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Can someone please help me? I just bought a used MDA but it has several problems with it. Here are the problems:
1) The phone has been damaged which causes it to not switch the keyboard light or backlight off at times, and also, when returning from sleep or standby, unit reacts as if the dsown button is being pressed and continues to move down until the d-pad is pressed.
2) Phone depletes both the included battery, the spare battery AND another TESTED AND WORKING MDA battery much faster than normal(1% in 2 minutes or less while idle).
Does anyone have any ideas what could be wrong? Its not Windows because I already updated the version twice and it didnt fix the problem.
BklynHitman88 said:
Can someone please help me? I just bought a used MDA but it has several problems with it. Here are the problems:
1) The phone has been damaged which causes it to not switch the keyboard light or backlight off at times, and also, when returning from sleep or standby, unit reacts as if the dsown button is being pressed and continues to move down until the d-pad is pressed.
2) Phone depletes both the included battery, the spare battery AND another TESTED AND WORKING MDA battery much faster than normal(1% in 2 minutes or less while idle).
Does anyone have any ideas what could be wrong? Its not Windows because I already updated the version twice and it didnt fix the problem.
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What ROM are you using?
What are your IPL/SPL?
What apps do you have installed?
Do you have your IR, bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or any other battery draining resources turned on?
If you did in fact do a ROM upgrade did you flash to a full carrier rom after your CID unlock prior to flashing to a custom rom?
Does the battery in fact go dead when it hits 0%?
Was your battery at 100% when you did your last flash?
When was the last time you calibrated your battery (let it fully discharge then recharge overnight before using device again)?
OK... I'm no expert but i'll answer these as accurately as possible.
If by ROM you mean windows version... then I just updated to the latest version from TMobile.com
I'm not sure what IPL/SPL is.
No apps are installed.
No WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.
Phone was not unlocked.
Battery has never hit 0% so I'm not sure. Will test that immediately.
Battery was at 65% and charging when last flashed.
Never calibrated the battery.
I'm sorry if any of these details are vague or inaccurate but, as I said, I am new to this. Thanks for any help in advance!!!
Well I'm new to this but I successfully CID and SIM unlocked my phone and now I'm running Titanium V2 (WM6) So I can at least tell you if you updated to the current tmobile rom your running IPL/SPL 2.26 Hope this helps.
BklynHitman88 said:
OK... I'm no expert but i'll answer these as accurately as possible.
If by ROM you mean windows version... then I just updated to the latest version from TMobile.com
I'm not sure what IPL/SPL is.
No apps are installed.
No WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.
Phone was not unlocked.
Battery has never hit 0% so I'm not sure. Will test that immediately.
Battery was at 65% and charging when last flashed.
Never calibrated the battery.
I'm sorry if any of these details are vague or inaccurate but, as I said, I am new to this. Thanks for any help in advance!!!
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When you turn on the phone do you see a screen that says IPL 2.26 wiht SPL 2.26 right under it? If you don't then you may have a problem. You said you used a rom from T-Mobile.com so you should have the latest released WM5 build from them and this is good provided the flash was 100% successful.
2 things to try for keyboard light and battery drain:
1. Start -> Settings-> Personal -> Buttons -> Backlight tab
toggle this check box. (unchecked should light keyboard after first key press, checked would light keyboard after first key press only if sensor determines not enough light
2. Start -> Settings -> Connections -> Beam
Make sure the Receive all incoming beams box is unchecked. Otherwise your IR will always be on and looking for signals. Most Comm Managers no longer include the button to turn this off/on in Comm Manager. This can be a big cause of battery drain especially if you are moving around active IR signals that your phone can see quite frequently.
Other than that battery life tends to stabilize over time after the battery is calibrated. Of course you can always try a new radio rom as well as the one that comes with the rom you installed might be excessively searching for signal or switching between two competing towers as the signal strengths vary. The best radio for most users regardless of rom is the T-Mobile UK radio 2.19.11 (I am pretty sure there is a link to it in the wiki) You may have to CID unlock or use the shelltool to flash it though.
