Problem with battery i9500 India - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Running stock
Android 5.0.1
Region code: INU
Build number: i9500XXUHOK2
Baseband: i9500DDUHOA1
Please check screenshot. Before bed it was at 9% and in the morning it is 35% without charging the phone. Battery drains very quickly when I use the phone and on standby it regains few %. very weird behavior. I'm not sure, where the issue lies? I want to know what is the issue? Hardware or software? If hardware which (battery,circuit,cpu,chipset) and software then which(kernel, rom,baseband)?

There is no issue, that is normal behavior.
My battery also recharges up to 10% without being plugged in. Though I've never seen it charge 26%.

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[Q] Battery level showing problem 50% to 15%.

Samsung GT-T5800. Android OS 2.1-update 1, I5800XXJH1, Kernel 2.6.29 root SE-S603 #2.
The problem:
1. Battery till 50% discharges normally - about 10-15% per day, but after 50% it immediately shows 15% and asks to connect charger and phone switches off very fast. actually no chance to mane even emergency call. No 40%, no 30%, no 20% in battery level.
2. When connect phone to charger - battery charging level immediately set to 80% or every ~10 seconds: 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%. After that phone charges about 1,5-2 hours till 100% and after about 1-2hours it asks to disconnect from the charger. Battery temperature during charging and after it: 31-33C.
After 3d 8h 40min. (~80hours using applications: Battery booster and Memory Booster, no 3G) of battery usage phone switches off.
Battery usage was:
Android system: 61%
Cell Standby: 19%
Phone Idle: 12%
Bluetooth: 4%
Voice calls: 4%
Time from 15% to 5% - 15 minutes with no using the phone. Battery's temperature 20C, Voltage: 3588mV Phone switches off. I have tried 2-3 times to switch on the phone to make battery more empty and finally switched it on and at the same time connected it to charger.
Here is the interesting charging time line after phone died and was switched on to charge it (sorry - no in seconds):
0:00 - 1% - 20C/3588mV (temperature/voltage)
0:01 - 3%
0:01 - 5%
0:01 - 15%
0:02 - 15%
0:03 - 30%
0:03 - 40%
0:04 - 30%
0:05 - 15%
0:07 - 15%
0:09 - 30%
0:12 - 40%
0:14 - 30%
0:15 - 15%
0:16 - 30% - 28C/3698mV
0:18 - 40% - 28C/3718mV
0:20 - 50% - 28C/3730mV
0:21 - 40% - 28C/3727mV
0:23 - 50% - 27C/3728mV
0:36 - 60% -
0:36 - 50% - 26C/3769mV
0:37 - 60% - 26C/3774mV
0:59 - 60% - 26C/3807mV
1:24 - 60% - 26C/3807mV
2:06 - 70%
2:07 - 80% - 26C/3906mV
2:44 - 90% - 26C/3971mV
3:18 -100% - 25C/4101mV
4:03 -100% - 22C/4184mV - Asked to disconnect the charger.
After this charge GT-I5800 (with no any software changes) stoped to show 50% to 15%, but 30% disappears fast to 15% (it means one short call).
Possible that battery issue reason is that (I think) phone was charged partly switched off and partly switched on.
Maybe there are some battery level controlling OS software bugs, I do not know.
Is it official bug or issue?
Or some guru can comment that battery level issue? I saw I was not first user having it.
should be from the firmware
it seems this happening to all
Well i also have exactly the same issue...
I have observed that when i make/recieve a call the battery voltage decreases greatly because of which the battery also decreases and after sometime the battery voltage comes back to normal but NOT the battery.
My battery also drops down from 50% to 15% or 5%.....It's really very annoying...
I think that this is a frimware issue but i am not sure..I am scared that it could be a hardware issue...
Well i have mailed Samsung also regarding this issue so that they fix this issue in the next frimware upgrade and hope others also do the same so that we have a better chance of this bug getting fixed.....!!!
pravarthegreatest said:
Well i also have exactly the same issue...
I have observed that when i make/recieve a call the battery voltage decreases greatly because of which the battery also decreases and after sometime the battery voltage comes back to normal but NOT the battery.
My battery also drops down from 50% to 15% or 5%.....It's really very annoying...
I think that this is a frimware issue but i am not sure..I am scared that it could be a hardware issue...
Well i have mailed Samsung also regarding this issue so that they fix this issue in the next frimware upgrade and hope others also do the same so that we have a better chance of this bug getting fixed.....!!!
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And when I switch off / on the phone then it shows probably correct vallue. For an example. It shows me 15% and after restart it is 60 %. What a stupid bug - I've never have this problem with any device before. Even phones 10 years ago were able to show correct battery status. I think this problem was also with original 2.1 android firmware.
Can someone who has upgraded to froyo pl. confirm that this issue is resolved in the new firmware?
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TekkenLaw said:
