 1800 mAh Mugen battery I was using, so I decided to put my old stock HTC battery in. I got the same problem.
It seems to have got slightly better now, but I can only really use the phone in 5-10 minute bursts now. When the phone has booted up the battery will report around 36 degrees. After 5-10 minutes it sails up to about 50 degrees before I turn it off. The battery also drops off fast between reboots, losing around 10% each time I reboot (however, it doesn't seem to drop that fast when I'm actually using the phone...).
I am rooted and using Cyanogen Mod 7, and I recently flashed to the 151 nightly. I tried flashing to some of the earlier nightlies I still had on the phone, but the issue is exactly the same.
I did have the phone in the bootloader for a while (volume down+trackball), and it didn't seem to overheat. However, when I tried charging the phone with the device off the battery seemed to get VERY hot (way more hot than normal).
Luckily I can still back up anything I need to back up, and I am going to start doing wipes soon (assuming the phone doesn't overheat while wiping, which worries me!), but I am very confused!
I'm thinking that some sort of short circuit has happened, or something?
Does anyone have any ideas? If it's a definite hardware problem I can get a replacement fairly easily, but I do love my Z, so it's the last thing I want to do...
Very lucky my dad has a Samsung Galaxy Tab I can borrow as a phone for now. It will be fun for a day or two having a 7" tablet as a phone, but it will get old fast!
Thanks a lot, all!
Edit: I think it's had it. I tried using another charger and another USB cable and leaving it charge for a bit. When I came back after about 15 mins, again the phone was very hot, and the indicator light was flashing green and orange. When I tried to boot the phone it was dead. When I plugged it back in the indicator light would flash orange on and off for a while, then start blinking weirdly. Lucky my mugen battery still has about 15% charge... xD
http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/2710?start=75&tstart=0
It's *possibly* this problem.
My phone does the same thing, gets SUPER hot when charging, and has extremely short battery life.
Mine's not charging at all now, so I'm not even sure what to do at all :/
If I use the phone a lil and my Mugen battery dies, I won't be able to turn it on at all, so I'm not sure whether to start wiping and stuff now...
General consensus is to not leave the phone to charge overnight?
not with today's technology. all batteries (atleast good ones) have an internal circuit that keeps the battery from over charging. it also provides a method to maintain the charge by letting the phone drain some battery over the night by 5-10% then performing a trickle charge to slowly (very slowly) recharge the battery.
I've been leaving my stuff charging overnight for over a decade. It's not as bad as you think it is.
Hey guys...I have updates to kit kat 3 times since it has came out...I have issues right now with my phone that I am not sure if it is due to kitkat or what..
I have HORRIBLE battery life now...Literally lasting like half a day. On MJE it was not like this. Also, for some reason, it is taking FOREVER to charge, and it will not charge if hooked up to a PC very much at all...used to it would charge the phone, now it just keeps it at the same percentage, or drains it further.
I have tried eclipse rom and baja rom and they seem to both have the issue.
Maybe your battery is toasted. Left your phone in a hot car lately? Baking lithium batteries tends to make them slow to charge and fast to die. You could get another battery and try it (don't get a no name aftermarket one unless it's like a Zero Lemon or something respectable).
If it's not the battery then your charging circuit could be going bad. Worse case scenario you get a warranty replacement and have an extra battery.
Another thing to consider is that a laptop or computer will typically only charge the phone at 400-600mA. That will take 6-8 hours to complete. If you recently switched computers it could be outputting less power. Find a wall charger rated at 2000mA and try that. Charge should be complete from 0% to 100% in 2-3 hours max. If it takes much longer than that, you have a dying battery or bad charging circuit.
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Maybe your battery is toasted. Left your phone in a hot car lately? Baking lithium batteries tends to make them slow to charge and fast to die. You could get another battery and try it (don't get a no name aftermarket one unless it's like a Zero Lemon or something respectable).
If it's not the battery then your charging circuit could be going bad. Worse case scenario you get a warranty replacement and have an extra battery.
Another thing to consider is that a laptop or computer will typically only charge the phone at 400-600mA. That will take 6-8 hours to complete. If you recently switched computers it could be outputting less power. Find a wall charger rated at 2000mA and try that. Charge should be complete from 0% to 100% in 2-3 hours max. If it takes much longer than that, you have a dying battery or bad charging circuit.
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Thanks for the response!
I actually bought a new battery the other day as I was clueless as to what was causing this issue. It is doing the same thing, which tells me it is either something to do with my phone or the ROM's themselves. I seriously cannot get a day out of my phone with normal use...Used to I would have around 40% left and I was using my phone a heck of a lot more than what I am using it now. My phone will sit plugged into my PC or plugged into the wall at work all day...When I get off at 5...By the time I go to bed at 12-1am I am getting alerts about battery.
