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Uptime: 2hours 27minutes and x amount of seconds and dead.
did I break the record for stress testing it?
Anyways, anyone got any tips on battery life? I was thinking of getting 3000mah or 3500mah, but the design of it (bulky) just doesn't seem the right option in my mind.
Also anyone here actually have the 3000mah or 3500mah so they can chime in on the design + battery life compared to the original?
just powered the phone back up. and it says battery is at 50%. wtf.
It turned off on its own cause of low battery, and now it says 50%?
E-gad the ghost recharge strikes again.
I had the same thing happen this morning. Woke up to a dead phone, plugged in, boot ed and battery showed around 70%... Go figure
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I am trying batteryfu this week from market and got 15.5 hrs with 5% left today. Give it a shot, it is free. Moderate user.
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search the thread i found a topic on battery life and was gonna try it tomo..... about turning the phone off charging for 8 hours then on for an hour..... its a few steps worth a shot..... in the mean time i would deff do a factory reset....will deff help
Last-Chance said:
just powered the phone back up. and it says battery is at 50%. wtf.
It turned off on its own cause of low battery, and now it says 50%?
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Battery may not be calibrated correctly. I have to say my only major disappointment with the EVO is how the battery life is so tied to the particular rom I'm using. I mean I expect different drain rates on different roms, but having to recalibrate the battery every time I switch roms is just plain dumb.
Mr Ian B said:
I am trying batteryfu this week from market and got 15.5 hrs with 5% left today. Give it a shot, it is free. Moderate user.
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downloading now. Juice defender didn't really do anything for me. 1.20x the normal battery, well thats what it says anyways. thanks
Nismo-b15 said:
search the thread i found a topic on battery life and was gonna try it tomo..... about turning the phone off charging for 8 hours then on for an hour..... its a few steps worth a shot..... in the mean time i would deff do a factory reset....will deff help
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I'll try that as well, thanks
sk63 said:
Battery may not be calibrated correctly. I have to say my only major disappointment with the EVO is how the battery life is so tied to the particular rom I'm using. I mean I expect different drain rates on different roms, but having to recalibrate the battery every time I switch roms is just plain dumb.
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Sorry for the noob question, but how do you recalibrate the battery?
Last-Chance said:
downloading now. Juice defender didn't really do anything for me. 1.20x the normal battery, well thats what it says anyways. thanks
I'll try that as well, thanks
Sorry for the noob question, but how do you recalibrate the battery?
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Juice defender did not do it for me either. I got 1.58 but too many things were turned off to get there. What is the purpose of a smart phone if everything has to be turned off to save battery.
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Juice defender did not do it for me either. I got 1.58 but too many things were turned off to get there. What is the purpose of a smart phone if everything has to be turned off to save battery.
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It used to work for me, but now it is doing the same thing. Im at 1.76 now but for the past week it was stuck on 1.00, then slowly went up with each flash.
just a quick update. The reason the battery showed empty one minute and then it showed 50% the next was because of the heat. The phone was very hot when I was playing with it, and then when it cooled down it seemed to have fixed itself or w/e. Happened again today.
im sure its been answered..but how do we calibrate the battery?
Pretty sure you can erase the battery stats through clockwork recovery. Also there is a way through ADB which is pretty easy too
Sorry I don't have any links atm.
This has been driving me nuts for ages, and now I just use the battery to transfer my phone from one charger to another! But to be honest I haven't tried anything to fix it as yet.
It started with my phone shutting down when I took a few photos - now, if my phone gets down to 80% I expect it to shutdown. It won't fire back up until I put it on charge.
Occasionally when I try to turn it back on, it wont fire up, and the blue LED comes on and stays on until I charge it or take the battery out.
Occasionally it will reach 50%, but that would be a rare occasion! I do still have the original battery, which is now over two years old.
It's a great phone - if only the battery would last longer than 10 minutes under use! It hasn't been rooted or anything - it is as I got it from new.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
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I do still have the original battery, which is now over two years old.
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A new battery is really cheap ( 15-25 usds) and probably would solve your problem.
There is no reason for this topic unless you have the original battery.
magicdrshoon said:
This has been driving me nuts for ages, and now I just use the battery to transfer my phone from one charger to another! But to be honest I haven't tried anything to fix it as yet.
It started with my phone shutting down when I took a few photos - now, if my phone gets down to 80% I expect it to shutdown. It won't fire back up until I put it on charge.
Occasionally when I try to turn it back on, it wont fire up, and the blue LED comes on and stays on until I charge it or take the battery out.