Can someone who has upgraded to froyo pl. confirm that this issue is resolved in the new firmware?
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yes, in JP9 / froyo is still this battery problem. When I switch on / off the phone then it's ok. Does someone resolved this issue please ?
My issue still exists. Froyo did not help. Also I can't understand why does one time on charging battery becomes hot, another time -cold.
same for me, and today i charged my phone and after charging just put it on my table after 1h i saw that there are only 80%. Didn't see this on other firmwares
Same here. I thought it is because of my battery manager widget which I had installed, but un-installing/master clear also did not help. Looks like it is major problem. Moreover, few of the battery widgets mention that in some devices they report 1% level battery change, but in Samsung I5801, it will be 10%.
what about this issue at JPA ?
when you was installing JPA did you hard reset your phone ? (factory settings)
If yes which application do you use for restore all of the datas and settigns ?
Yes, it was done. Hard reset seems is not related, and did not help.
Same problem here...
Since built in battery meter is not accurate at all Im using custom one but problem remains.
might fix battery issue.
might work...saw it for Epic 4g and gave it a shot (as its Samsung too). Some sites say LiON do not have memory like NiCd did but somehow it worked for me. Now I stay on 100% for 5hrs or so. lasting 2 days with 45mins call time and some Wifi use. Like today charged full 100% at 9AM and now its 2230 and I have 80%.I have switched off a lot of things. See below.
http://androidforums.com/epic-4g-tips-tricks/171804-recalibrating-battery.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701567
Above needs to be done once only. If it doesn't work then go to service center. Remember battery has 6 months warranty only so be quick and try above on new battery.
I also run LauncherPro instead of stock. Disabled data and enable when out of AP range (only use Wifi when needed and have an AP). Background data/synch is always off unless I use market. All apps are set to never except Gmail. Use K9 Email too and ATK. Am on DDj6 FM. Have removed a lot of apps, foursquare included and run 2 screen with LauncherPro widgets only.
Settings to switch off are here.
http://jvoegele.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-improve-battery-life-for-samsung.html
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-hack-your-htc-evo-4g-increase-battery-life-373058/
afalak said:
might work...saw it for Epic 4g and gave it a shot (as its Samsung too). Some sites say LiON do not have memory like NiCd did but somehow it worked for me. Now I stay on 100% for 5hrs or so. lasting 2 days with 45mins call time and some Wifi use. Like today charged full 100% at 9AM and now its 2230 and I have 80%.I have switched off a lot of things. See below.
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As long as I know li ion batteries doesnt have the memory effect but they still have to be recalibrated from time to time, lets say once a month. That means dont charge the phone until it goes off and then charge to the top.
I wasnt willing to wait for 11 hours for phone to charge when I bought it and after few days I ve notice that battery last very short. After that I ve performed the full cycle (drain to the bottom - when phone turn itself off, then after few minutes turn it on, wait until it goes off - repeat few times until its completely off then charge it fully - I usually turn off the phone while charging ).
As long as I know all modern devices like phones, notebooks etc shut down before the battery is completely drained because they want to have safe margin of the battery power because of, as long as I know, when li ion batteries become completely drained then could be damaged completely so you cant recharge them again. Anyway with that "turn on then its drained" I believe that I use the battery more than normal and that phone will recalibrate to the new situation figuring that battery have more voltage than phone "expected".
Anyway with few recharging cycles like those I ve described above I can use the phone now for a 2 days with moderate usage...
That 50-15 problem still exist but 100% period last quite long and also phone can be used a long time from the moment battery reach 15% ...
Try doing it the other way round!
Keep your device on constant charge or at least as much as possible for 10 days from new and you should have now problem.
I have run tests on Lion powered devices for the past 5 years and I have never had to "calibrate" once.
My battery usage is always consistent and seemingly accurate.
And this method encourages max power from the battery.
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i just flashed my I5801 with Froyo (XXJPB and then XXJPA), but having very low battery back up, can anyone advice something which can help boosting the performance of the battery? Please help.

