Good evening people at xda,
From the past few days i am facing an issue in which my battery drains instantly like if i unplug my phone at 25% within 1 minute its at 17% and within 5 minutes it is zero and phone shutsdown. Then i remove my battery and put it back and the battery is again 18% and then again the same thing happens.
*I had made sure that no app is causing this immense drain
*my phone is not rooted
*Running lollipop
*N910G
Any help would be strongly appreciated!
New battery. Mine was doing the same thing. Got a whole new phone when I replaced the battery.
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Did they replaced in warrantly period for free or not?
pilotmills said:
new battery. Mine was doing the same thing. Got a whole new phone when i replaced the battery.
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Didn't bother with the hassle. It was at the end of the warranty period and the batteries are so cheap these days. Got a two pack of Anker for about $40 I believe. Great company for chargers/battery packs/batteries.
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Same here over here. I have an N910C and I get sudden battery drains. The battery starts jumping down from X% to Y% in seconds until phone shuts down. So, I connect my charger and suddely thr battery is 15% again. Sometimes I see that battery is 20% and I connect my charger but I doesn't start charging my phone, it is as if I started a battery countdown and instead of charging my battery starts discharging faster than the speed of sound. Other days I have 40% and suddenly 0%; phone shuts down. This is insane. Let me know if battery replacement solves the problem.
Also getting poor battery life and fast drain in seconds. Had 13% of battery yesterday, started Skype call and phone shuted down. Last night I had 27% and turned on the ultra power saving mode. Had 25% in the morning, turned the saving mode off and battery went straight to 7% and phone turned off in half minute. Should get new battery tomorrow, will update then.
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Same as what I experienced last week. And I noticed the left side of my screen was lifting.... then I checked the battery and saw it bloated... I threw it away and used my spare....
well i got it done by the company under warranty. got a part named "msb" replaced!
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Before I left the house to go to work, my 10.1 Tab (Google I/O Limited Edition, rooted with 3.1) was at around 80%. I get home 9 hours later and the battery is completely drained. I plugged it in to the charger and turned it back on to see the battery at 1%. That just doesn't seem right to me. I can usually go about 2 days without putting it on the charger.
I've attached an image of the Battery Use graph, you can see it just drops like a cliff for no apparent reason. Has this happened to anybody else? Also, I just noticed that the time it was off (approximately 9 hours) is missing from the graph, so it only shows just under 5 hours.
I had the same issue last night. It had ~40% battery left when I went to sleep last night and this morning it wouldn't turn on, so I plugged in the charger and found the battery drained completely.
Interesting that it happened for you the same night. For me, it seemed to have happened around 5-6pm Pacific time on June 23. I don't know the exact time because I didn't have it with me at the time.
Happened the same to me a couple of weeks ago.
Battery was at 40% and overnight went to 0% and the tablet turned off.
Very weird
Came home to find mine with the screen on but completely black so you could BARELY tell it was on. Had to reboot as it wouldn't respond. When it did I only had 20% charge. I had unplugged it about 5 hrs earlier and left it with about 95% charge. Only happened once though so I haven't worried too much, maybe a similar issue though
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If I had to hazard a guess.. it would probably have been a runaway process in the background somewhere that totally drained the battery. If it was the battery itself losing a charge like that, I would be worried.... When batteries discharge like that for no reason, they can actually explode... (it is rare, but possible..not trying to cause a panic).
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If I had to hazard a guess.. it would probably have been a runaway process in the background somewhere that totally drained the battery. If it was the battery itself losing a charge like that, I would be worried.... When batteries discharge like that for no reason, they can actually explode... (it is rare, but possible..not trying to cause a panic).
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Wouldn't a runaway process drain the battery slowly over time? This seems to have happened instantly.
I really hope i dont find mine doing this... If I watched a laptop do it I would say the battery was shot. Now that its been charged does it hold a charge just as good as it was prior?
Im jealous you got the google I/O tab, was trying to get one on ebay but to hell with spending all that money for an army of androids you wil never see in a case. I heard they were giving them away for free @ the conference...
Happens tome as well
COUPLE of days ago sentries sleep and woke up to a dead tab
Before I went to bed I had at least 50 perent charge
well , twice in 5days usage .... there is a problem ..... weird
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mine no response in wall charging ..so worried that i am pondering your words ...'when it did '
were u trying to. say the tab was not being able to boot in quite some time ?
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Had to reboot as it wouldn't respond. When it did I only had 20% charge.
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I have had my tab 3 days unrooted. I left it last night at 85% and came home several hours later with the battery totally drained.
Will wait and see. Mine boot, battery 44%, not sure a wall charge in 30 some minutes can charge this much. Battery usage found no clues, no sign of sudden drop......