It charges up to 100 percent though...This I don't get...I have only tried 2 roms on the NC2 and I have tried this a while back when it first came out with a rom but dont remember which one it was...The phone will randomly start chugging super slow and I will have to reboot it in order to get it do do anything...It will get to the point it takes 10+ seconds to load the power menu when I hold the power button. This has ONLY been an issue with NC2. I have ODIN'd back and upgraded all the way through and still had the same issues multiple times.
I don't understand why this did not do this on MJE but does on NC2. I was running Baja prior to NC2 on MJE without any issues. I am pretty tech savy, I am a network administrator...I have had many Verizon phones, and flashed/rooted several. I am not an expert, but I am fairly confident I am doing everything right...I don't know what I would be missing.
I could do a warranty claim through Verizon...Problem is, they give you remanufactured phones...I want to be dang sure it is an issue with my phone, as this one I got new from Verizon, and not the NC2 build iteself. Would it still be the charging circuit if it charges to 100% still? I have a wireless charger that I use when I am at home, and I just got it not long ago...does that bypass the charging circuit, or does it still use it? This was after I was having issues.
ok, first: I'm on stock rom, december update. completely stock, not even flash twrp yet. been on this for... a week maybe. and there is a really weird thing happening: I charge my phone normally, original charger and cable and everything, but when I unplug, it goes down like... one percent per minute. like, from 100% to 80% in 20 minutes. if I'm using the phone it's even faster. it stops at 58%, and the drain is normal from this point on.
any thoughts?
no thoughts? I just cant understand. my phone is fully stock, theres no unusual app and such. keeps draining as water.
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no thoughts? I just cant understand. my phone is fully stock, theres no unusual app and such. keeps draining as water.
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You could try to press and hold the power button until your device reboots. While it reboots, plug in your charger and let it charge at least 1h more after it has reached 100%.
I don't know if this procedure really re-callibrates your battery, got this from the "official" Moto forums. At least you can't harm your device with it.
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You could try to press and hold the power button until your device reboots. While it reboots, plug in your charger and let it charge at least 1h more after it has reached 100%.
I don't know if this procedure really re-callibrates your battery, got this from the "official" Moto forums. At least you can't harm your device with it.
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tried this method and a curioud thing is that the phone didn't go over 93%. it stopped charging at this point
just a lil update: I just charged my phone with a non turbopower charger (I have two of those from moto) and... my phone came back to normal.
seems to be that it was charging properly with my turbopower charger, and... after trting a regular chsrger, its charging with my turbo again.
weird, isnt it?
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just a lil update: I just charged my phone with a non turbopower charger (I have two of those from moto) and... my phone came back to normal.
seems to be that it was charging properly with my turbopower charger, and... after trting a regular chsrger, its charging with my turbo again.
weird, isnt it?
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I was going to suggest the same thing as I have been experiencing that the battery lasts much longer when charged via a regular charger rather than with turbo. Try using a regular charger for overnight charging & see if you notice an increase in battery life.
I'm a heavy user with 125+ Apps installed now down to (60-80) & use it daily for 6-8 hours straight but I noticed after about a year with my Moto G4 Plus XT1644 RETAIL US my battery life was dying literally a full (turbo-charge) only lasted 30 mins & then it was dead. I then decided to bootloader unlock my device & that improved my battery tremendously but I found that custom roms have issues with either displaying the bars correctly or are just weaker due to some proprietary software. So for two weeks I've been fixing one thing & having another issue with something else.
I'm officially back on stock nougat with December security update & soon to be twrp+magisk. It seems to be the most stable & doesn't have the software issue with the bars which was a dealbreaker for me.
Report back if you find differences in battery using a standard charger vs the official turbo one!
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I was going to suggest the same thing as I have been experiencing that the battery lasts much longer when charged via a regular charger rather than with turbo. Try using a regular charger for overnight charging & see if you notice an increase in battery life.
I'm a heavy user with 125+ Apps installed now down to (60-80) & use it daily for 6-8 hours straight but I noticed after about a year with my Moto G4 Plus XT1644 RETAIL US my battery life was dying literally a full (turbo-charge) only lasted 30 mins & then it was dead. I then decided to bootloader unlock my device & that improved my battery tremendously but I found that custom roms have issues with either displaying the bars correctly or are just weaker due to some proprietary software. So for two weeks I've been fixing one thing & having another issue with something else.
I'm officially back on stock nougat with December security update & soon to be twrp+magisk. It seems to be the most stable & doesn't have the software issue with the bars which was a dealbreaker for me.
Report back if you find differences in battery using a standard charger vs the official turbo one!
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man, I just needed to charge once with a regular charger and everything came back to normal. I'll try again and see if theres difference. thank you for replying!