battery from 100% to 10% in 20 minutes

today i woke up and unplugged my nexus from charging.the battery was 100%
after 20 min,with all turned off,wifi 3g etc,i made a call.after finishing the call message came in my screen..."please charge your device,10% battery"
wow...i said,something is wrong,my eyes are wrong.i turned off,then on again,but battery still was at 10%...
after that i charged again...
anyone had the same problem?here in a forum in greece,2 people had the same problem..i have to say i am rooted and paranoid rom...
So first thing is to figure out is a hardware or software problem. Is your battery prematurely going bad? Or has some sort of software you installed caused this bug.
So if you do a full factory reset, putting stock kernel, and stock android os on it, then you can see if it was software or hardware, i.e. if it happens again it is a hardware problem, and if it doesn't then it probably was a bug with the rom you are using.
There's a small bug in the Nexus 4 that causes it to sometimes read off wrong battery values. Usually a reboot fixes this. So unless the same thing happens again, I would assume it's just an unharmful bug . A tip to see whether it's been actual usage or a bug that "drained" or drained your battery: go into android's battery settings. If the graph is running in a straight line from 100% to 10%, it's likely that it wasn't usage but a bug that simply read the wrong battery values. If it's actual usuage that drained the battery, the graph should show a more fuzzy, not-so-straight line.
Happens sometimes the other way, 10% to 100% in about seconds.

Battery problems after Lollipop upgrade, but downgrading hasn't solved the issue.

My Samsung Galaxy S5 started having battery problems after the Lollipop update. Since many users has reported the same thing I downgraded to KitKat, which included a complete wipe of all apps, but that did not change anything. Maybe the Lollipod upgrade had nothing to do with this?
I did a comparison with my SO's identical phone. I fully charged them, put them in Airplane mode and let them be for 100 minutes. The results? Her phone had 96% left. Mine had 82%. **Four times** as much battery used! Battery monitors report nothing except that the screen and the android system uses most of the battery.
Another unusual thing: normally the phone automatically shuts off at 1% but now it shuts itself off randomly at 2% to as high as 12%. Battery calibration out of order or a dying battery? No, because I switched the battery with my SO's and I still experience the same issues.
I still have warranty left, but we all know that would likely mean I will be without phone for a month so I want to try everything I can first. Does anyone have any suggestions on this issue?