Occasionally it will reach 50%, but that would be a rare occasion! I do still have the original battery, which is now over two years old.
It's a great phone - if only the battery would last longer than 10 minutes under use! It hasn't been rooted or anything - it is as I got it from new.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
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Your battery needs to be replaced..
Dial *#0228# this will reset the battery calibration. Charge it to 100%..
see if the problem still remains that means your battery is almost dead and expect a random shutdowns at anytime
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heisenberg7 said:
A new battery is really cheap ( 15-25 usds) and probably would solve your problem.
There is no reason for this topic unless you have the original battery.
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I understand that the battery is probably past it's best, but it was the fact that it states that it has lots of life left, and then acts as if it doesn't that throws me. That's the reason why I have posted this topic.
Amar.B said:
Your battery needs to be replaced..
Dial *#0228# this will reset the battery calibration. Charge it to 100%..
see if the problem still remains that means your battery is almost dead and expect a random shutdowns at anytime
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I've done this now. Thanks for the tip. It doesn't seem to have made any difference though so it's probably just the battery.
I just expected it to indicate the correct battery level in the battery level indicator.
You live and learn! Thanks for the replies.
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I understand that the battery is probably past it's best, but it was the fact that it states that it has lots of life left, and then acts as if it doesn't that throws me. That's the reason why I have posted this topic.
I've done this now. Thanks for the tip. It doesn't seem to have made any difference though so it's probably just the battery.
I just expected it to indicate the correct battery level in the battery level indicator.
You live and learn! Thanks for the replies.
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Anytime mate.. cheers
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Just wanted to point out, without evidence yet, that battery life on Nougat (Concept update 38.3.A.0.107) is amazing. I'm talking about days here.
¿Anyone else experiencing this?
As for the evidence, I will charge my phone to 100% today and upload a battery life screencap as soon as I can.
What? I need that firmware! My battery goes from 80 to 70 in 5 minutes On screen time!!!
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Just a quick update with a screenshot. Just 2h short of a day with 14% to go, the mostly horizontal part of the graph happened when I was asleep.
SOT for that is 3h13m
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Hi,
Just a quick update with a screenshot. Just 2h short of a day with 14% to go, the mostly horizontal part of the graph happened when I was asleep.
SOT for that is 3h13m
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SOT 3h is supposed to be good? Your battery life is as worse as mine (Im running poison)
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SOT 3h is supposed to be good? Your battery life is as worse as mine (Im running poison)
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FoxTheLegend said:
What? I need that firmware! My battery goes from 80 to 70 in 5 minutes On screen time!!!
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Um... ok?
Maybe I'm coming from a terrible phone and this seems very good then.
Nevertheless, I can tell you for sure that my phone isn't dropping 10% batt in 5min SOT.
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Um... ok?
Maybe I'm coming from a terrible phone and this seems very good then.
Nevertheless, I can tell you for sure that my phone isn't dropping 10% batt in 5min SOT.
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well now that I have applied some fixes and calibration it isn't in mine either. I am not sure really, but 3 hours of SOT is just not good, and Im coming from a bad phone too
I'm thinking x-reality might be disabled afteryour update. My screen takes up 30 percent battery with x-reality on.
I never havwe x reality on.. seriously yoy think I didnt check it or what
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SOT 3h is supposed to be good? Your battery life is as worse as mine (Im running poison)
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With poison i have more than 6 hours SOT. Without any mods. With the original rom i had 5 and a half hours SOT.
I dont understand.. my phone is brand new, I have optimasations, underclock and everything except wifi is off.. what am I doing wrong? I have also calibrated the battery, full discharge ans full charge, its not any app im using since with stock and. nothing. installed battery runs the same.. Also the camera is worse after the drm fix than before drm fix (too much noise) the hell is wrong with my phone??
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I dont understand.. my phone is brand new, I have optimasations, underclock and everything except wifi is off.. what am I doing wrong? I have also calibrated the battery, full discharge ans full charge, its not any app im using since with stock and. nothing. installed battery runs the same.. Also the camera is worse after the drm fix than before drm fix (too much noise) the hell is wrong with my phone??
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you too are in concept rom? because that is standard now battery going way too fast, try installing gsam app and give permissions via adb so you can check which app is consuming too much power, i have done it but i still can't figue out what is causing it
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you too are in concept rom? because that is standard now battery going way too fast, try installing gsam app and give permissions via adb so you can check which app is consuming too much power, i have done it but i still can't figue out what is causing it
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No, I am using the poison nougat rom. Actually, I have been using gsam for 2 weeks I think, just like you I cannot find the problem. My SOT is 3 hours, 4 hours at best. And keep in mind that is with very simple usage , not any intense apps or games
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No, I am using the poison nougat rom. Actually, I have been using gsam for 2 weeks I think, just like you I cannot find the problem. My SOT is 3 hours, 4 hours at best. And keep in mind that is with very simple usage , not any intense apps or games
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So it's not only in the conpcet rom, also in poison maybe fully stock doesn't have those issues??