Yep just happened to me Also. This is a real problem.
first to make sure these power saving settigs are alright ,especially gps which will be turned on by so many location iasking apps.
i originally thought it happened twice on me . now i got to. say the first time my gps is on ,second time , the 10.1 looks no response /dead , but press power burton longer, it will be back in desktop without boot,kind of like hibernation on pc ......maybe after a quite long time no activity, 10.1 manage to hibernate itself .....just guessing
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i just had this happen to my 7" gt. never happened before.
Maps, for some reason, has been quite active even though I haven't used it in a while. I am not logged in to Latitude or anything so I don't know what gives. Also, CNN and USA Today apps seem to consistently get active on 1-5 hour intervals even though I disabled Notifications, etc. Anyone knows the reasoning?!
Last night I was browsing the web at about 30% battery, when my tab just clicked off out of nowhere. I wasn't able to turn it back on until I'd plugged it in. Once I got it back on it showed 1% battery.
Very weird...
battery issue
So last night im surfing the web battery is about 65% suddenly the remove charger battery full message pops up and the indicator says i have %100 full? I hadnt charged it in 4 hours.
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When batteries discharge like that for no reason, they can actually explode... (it is rare, but possible..not trying to cause a panic).
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Maybe if there's dead short and the pack isn't fused. Otherwise I call BS.
Hi, I've had my Play for about a week now and absolutely love it. The only thing I don't get about it is it's weird battery usage.. it seems to charge slower than it uses for one thing, and the usage seems kind of random.
Last night I went to bed with about 70% battery usage. This morning I woke up and my phone was off. I tried turning it on while charging but it didnt work (not even a charging indicator), I took out the battery and put it back in which got it working. Once it booted I checked the battery usage and it showed it basically went from 70% to 0% at once..
Also when checking what processes used the battery it seems off.. Camera 15% while I hardly used it, Keypad 5% seems weird as well.
Anyone know what's going on? Is this a common thing with the Play or is my device possibly malfunctioning?
Thanks
Your usage seems nothing like mine. Mine says standby, display and wifi take the most and doesn't even show keypad. And my battery draining is always consistent, it doesn't fluctuate like yours did.
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@Naatan I've sent my device to service for the second time now. First time it was something different than this, but since i got it back last monday it has acted like you posted, not exactly the same as you describe but close. My phone also turns of during the night at some point, first i thought it was drained. Had to pull the battery first and then leave it in the charger untill the charging symbol showed before i could boot again and when booted up the lockscreen showed 35% one morning and 62% another morning. So my phone is not draining but acting weird. Even when i turn it off i have to pull the battery to turn it on again. My phone is updated to the newest firmware 4.0.A.2.368 - 2.3.3.
As i said it's at a service place right now (they broke my volume button last time they fixed it, so i had to go back) and when i get it back from repair i will downgrade to 2.3.2 and run it for a week and see if the same thing happens and then i will update to newest for a week and see what happens. I think it's a bug in the new update, randomly hitting devices as they are not all alike as in the hardware behaves a little different from device to device, hence when oc'ing you have to do it a little at a time cuz one clock works perfectly on one device but messes with another.
Will report my findings.
Regards Dousan...
My cell standby is 56% battery usage and its on 11% battery and only off charge 12 hours ago. Horrible atm
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I haven't charged mine in 3 days, and have 35% left, with around 3 hours use on wifi for browsing and Facebook
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My battery has certainly suffered with the update. The battery life used to be pretty awesome, now id compare it to an iPhone struggling to last through the day. And thats with pretty minimal use.
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What's the mystery with this 4.0.a.2.368 update.. I got kinda same problem too http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17545087&postcount=13
I've had my nexus 4 for about 6 months and started having battery problems about 2 months back. My phone would just get worse and worse as time went on. It would randomly die when the battery was at 40% and would only get 2 hours of sot. Later it got worse and died at 70% getting only about 1 hour of sot. Now it got to the point where its unusable without a charger, if I unplug it the phone will last for 30 minutes max and then shut down. When I try to reboot it after it dies like this it boots up and instantly dies after about 5 seconds. Sometimes the phone reboots while it is plugged into the charger, while unplugged the phone instantly dies if I take a photo especially with flash. I tried resetting the battery by unplugging it and plugging it back. I noticed that the battery has expanded in size, even making my back cover not flat anymore. My question is if I replace the battery will this solve my problems? Here is a few screenshots of my battery stats:
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No one?
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Replace the battery ASAP or RMA the device for a new one. Those are all telltale signs of a bad battery, especially the swelling. Strange that it happened so early though.
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Hello mates,
About the Battery.
2 days ago I flashed the 4.3 factory image, I slept yesterday night and the phone was on 43% of battery at 1:00 am. When I woke up 9:15 am today's morning, I found that the battery in JUST 4% !!!!
could you guess the problem here ?
