I changed from Note 3 to s 6 edge plus recently
The battery drops 5% per hour overnight when not in use. If I go to bed with less than 40% battery at night I am sure to wake up with my phone switched off in the morning.
When in use with screen on, the battery drips one percent every two minutes. This is the worst battery life I have ever seen in a phone. I was a long loyal customer of samsung and this is my last samsung phone ever.
Extremely disappointed
Please post your battery stats ? so we can have a better understanding of your problem. I suggest you install 'Doze' which should stop unnecessary apps from connecting to the internet and causing your phone to awake from deep sleep.
Dear Akbar 11
Heres the battery stats....is it normal?
I had the same issue, and as far as I managed to find out, it is a bug in Samsung's kernel. Flashing Arter97 kernel solved the issue for, but do post battery stats from SmartManager. If it says 'Android' or 'Android OS', then you have the same problem many of us do.
I don't think it's a kernel problem. My android OS is very low 4%. Like zoolok said post your battery stats from settings, battery, battery usage
I have the same problem. Battery was great before I flash custom rom. After going back to stock I have big battery draining. I must stay on custom rom. With Audax rom and Skyhigh kernel i have great battery life.
You have either messed up something big or you have an app in the background that is eating up your battery like no tomorrow.
And the reason i say that is because i recently got this battery life on my Galaxy S6 edge+.
And this was taken 2 days ago.
Here i use the CRISSCROSS ROM, AudaxPro Kernel, Greeinify and Samsung's own 'Appoptimizing' feature (same as Doze in Android 6.0).
So my battery life is pretty awesome.
i have problem whit battery lose 25% when i sleep
This is a usual day with s6 edge plus
Any help?
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Any help?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
i have this problem battery ... if u fixed it tell me how?
Well I was expecting Google Play Services to be eating your battery (which is quite common) but it looks like your Andriod OS is eating the most battery. I would uninstall Facebook and use the web version it always helps with the ram and battery furthermore, turn off location if you are not using it and check accounts which are being synced. These are the only tips I can give you as I have never seen Android OS drain so much battery.
Since a few days Google Play Store is eating up my battery: I go to sleep with 100% batt and wake up with 50%, if I check batt stats on top I have play store at 45%, with 5h active a d 2h of CPU.
Follows Android system at 5%.
Going crazy why...
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This is a usual day with s6 edge plus
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You've charged your phone 4 times during that day. I can't see what's the interesting part here.
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My phone is 1h30m out of the charges and at 78% battery level, out of those 68% is "phone idle". What is exactly "phone idle" and why it eats so much battery where name suggests on it's own that it shall not be using any battery since it's "idle"
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My phone is 1h30m out of the charges and at 78% battery level, out of those 68% is "phone idle". What is exactly "phone idle" and why it eats so much battery where name suggests on it's own that it shall not be using any battery since it's "idle"
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I am having a similar issue. On 2.3.4 HKTW with Faux kernel, battery mod and Battery level fix. Phone Idle is draining the battery.
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I am having a similar issue. On 2.3.4 HKTW with Faux kernel, battery mod and Battery level fix. Phone Idle is draining the battery.
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Do you have a feeling this started happening after "battery fix"? I feel like it started happening since I install fix yesterday.
I had the same problem, both before and after the battery fix. I cant get my atrix to last 12 hours with light use before its crying to be charged. Just installed the battery fix and Ninja rom last night; ill give that a try and see how it goes.
Man guys, I'm just rooted, and running the latest stock rom, and I'm amazed at how awesome the battery life is. I can go for almost a day and a half. I do most of my rss feed reading on my phone, and I tend to go for hour long jogs with it strapped to my arm running gps.
Maybe my usage model has something to do with it. When I'm not running, I'm either at home or at work, where I connect to wifi. That might have something to do with my stellar battery performance.
i have the same problem it started yesterday well noticed it yesterday
i went with the new recovery and after a bad install of ninja
installed the new cherryblur I had a problem with the new recovery wipeing user data and had to reinstall after a wipe with fastboot. dont know what the problem is.
artisticcheese said:
My phone is 1h30m out of the charges and at 78% battery level, out of those 68% is "phone idle". What is exactly "phone idle" and why it eats so much battery where name suggests on it's own that it shall not be using any battery since it's "idle"
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i had exactly the same issue with Kenn´s rom and Faux kernel...
after a week testing with everything i can tell you that the guilty was the Kernel.
Flash again the rom that you have been using but do not install that kernel.
Cheers!
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i had exactly the same issue with Kenn´s rom and Faux kernel...
after a week testing with everything i can tell you that the guilty was the Kernel.
Flash again the rom that you have been using but do not install that kernel.