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So it's not only in the conpcet rom, also in poison maybe fully stock doesn't have those issues??
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As I have said again, even in stock rom I have the same results... that makes me worry. I hope its not a hardware problem
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As I have said again, even in stock rom I have the same results... that makes me worry. I hope its not a hardware problem
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Really stock does too? now you've got me wondering if it's a hardware problem now
Every phone has these kind of problems
My battery life is shocking. I do use my device a lot so it's understandable.
There is battery tweaks out there to help people with problems. Someone will bring something out or find something for our devices
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Every phone has these kind of problems
My battery life is shocking. I do use my device a lot so it's understandable.
There is battery tweaks out there to help people with problems. Someone will bring something out or find something for our devices
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Correct, but in our case it is beyond normal. 3 hours O-S-T is not normal for this phone in any case
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Correct, but in our case it is beyond normal. 3 hours O-S-T is not normal for this phone in any case
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Oh yeah agree but it's not like there's loads of reported cases there's less than on handful just on our threads.
I'm not debating there isn't a problem.
fezta said:
Oh yeah agree but it's not like there's loads of reported cases there's less than on handful just on our threads.
I'm not debating there isn't a problem.
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Yeah, I understand what you mean, the problem here is that we do not know if it's connected to software (or somehow to the bootloader / root probably not though) or if it's the actual phone being faulty. I doubt it's faulty, I have absolutely no problems apart from the drainage
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Yeah, I understand what you mean, the problem here is that we do not know if it's connected to software (or somehow to the bootloader / root probably not though) or if it's the actual phone being faulty. I doubt it's faulty, I have absolutely no problems apart from the drainage
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Yea I'm the same mate no problem other than battery I'm sure we will find something out soon enough dude
I am in desperate need of help, I've only had this phone for like a week and I really like it but the battery life is abysmal. I'm getting less than an hour of screen on time, the phone is using about 10% per hour when in my pocket.
I've done the factory reset, deleting everything, downloaded greenify and absolutely no progress has been made.
Phone Idle and Android OS is sucking up about 20% of my battery. For the first couple of days I was getting about 2 hours of SOT and that's the best I've gotten so far. I just bought this thing and I really want to keep it but I can't afford to have this thing dying on me when it's just in my pocket don't nothing. Please ANY help would be appreciated, thank you!
Which model do you have?
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Which model do you have?
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I have the T-Mobile variant.
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I am in desperate need of help, I've only had this phone for like a week and I really like it but the battery life is abysmal. I'm getting less than an hour of screen on time, the phone is using about 10% per hour when in my pocket.
I've done the factory reset, deleting everything, downloaded greenify and absolutely no progress has been made.
Phone Idle and Android OS is sucking up about 20% of my battery. For the first couple of days I was getting about 2 hours of SOT and that's the best I've gotten so far. I just bought this thing and I really want to keep it but I can't afford to have this thing dying on me when it's just in my pocket don't nothing. Please ANY help would be appreciated, thank you!
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Seems to me you may have a flawed device? 2 hours sot at best with a new device and new battery is horrendous, I have the T-Mobile variant as well, was refurbished and I'm getting a solid 15 hours with anywhere from 3.5-5 hours sot! Depending on usage so I believe you may have a defective V20 friend. I'm going to keep an eye on this thread see if anything comes up
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I am in desperate need of help, I've only had this phone for like a week and I really like it but the battery life is abysmal. I'm getting less than an hour of screen on time, the phone is using about 10% per hour when in my pocket.
I've done the factory reset, deleting everything, downloaded greenify and absolutely no progress has been made.
Phone Idle and Android OS is sucking up about 20% of my battery. For the first couple of days I was getting about 2 hours of SOT and that's the best I've gotten so far. I just bought this thing and I really want to keep it but I can't afford to have this thing dying on me when it's just in my pocket don't nothing. Please ANY help would be appreciated, thank you!
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You could try getting an extended battery for it. It worked for mine. I recommend the Zerolemon 10,000mah extended battery. You can find it on Amazon.
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You could try getting an extended battery for it. It worked for mine. I recommend the Zerolemon 10,000mah extended battery. You can find it on Amazon.