qpnp-smbcharger-ffffffc00ea20400 wakelock issue

Subject of this thread is listed as a major kernel wake lock at times for me. Anyone know exactly what that is?
Aridon said:
Subject of this thread is listed as a major kernel wake lock at times for me. Anyone know exactly what that is?
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I just started seeing this wakelock also. I haven't changed anything lately and it just appeared. I hope someone has an answer.
Aridon said:
Subject of this thread is listed as a major kernel wake lock at times for me. Anyone know exactly what that is?
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I just started getting it since updating to 6.0.1 PN. I switched to AK Synapse and it drastically reduced it, but it is still there. Only info I can find is much older phones. I am using an LED manager...wonder if that could be it. May freeze it this week and see.
murphyjasonc said:
I just started seeing this wakelock also. I haven't changed anything lately and it just appeared. I hope someone has an answer.
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KennyG123 said:
I just started getting it since updating to 6.0.1 PN. I switched to AK Synapse and it drastically reduced it, but it is still there. Only info I can find is much older phones. I am using an LED manager...wonder if that could be it. May freeze it this week and see.
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I believe that wakelock is from charging. I don't know why but the device doesn't seem to register as deep sleep with better battery stats when fully charged and then idle but still plugged in. Likely an issue with the program and not the phone.
However if you want to test this simply charge your phone over night. Once it hits 100% it will stop charging at some point and go into sleep mode. The device is still plugged in but won't charge anymore. Device will use power, mine is usually around 95 or 93% when I fire it up and use a little juice in the morning. During this time the device uses battery quickly until it drops to 89% or so then normal discharge rate. This is normal of most android devices I've had and most everyone here is aware of this:
http://phandroid.com/2010/12/25/you...is-lying-to-you-and-its-not-such-a-bad-thing/
Getting back to the wakelock issue, f you check better battery stats this wakelock shows up under the above condition. You'll notice the time on this wakelock is usually the sum of the device on but screen off time and your screen on usage or pretty close to it.
Now charge your device to full while waiting for it (as in not going to leave it for 4+ hours on the charger after it is full). Once it stops charging at 100% pull the device. Use as normally.
Now the device is fully charged. Really this time and not just the UI telling you it's full. When you use it throughout your day and then check better battery stats you'll notice the wakelock is no longer there or nearly so depending on how fast you got the device off the charger after it was full.
End result is this seems like a reporting issue with better battery stats or the device not fully going into deep sleep while being plugged in. I would tend to lean on a reporting issue as discharge time seems about normal at 1% or so per hour while idle and that tends to hold true to my regular doze discharge.
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This seems more like a reporting issue than actual wakelock. Any significant battery drain when fully charged can be explained by the link above and testing as I have explained in the post.
Aridon said:
I believe that wakelock is from charging. I don't know why but the device doesn't seem to register as deep sleep with better battery stats when fully charged and then idle but still plugged in. Likely an issue with the program and not the phone.