Cheers!
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sounds like a good place to start. ill give it a go!
edit: this mornig i set my set cpu profile to the lowest setting while screen is off ond just notices phone idle is down to 45%
ill post back if i have more data
The less you are physically using your phone, the higher the percentage of usage Phone Idle will have. Typically, for a normal user Phone Idle will ALWAYS be the highest usage.
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The less you are physically using your phone, the higher the percentage of usage Phone Idle will have. Typically, for a normal user Phone Idle will ALWAYS be the highest usage.
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this is true. if your not using anything else to drain your battery something will always show up on the list. say you lost 20% of battery in 4 hrs. you have had it sleeping the whole time. well that list looks at what applications have been running so it builds a list on what took out the 20% so if you didnt do anything phone idle would have taken say 78% of the 20% of battery you lost. it doesnt mean its draining your battery more then normal. it means it was the only thing to drain the battery at all. followed by display, android system etc....
International user here with 2.3.4 ORANGEFR. After flashing edgan's kernel my battery issues are pretty much gone. I undervolted as much as I could. At 70% battery right now with 8 hours of moderate use.
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The less you are physically using your phone, the higher the percentage of usage Phone Idle will have. Typically, for a normal user Phone Idle will ALWAYS be the highest usage.
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That's fine but the problem (see original post) that despite low usage I do have big battery drain and in this case "idle" is in fact appears to be eating 2/3 of it.
I'm in the orange already after little use today and i've only been unplugged for 6hours. I just flashed GB on friday.
Normally I would suggest installing the app Spare Parts to monitor which apps run the heaviest while the phone is supposed to be sleeping...however, on the Gingerbread ROMs, Spare Parts can't show you those stats anymore...very unfortunate.
but spare parts+ can
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That's fine but the problem (see original post) that despite low usage I do have big battery drain and in this case "idle" is in fact appears to be eating 2/3 of it.
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you never post what android version you are using, im assuming HKTW on ATT atrix? i had the same problem with that build, its full of problems. dont bother installing apps to try to figure out what is draining your battery, its the build itself it is known to have battery issues. theres def a problem if the phone is using 22% on just 1.5h of idle. there's no fix for it. install either ken's gingerbread rom or one of the other roms based on ATT 2.3.4. theres no battery issues with those
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you never post what android version you are using, im assuming HKTW on ATT atrix? i had the same problem with that build, its full of problems. dont bother installing apps to try to figure out what is draining your battery, its the build itself it is known to have battery issues. theres def a problem if the phone is using 22% on just 1.5h of idle. there's no fix for it. install either ken's gingerbread rom or one of the other roms based on ATT 2.3.4. theres no battery issues with those
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Well, no REAL battery issues. The meter still jumps around wildly unless you have the fix installed if you are using the 1% mod. So you can reboot and suddenly have 20-40% more battery than before.
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That's fine but the problem (see original post) that despite low usage I do have big battery drain and in this case "idle" is in fact appears to be eating 2/3 of it.
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Have you done the battery fix for the GB ROMs? Without it, the drain is reported as being more than it really is.
Have you set up a more conservative profile under the battery management (or wherever the hell it is)?? With light usage, change your settings there to be less performance based, since you apparently don't need it.
And as previously stated...SOMETHING will use your battery. That will either be idle, or Angry Birds. If you aren't using apps, the browser, etc...then idle consumes battery. Use your phone more...or adjust your profile settings to be much more conservative (including turning data off after a shorter time period).
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Well, no REAL battery issues. The meter still jumps around wildly unless you have the fix installed if you are using the 1% mod. So you can reboot and suddenly have 20-40% more battery than before.
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this is a very minor problem that doesnt effect battery life as in it doesnt shorten battery life. it jumps up after reboot but if you use it for a while it will jump back down on its own. there is also a fix that works so its not an issue anymore.
I'm using Kenneth ROM with default kernel. Idle is still top consumer ( more then screen for example). I did not do battery calibration but will do now but I don't think this will fix the issue.
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Hi all,
I've flashed KitKat yesterday, and charged it fully overnight. (Full clean flash with wugs toolkit)
Today I did nothing with it from 8 o-clock to 18 o-clock. Battery went down to 55% percent in that time (used to be like 86 on 4.3).
"Phone idle" is at the top of the processes.
Is this a one-off. Is this the battery calibrating itself?
Phone was on 3g/2g all day and has semaphore kernel installed. Which should be awesome in terms of battery.
Thanks
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any rom will use more battery the first 2 battery cycles. its when all the background syncing with google services happens. and battery life has more to do with your personal setup, your personal use, and the quality of signal you have than with anything else.