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That would mask the problem, not fix it. He would then probably get 2 hours of screen on time when he should be getting 6-7 with an extended battery.
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That would mask the problem, not fix it. He would then probably get 2 hours of screen on time when he should be getting 6-7 with an extended battery.
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He could just have a faulty battery. Which is what was wrong with mine.
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He could just have a faulty battery. Which is what was wrong with mine.
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Yeah every once in a while I get "Invalid Battery" and it shuts down and I have to leave the battery out for 10 minutes or else it will do the same thing. It's happened 3 times in the past week. Did you have the same problems and it was fixed with a new battery? I don't get it tho the battery is OEM...
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Yeah every once in a while I get "Invalid Battery" and it shuts down and I have to leave the battery out for 10 minutes or else it will do the same thing. It's happened 3 times in the past week. Did you have the same problems and it was fixed with a new battery? I don't get it tho the battery is OEM...
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Is the battery new, is your phone refurbished, water damaged battery? Old battery in New phone? Something is up with your battery it sounds like. Would be the easiest thing to replace and test. It could be the phone itself having a hard time receiving the charge (faulty pins)
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Is the battery new, is your phone refurbished, water damaged battery? Old battery in New phone? Something is up with your battery it sounds like. Would be the easiest thing to replace and test. It could be the phone itself having a hard time receiving the charge (faulty pins)
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I would think the SOT would show this, not Android OS or Phone Idle right?
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I would think the SOT would show this, not Android OS or Phone Idle right?
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Yeah that's a good point! It's not an app because you factory reset, defective device is all I can think
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Yeah that's a good point! It's not an app because you factory reset, defective device is all I can think
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The phone was new for sure, but the battery was already installed in the phone when I opened the box. Is that normal? I watched a couple unboxing videos and they had the battery separate.
Likely unrelated to the ROM (hadesRom 6.0), but my S8 has been having weird battery issues as in almost instantly draining once reaching ~30-40% battery and just shutting off. Up until the point battery drain is normal if not better than it has been before, but this is still a major issue.
Any ideas/help?
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Likely unrelated to the ROM (hadesRom 6.0), but my S8 has been having weird battery issues as in almost instantly draining once reaching ~30-40% battery and just shutting off. Up until the point battery drain is normal if not better than it has been before, but this is still a major issue.
Any ideas/help?
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Mine also. Once it reached below 30%, it will suddenly drop to 10% even on idle. It's been more than a year since i got this phone, and i just recently rooted it and install a new custom ROM. is it because of the battery itself? degrading?
Good day.
A friend of mine had an similar problem and solved it by disabling the system app called "ARCore". It's an google augmented reality plataform app. Try disabing or update the app.
yoorie016 said:
Mine also. Once it reached below 30%, it will suddenly drop to 10% even on idle. It's been more than a year since i got this phone, and i just recently rooted it and install a new custom ROM. is it because of the battery itself? degrading?
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Maybe it's also just an error with battery percentage display, but battery performance seems pretty poor then.
I'll try disabling/freezing ARCore and see if this changes anything ^^
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Likely unrelated to the ROM (hadesRom 6.0), but my S8 has been having weird battery issues as in almost instantly draining once reaching ~30-40% battery and just shutting off. Up until the point battery drain is normal if not better than it has been before, but this is still a major issue.
Any ideas/help?
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yoorie016 said:
Mine also. Once it reached below 30%, it will suddenly drop to 10% even on idle. It's been more than a year since i got this phone, and i just recently rooted it and install a new custom ROM. is it because of the battery itself? degrading?
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This is very common sign when battery is going bad when u start to have these drops . Logically battery should be replaced .
yoorie016 said:
Mine also. Once it reached below 30%, it will suddenly drop to 10% even on idle. It's been more than a year since i got this phone, and i just recently rooted it and install a new custom ROM. is it because of the battery itself? degrading?
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Velcorn said:
Likely unrelated to the ROM (hadesRom 6.0), but my S8 has been having weird battery issues as in almost instantly draining once reaching ~30-40% battery and just shutting off. Up until the point battery drain is normal if not better than it has been before, but this is still a major issue.
Any ideas/help?
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Velcorn said:
Maybe it's also just an error with battery percentage display, but battery performance seems pretty poor then.
I'll try disabling/freezing ARCore and see if this changes anything ^^
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This is very common sign when battery is going bad when u start to have these drops . Logically battery should be replaced .
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hi , i m having the same problem, did you solve it?
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hi , i m having the same problem, did you solve it?
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I just went through it to. I replaced the battery