I never used Hangouts, nor Google now.
By the way , I'm using STOCK ROM with FRANCO KERNEL.
If I'm not mistaken, before the phone powered off, the screen on time was 47% ( 2 hours ), Phone Idle 6%, and Cell standby was in 9%.
XNemia said:
Hello mates,
About the Battery.
2 days ago I flashed the 4.3 factory image, I slept yesterday night and the phone was on 43% of battery at 1:00 am. When I woke up 9:15 am today's morning, I found that the battery in JUST 4% !!!!
could you guess the problem here ?
I never used Hangouts, nor Google now.
By the way , I'm using STOCK ROM with FRANCO KERNEL.
If I'm not mistaken, before the phone powered off, the screen on time was 47% ( 2 hours ), Phone Idle 6%, and Cell standby was in 9%.
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Strange but, your problem is probably only due to the software, maybe you didn't wipe cache or dalvik or just had a bad install, although if its persistent like mine replace the battery
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Hello,
This night I left my phone plugged in to charge it.
When I woke up 6h30 later, it was boiling hot and not just hot like the times I play games on it. It was hot all over, front and back!
I unplugged it and the phone switched off by itself.
I waited 15 minutes for it to cool and then switched it back on.
It's working fine but I'm afraid it's lifespan has been dramatically reduced.
I've attache the battery settings screen after the incident.
Apparently, the phone charge blocked something like half an hour after being plugged in and the overheat lasted 6 hours...
And the security system activated only after unplugging.
My questions :
Do you think the phone could be badly damaged?
Is there a way to check the battery temp history?
If the phone still works fine, should I still give google a call?
Thanks
I've been experiencing hear issues lately as well. I looked into weekdays running in the background and what is keeping my phone awake. Tweaked a few songs here and there. So far it hasn't been getting quite as hot, but it's just my first day results.
A while ago I was using a third party charger overnight from 10% or so. After roughly 6 hours it was only at 49%and screaming hot. Changed up chargers since and haven't had that issue.
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Use the charger provided along with the device or one with a similar ampere rating for best results.
and for your above battery issue try to switch off the device and charge, see if that helps. If it's just a calibration issue then it'll be fixed. Otherwise you'll have to get the battery replaced.
dont let phone on chrging whole nght.. it effets btry life.
I had an issue with my battery and heat. The phone was getting warmer every day (or week).
I noticed that their was a little bump on the back cover. After having removed it, i realized that the battery had nearly doubled its size.
I purchased a new battery (original), and i don't have any heat issue anymore.
The old battery was a year and a half old.
Just purchased myself a second hand S4 and it is a very good device, however whenever I charge to 100% once I take off the charger it goes to 99% within a few seconds and I do not have the data on or using any application. Is it normal or is it time to purchase a new battery?
I heard that turning off features like airview and airgesture can save some juice and also prevent the phone from heating.
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How is the battery life in general?
Arshid Vinod said:
I heard that turning off features like airview and airgesture can save some juice and also prevent the phone from heating.
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thanks will try it out
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thanks will try it out
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You're welcome.
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How is the battery life in general?
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When I turn on the data I lose 1% for every one or two minutes. At night when I sleep the phone loses only 5 to 6 % within eight hours. Seems acceptable to me
As long as you're happy with it, it should be ok. If not, change the battery. But it's not always the battery. Sometimes it's the ROM or kernel or other things.
Just got myself an S4 again, the first few days, it was getting very hot and seemed laggy, the battery was draining from 100% to 50% in about 1.5 hours of hardly any use, but it was charging extremely quickly or so its seemed, this one is running official 5.0.1.
So I took the battery out and it was excessively hot and i noticed it had a slight bulge in the centre, did the spin test on a flat surface and it span like a spinning top.
So bought myself another Samsung battery, now over the last few days the phone has hardly heated up and seems to be running so much smoother, battery is very stable in standby mode, still drains quite fast, but no where near as fast as on the old battery, may take a few more days to settle in i guess.
Is it true that one should not only change get the battery when less than 40% or else it will have a bad effect on the battery. I usually keep it on the charger most of the time.
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Not sure about current cell phone batteries but my laptop battery died after running pretty much 24/7 on AC power. 1 year later it was so dead it didn't have juice to boot into desktop when not on AC - died just after passing bios tests.
I would say memory effect after not full charge is less severe than killing it completely by keeping it on wall socket most of the time
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You'd think that laptops would have some sort of charge limiters, by now, that prevents the battery from overcharging.
For stock ROM after charging the phone to 100% .. please don't unplug ..tickle charge still happens .. turn off the screen and wait till LED notification light turns green from red.. only then unplug the charger ..