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any rom will use more battery the first 2 battery cycles. its when all the background syncing with google services happens. and battery life has more to do with your personal setup, your personal use, and the quality of signal you have than with anything else.
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Allright thanks.
Weird thing is that it never happened when i installed pa again. 50% down is a lot for a phone that's just sitting there.
But i'll see tomorrow, installed bbs just to monitor it
So, yestarday I installed latest Russian Lollipop firmware for the i9500 (I9500XXUHOD4_I9500SERHOD4_SER) and battery, when using the phone, gives a decent SOT, maybe 3~4 hours. But when the phone is in standby mode Android OS and Android System procces take care of draining it hell fast (all of this with Save Battery Mode ON, always). Can I do something about this? Did I do something wrong? Is there another battery friendly stock Lollipop build? (Maybe one of those before HOD4).
The phone's battery is ok, it has at least 3 months of usage. It is not bloated or something like that but if you have another tip t check if its life is over I'll be glad to read it.
I neither installed some uncommon consuming battery apps, just the regular things. Even I tried to optimize it by installing Device Control and Kernel Adiutor to change some values but I had no luck so far. I have GSam Battery Monitor to check what's darining battery and Better Battery stats (although I don't really know how to use it) because I can't get Wakelock Detector to work on Lollipop. I have my phone rooted and with TWRP installed.
Cheers.
PS: SOT and general battery stats differ in 1% of battery because I first took the battery stats screenshot then put it to charge and 5 mins later I thought it would be better to add SOT to give you a refference of the use the phone has had. Not big deal.
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So, yestarday I installed latest Russian Lollipop firmware for the i9500 (I9500XXUHOD4_I9500SERHOD4_SER) and battery, when using the phone, gives a decent SOT, maybe 3~4 hours. But when the phone is in standby mode Android OS and Android System procces take care of draining it hell fast (all of this with Save Battery Mode ON, always). Can I do something about this? Did I do something wrong? Is there another battery friendly stock Lollipop build? (Maybe one of those before HOD4).
The phone's battery is ok, it has at least 3 months of usage. It is not bloated or something like that but if you have another tip t check if its life is over I'll be glad to read it.
I neither installed some uncommon consuming battery apps, just the regular things. Even I tried to optimize it by installing Device Control and Kernel Adiutor to change some values but I had no luck so far. I have GSam Battery Monitor to check what's darining battery and Better Battery stats (although I don't really know how to use it) because I can't get Wakelock Detector to work on Lollipop. I have my phone rooted and with TWRP installed.
Cheers.
PS: SOT and general battery stats differ in 1% of battery because I first took the battery stats screenshot then put it to charge and 5 mins later I thought it would be better to add SOT to give you a refference of the use the phone has had. Not big deal.
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Did you try factory reset your device?
Joku1981 said:
Did you try factory reset your device?
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I did. Reflashed the build too. I use Greenify.
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I was thinking of getting this phone mainly because of the better battery, but I couldn't find much information on how much it lasts (SOT/usage) compared to the other Moto G variants.
So, post your battery stats, please!
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I was thinking of getting this phone mainly because of the better battery, but I couldn't find much information on how much it lasts (SOT/usage) compared to the other Moto G variants.
So, post your battery stats, please!
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Got the XT1072 4 days ago, after the first charge i'm on 20% now , light usage, calls, sms, and some browsing, too lazy to up a screen now i'm alredy in bed.
ROM is cm12.1 btw. The Stock rom 5.0.2 was lucky enough to see 1 boot lol.
Nice phone, the only thing i miss is the physical home button to wake up the screen, now i have to reach the power button.
Here you go, this is my battery life on Mokee OS (Release Build)
Really really good battery life.
Stats which do not appear on screenshots :
- 25mn call
- 30-45mn music
- wifi on for 12-15y
- data on (4g/lte) for an hour I guess.
Deep sleep is amazing too
My motorola XT1072 battery averages 1d 16h 46m (9h 0m 60s active usage) on a single charge. Averages 5hr 55mins screen on time in a single charge since March
Do you not use Greenify and Deep Sleep Battery Saver? i'm a light user but get 7-8 days out of mine, 10texts and facebook and twitter for 20mins a day so very light user.
Used Greenify last night at 11.30pm and woke this morning to see the battery at 98% at 9.20am when I checked it, you wont see that on the standard lollipop
Just got the phone today with android 5.0.2 installed, the battery life is terrible, i lost 40% of battery in 2hours!! All i did was install essential apps and surf the net on wifi . Need advice on how to make it last longer, currently planning to root the phone anyway also how long does the battery last when playing emulator games.