However if you want to test this simply charge your phone over night. Once it hits 100% it will stop charging at some point and go into sleep mode. The device is still plugged in but won't charge anymore. Device will use power, mine is usually around 95 or 93% when I fire it up and use a little juice in the morning. During this time the device uses battery quickly until it drops to 89% or so then normal discharge rate. This is normal of most android devices I've had and most everyone here is aware of this:
http://phandroid.com/2010/12/25/you...is-lying-to-you-and-its-not-such-a-bad-thing/
Getting back to the wakelock issue, f you check better battery stats this wakelock shows up under the above condition. You'll notice the time on this wakelock is usually the sum of the device on but screen off time and your screen on usage or pretty close to it.
Now charge your device to full while waiting for it (as in not going to leave it for 4+ hours on the charger after it is full). Once it stops charging at 100% pull the device. Use as normally.
Now the device is fully charged. Really this time and not just the UI telling you it's full. When you use it throughout your day and then check better battery stats you'll notice the wakelock is no longer there or nearly so depending on how fast you got the device off the charger after it was full.
End result is this seems like a reporting issue with better battery stats or the device not fully going into deep sleep while being plugged in. I would tend to lean on a reporting issue as discharge time seems about normal at 1% or so per hour while idle and that tends to hold true to my regular doze discharge.
TLDR:
This seems more like a reporting issue than actual wakelock. Any significant battery drain when fully charged can be explained by the link above and testing as I have explained in the post.
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The only thing is this wakelock doesn't start until after I unplug it and leave for work. It grows during the day..so is it faulty reporting? Something is using my phone when idle for about 2 hours a day with screen and sync off at 384 Mhz and that wakelock usually shows at about an hour and 10 minutes or so. I have also done as you said and after it dropped to 97% charged it back up and pulled it off immediately..same wakelock and similar time. Also this wakelock was not there with 6.0.0. So Google changed something with 6.0.1 that brought this to life for me. Also interestingly, this wakelock was at about 4-6 hours with stock kernel. I changed to AK kernel and that is what made it drop to about an hour and doubled my standby time.
OK, I froze Light Manager with TB and this wakelock went away. This was the only new thing I added to 6.0.1 to get the battery fully charged light to not change until 100%. Stock changes it at 90% for some stupid reason. So if anyone is using an LED manager, try removing it for a day and see if that makes this wakelock go away.
so here is the source. Are you guys all using the stock charger that came with the device? Only reason I ask is because I didn't start seeing this until I started using a samsung charger with a micro to c adapter.... I think
Reported at 93% it's my highest wakelock. Stock charger and no LED manager installed. Other causes or fixes?
I too have this at the top of my wakelocks. Did anyone else find a solution? I don't have any led managers
Same issue for Lenovo p2
Same issue with Lenovo p2. Anyone has any solution for this?
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/P2-P2a...t-keep-awake-quot-after-charging/td-p/3861495
Exact same problem here... any luck guys?
HTC 10 (Stock Australian Variant - 7.0)
I contacted Lenovo support on email. As usual they told me to do FACTORY RESET. I did factory reset but eventually after couple of days issue started again.
there is some issue with SMB1351 chip on motherboard of Lenovo P2. but they are not able to figure it out. In battery stat, there is no issue with any of the apps which i installed on my phone.
any help on this is greatly appreciated.....