Thanks
Give it a couple of days. It's completely normal to use a lot of battery when you are installing/syncing for the first time.
Mine has a very poor battery life now, which replacement battery would you please suggest?
Hey guys i got a s4 for free a few weeks ago and the battery was having issues so i brought a new battery from Samsung for $50. I guess the phone is $50 now huh, still that's a good price. Anyway i have an improvement in standby time over the old battery that seemed to drain no matter what, but i only get around 2hrs to 3hrs screen on time full brightness with a mix of auto. The phone tends to get warm when its below 40% power. Also using the phone drains it at a fast rate, but standby only 1% per 8mins or so witch is good. Im backing up with twrp and titanium backup, ive tried recalibration, and im about to do a factory reset on this (stock touchwiz)
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Battery calibration apps are a placebo.
Anyway, let me tell you a little story:
2 weeks ago I watched a 2 hour movie on my phone. Started from 100% ans towards the end of the movie I was left with about 50% battery.
Screen brightness was around 60%, WiFi was enabled and the mobile reception was 4G.
All things considered I would assume I can get 4 hours SOT, since it took 2 hours to get from 100 to 50.
This is on a custom rom and battery oriented kernel settings.
Also take into account that I was watching a movie, so the CPU was idling most of the time. Doing tasks and switching from one app to another drives the CPU up.
Your screen-on time seems acceptable to me. I have to mention that my battery is one and a half years old, but I always took good care of it (I never let it discharge too much and never left it charge too much, as both of those, over time, can reduce its storage capacity).
Im using Albe95 rom with a custom kernal and the battery is draining slightly less, ive reduced my brightness to 60% and its drained from 100% to 77% in standby and extremely light use in 6hrs (about 4hrs standby drained 6% and 2 hrs of on off use every now and then drained about 17%. I guess im used to my old LG L70 D320n witch could hold up at full brightness forever. Will Cyanogenmod 13 bring much improvement for me?
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Im using Albe95 rom with a custom kernal and the battery is draining slightly less, ive reduced my brightness to 60% and its drained from 100% to 77% in standby and extremely light use in 6hrs (about 4hrs standby drained 6% and 2 hrs of on off use every now and then drained about 17%. I guess im used to my old LG L70 D320n witch could hold up at full brightness forever. Will Cyanogenmod 13 bring much improvement for me?
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I don't know. Maybe Optimized CM13 because it has a custom kernel and you can select battery or performance profiles.
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I don't know. Maybe Optimized CM13 because it has a custom kernel and you can select battery or performance profiles.
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I still dont get why i should have to do that with a BRAND NEW battery
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I still dont get why i should have to do that with a BRAND NEW battery
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You won't miraculously get 5-6 hours SOT even if the battery is new.
Maybe with lowest brightness, WiFi and mobile data off you will.
Underclocking and undevolting might help a little, but I don't see anyway of getting more than 5 hours.
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You won't miraculously get 5-6 hours SOT even if the battery is new.
Maybe with lowest brightness, WiFi and mobile data off you will.
Underclocking and undevolting might help a little, but I don't see anyway of getting more than 5 hours.
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Thats not the problem, im bearly reaching a bit over 1 and a half hours SOT
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Thats not the problem, im bearly reaching a bit over 1 and a half hours SOT
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There's a guide in the general section, _Bon_Bon's tweaks.., Something along those lines is the title.
It has a guide on how to increase battery life.
The guide is based on alucard kernel, though.
Alucard kernel is available for any 5.0 and 5.1 roms. But there is no public build for android 6.
Only JDCTeam roms have alucard kernel for android 6. Those roms are Optimized CM13 and AOSP 6.0 rom.
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There's a guide in the general section, _Bon_Bon's tweaks.., Something along those lines is the title.
It has a guide on how to increase battery life.
The guide is based on alucard kernel, though.
Alucard kernel is available for any 5.0 and 5.1 roms. But there is no public build for android 6.
Only JDCTeam roms have alucard kernel for android 6. Those roms are Optimized CM13 and AOSP 6.0 rom.
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Will take a look thanks
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GDReaper said:
There's a guide in the general section, _Bon_Bon's tweaks.., Something along those lines is the title.
It has a guide on how to increase battery life.
The guide is based on alucard kernel, though.
Alucard kernel is available for any 5.0 and 5.1 roms. But there is no public build for android 6.
Only JDCTeam roms have alucard kernel for android 6. Those roms are Optimized CM13 and AOSP 6.0 rom.
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Ok so slowly things have improved but today when it was at 9% (6:30pm charged this morning) it froze up and i pulled the battery. Then it jumped down to 2% at restart! This has happened before (cant remember if it was on stock rom or the note 5 rom im using on it now) from 40% freeze, pull battery, restart, 22%! Any idea why this happens. I talked to samsung about the battery performance and they just wanted me to send the phone too as "its not just the battery" just for more money instead of honering their 3 month ****ty warranty! Stick it samsung my next phone will be lg like the rest, even though i only just brought this damn phone
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Ok so slowly things have improved but today when it was at 9% (6:30pm charged this morning) it froze up and i pulled the battery. Then it jumped down to 2% at restart! This has happened before (cant remember if it was on stock rom or the note 5 rom im using on it now) from 40% freeze, pull battery, restart, 22%! Any idea why this happens. I talked to samsung about the battery performance and they just wanted me to send the phone too as "its not just the battery" just for more money instead of honering their 3 month ****ty warranty! Stick it samsung my next phone will be lg like the rest, even though i only just brought this damn phone
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The freezes might be caused by CPU undervolting, if you did any.
But the battery percentage dropping suddenly is a sign of a bad battery. It might drop 2 or 3% during the boot up, but not 20%.
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The freezes might be caused by CPU undervolting, if you did any.
But the battery percentage dropping suddenly is a sign of a bad battery. It might drop 2 or 3% during the boot up, but not 20%.
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Samsung say the phone is the problem. Today i got to 40% and it jumped to 30% within 20 mins. Then i pulled the battery and started the phone up, repeating this multiple times to see the battery percentage. It jumped between 24% 15% and 19% up and down each time i pulled battery and restarted (no crashing just to see what happens). Is this enough to tell Samsung ITS NOT MY PHONE.
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Samsung say the phone is the problem. Today i got to 40% and it jumped to 30% within 20 mins. Then i pulled the battery and started the phone up, repeating this multiple times to see the battery percentage. It jumped between 24% 15% and 19% up and down each time i pulled battery and restarted (no crashing just to see what happens). Is this enough to tell Samsung ITS NOT MY PHONE.
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Apparently they refuse to accept the possibility that they might have sold you a faulty battery, so they blame the phone.
I don't see how the phone might drain the battery from a hardware perspective.
It's possible from a software perspective, but since you changed roms it is unlikely to be software related.
Did you install any apps to check if the phone enters deep sleep? Or if there is anything keeping the CPU at max frequency?
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Apparently they refuse to accept the possibility that they might have sold you a faulty battery, so they blame the phone.
I don't see how the phone might drain the battery from a hardware perspective.
It's possible from a software perspective, but since you changed roms it is unlikely to be software related.
Did you install any apps to check if the phone enters deep sleep? Or if there is anything keeping the CPU at max frequency?
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Wake lock doesnt find anything strange. Even twrp battery indicator in my custom recovery experiences the same effects
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Ok ive done it a few more times and it seems to possibly be a calibration issue. But ive calibrated it multiple times before
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Ok ive done it a few more times and it seems to possibly be a calibration issue. But ive calibrated it multiple times before
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How did you calibrate it?
Battery calibration apps are a placebo. What they do is they delete the batterystats.bin file which, as stated by a Google engineer, has no relation to battery life or the battery display.
Also, that file gets deleted automatically at every reboot by android itself.
What you could do is:
First let your battery fully discharge, until the phone turns off. Then try to turn it back on. If it turns on, proceed to use it until it turns off again. Do this until the phone won't turn on again.
Now the battery is completely empty and you can plug it in to charge. Let it charge to 100% without interruptions.
Take into account that it can take up to 3 hours to fully charge.
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How did you calibrate it?
Battery calibration apps are a placebo. What they do is they delete the batterystats.bin file which, as stated by a Google engineer, has no relation to battery life or the battery display.
Also, that file gets deleted automatically at every reboot by android itself.
What you could do is:
First let your battery fully discharge, until the phone turns off. Then try to turn it back on. If it turns on, proceed to use it until it turns off again. Do this until the phone won't turn on again.
Now the battery is completely empty and you can plug it in to charge. Let it charge to 100% without interruptions.
Take into account that it can take up to 3 hours to fully charge.
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Haha done this before to no avail. Will do again but i noticed battery life is generally better if i leave it charging for 10hours after its charged fully. Instead of taking it off when it gets to 100% but i think a long worded and very angry email is about to be sent to the Samsung repair centre
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on my travels around google I've read many times that with lithium batteries you NEVER want to completely discharge or overcharge them. give it 10 minutes extra once fully charged, not more. you're damaging the poles or terminals or something I can't remember fully when at either extreme. all you achieve is a shorter lifespan for your battery.
discharge it until it turns off but never until it can't turn on again. it has a chip in the battery that needs to stay powered too.