LG V20 Overnight Drain

Hello,
So I've had the V20 since it first came out and I'm loving it. With the stock battery, I'd charge it every night and not notice many issues. Noticed a respectable 3-4 hours of SOT, which is decent but not spectacular. Then i got the Zerolemon 10,000mAh extended battery for it and I still feel like the phone doesn't have the battery life it should. With the extended battery in, I would sometimes leave it unplugged overnight and lose 15-18% (which, in a 3x battery, correlates to almost 50% of a stock battery) in just one night. So i'm wondering, any apps/servies that just guzzle battery overnight? Any info is a help, thanks!
Good possibility that the new battery you have may be junk.
But you'll have to pop the stock battery in and do battery usage comparisons between the two.
Have you calibrated the Zero Lemon battery? Run it all the way down until it turns off the phone. Pull the battery and then put it back in turn the phone back on to make sure the battery is drained all the way.
Then recharge it without disturbing it. Recommend doing this overnight.
Also make sure you aren't switching batteries once you've got the lemon calibrated otherwise your battery gauge won't read accurately.
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evo4g63t said:
Have you calibrated the Zero Lemon battery? Run it all the way down until it turns off the phone. Pull the battery and then put it back in turn the phone back on to make sure the battery is drained all the way.
Then recharge it without disturbing it. Recommend doing this overnight.
Also make sure you aren't switching batteries once you've got the lemon calibrated otherwise your battery gauge won't read accurately.
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Yeah i might have to, i've been trying to avoid that. I honestly think that it's the phone not the battery, because when i leave it alone overnight it loses like 12-16%. Losing that even off a stock battery is ridiculous so i figured it was something with the phone that caused it to run all night without dozing. i read up on some threads about wakelocks after installing GSam and seeing that the phone is held awake quite a lot (as i type this, i'm sitting on 72%, 13h16m of usage, 3h5m SOT, and 4h28m held awake. So i honestly think it's the phone, but then again if i do drain it down then do a battery pull and it jumps up to 30-40%, then i'll know it was the battery
Also, would you recommend once the phone shuts off plugging it in and leaving it off, or turning it back on once i plug it in?
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Also, would you recommend once the phone shuts off plugging it in and leaving it off, or turning it back on once i plug it in?
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Don't think its the battery, it's highly likely the ROM you're using. I had terrible life after the last update.
MidtownHD said:
Don't think its the battery, it's highly likely the ROM you're using. I had terrible life after the last update.
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I'm running bone stock on everything, no root
Update: been getting significantly better battery life after doing two things:
1. Turned off Bluetooth location scanning (I already had WiFi scanning turned off).
2. Using my phone without WiFi on (on the chance that it might be the WiFi causing wakelocks, which is something I researched a bit with the help of GSam. Wifioffdelayifnotused was the suspected culprit).
I'm not sure which one could be the bigger factor, but I'm going to leave my phone unplugged overnight with WiFi off, then after tomorrow night when i charge it fully again I'm going to see how much battery life I get with WiFi on (this way I should be able to determine if it was the Bluetooth scanning, or the WiFi.)
Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!
Had a zerolemon on my Galaxy S4 and while it was a great battery that added a lot of additional life, I never felt I got enough extra life that corresponded to the amount of mAh that the zerolemon brought. Though it wasn't anything like what you are describing. Just never felt like I got 3x the battery life even though it was like 3x the mAh amount but maybe that's just because I don't understand the whole science behind the mAh ratings on batteries.
Update part 2: turning off the Bluetooth scanning and Wifi (only yesterday, had wifi on today) has resulted in much better battery life so far. Oddly enough, early on it seemed a lot better, on pace for almost 15 hours SOT. I'm at 18% now and almost at 10, but still pretty good and better than what I was getting. I'm chalking it up to the Bluetooth scanning since I use an Android wear watch that I leave always connected. I'll do another full drain tomorrow after charging it tonight, this time leaving wifi on to see how much of a difference the Bluetooth scanning makes (3rd pic is early on when I was on pace for 15h SOT; left phone unplugged last night and stayed at 64% all night. So my 12-18% overnight drain (40-ish% on stock battery) problem is cured )
hi
my v20 phone battery draining was about 1% per hour before (about 7% totally ) and recently increased to 2% during sleeping time overnight. (draining 15% overnight in sleeping state) .this situation's screenshot is attached and named : Screenshot_2018_01_21_07_05_15.
it seems that during day either performance off battery is decreased.(about 5h with wifi and screen on usage)
Fast charging while second screen is On , is slower than when it is off therefore when second screen is Off , fast charging goes better . exactly , first 30 mins fast charging makes about 40% battery charge(instead of 50%) and after 60 min leads to 85% and full charging taking place after about 100 min instead of 80 mins.
another important thing is that sometimes shades have been seen on the LCD that many users have complained about it.
phone information is :
Android security patch level: September 1, 2017
BASEBAND : MPSS.TH.2.0.1.c3-00045-M8996FAAAANAZM-1
KERNEL : 3.18.31
BUILD NUMBER : NRD90M
SOFTWARE VERSION : V10g-AME-XX
MODEL NUMBER : LG-H990ds
my actions are as follows :
phone is factory reseted. No third party apps is installed. [especially social media apps.]
battery calibration steps for not rooted phones is taken place.(turning off the phone and charging several times repeatedly).
testing battery drain in safe mode in done and didn't change results
turn off location services and location scanning for WiFi and Bluetooth scanning
turn off WiFi being On during screen is Off.
turn off auto sync, NFC, GPS etc.
not using auto brightness.
not using comfort view .
turn off location services and location scanning for WiFi and Bluetooth scanning
second screen is off during test overnight. (either with second screen is ON with faced down to lower brightness in other day test [this situation's screenshot is attached and named : Screenshot_2018_01_21_07_49_27] )
phone is in Air Plane Mode and all data services is off.
system apps like Google services and Play and Assistance is limited by permissions.
following are some advanced battery drain overnight figures of my phone for more analyzing.
any help with this issue is appreciated.

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