Probably the biggest bang for the buck is the radio. I would switch to the 2.19 radio, this is most likely your issue (as far as battery life goes) Of course each person's experience is different so you may have to try multiple radios to find which works the best in your particular coverage area.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for all the quick replies. I'll try the battery saving tips ASAP.
Does anyone have any idea why t could be geting stuck in a downward loop every time it wakes up?
I just recently flashed my phone to gingerbread 2.3.3 (cyanogenmod 7.0.3) and my battery life took a turn for the worst.
It used to last 24 hours or more, but now it only lasts 6-10. It even does it when the screen is off at night, ill wake up and turn it on and its dead.
Also if it helps my kernal is 2.6.29.6-b11.
(yes i am a noob)
there has been long discussions regarding problems with deep sleep (state when phone uses very little cpu when screen is off), this cud be a reason for ur bad battery life, also if ur using any custom kernels. to see if ur getting deep sleep, download an app called cpu spy from market and that tellse u how many hours deep sleep ur getting. or it cud be something else entirely, ive always stuck to a custom stock 2.1, so i cant really advise too much. search for deep sleep and follow ny instructions provided in those threads.
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have a read thru this, it might possibly help u http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100786
edit again: try disabling automatic time and date set up to manual, as ive heard some people had some acces doing this, but as i sed have read thru that thread.
tried to use cpu spy but it FCs on my phone. unchecked auto date and time. im looking into other kernels that may yield better battery, havent found 1 yet that addresses deep sleep issue.
thanks for suggestion dude
Is it the new version? Cause my battery is good.
Hey, I've also heard of a bug in Google Maps. It is continuously running without letting the phone sleep. That's my problem with my battery right now.
seem to have fixed it, i turned auto date and time off and bluetooth and the battery lasts MUCH longer, 24hr plus!
Hi Guys,
I got myself VS 980 used. I liked the phone a lot. The only issue I am having is battery backup problem. Phone hardly give more than 18 hrs battery backup, does not matter if I use it or keep it in idle state. I have tried many ROM's but no use. Tried to check wakelock and found many wakelock in stock ROM's specially in G3 port ROM's. So yesterday I flashed LiquidSmooth Milestone 3.2 with kernel B14CKB1RD expecting amazing battery life like others in the ROM thread but the result was not as expected, still the battery is not giving proper backup. This ROM seems very clean I did not find many wakelocks. I am not able to understand where is the problem. In deep sleep also its using battery. The phone is in airplane mode always, I only use it with wifi. I will be very happy if someone can help me out. Attaching the battery status. Let me know if you guys need anything else from my side.
Regards,
I'm having the same problem!! That weird battery drain started out of nowhere, I've blocked all wakelocks using amplify and Greenify but still the best screen on time I'd get is 4h:10m!! :\ I don't think it's the battery because I've seen a lot people are having it now.. Really really weird
Guys any help on this. Still having the same issue after trying more ROM's and now I have also downgraded the baseband to 12b as well but no improvement
Hey guys.
My first post ever, so please bare with me.
I made a big mistake updating to 4.4.2 coz I've had only problems since that. I have a rooted SM-N9005 with a Danish carrier. I have read and read and read for at fix, but can't seem. to find on. . My problem is this.. I can have a fully charged battery, unplug the phone and can, by using the power button, turn the phone off and on again. BUT if I pull the battery out and insert it again after 10 sec, then the phone doesn't turn on. It only turns if it gets the power cord in again. That's the first problem.
The second on is the battery drain. I have done a dalvik clean, cache partition clean, factory reset, soft reset, hard reset, uinstalled pretty much every app that I have... nothing helps. I even bought a new battery.
Can you guys help me or guide me in the right direction on what to do??
Thank you in advance
Can't help with your first problem, sorry.
How quickly is your battery draining? Can you post a screenshot? And more details - custom/stock ROM, kernel etc.
You can try and pin down what is the biggest battery hog with Better Battery Stats.
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Can't help with your first problem, sorry.
How quickly is your battery draining? Can you post a screenshot? And more details - custom/stock ROM, kernel etc.
You can try and pin down what is the biggest battery hog with Better Battery Stats.
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Hey B3311
Thanks for the reply
A couple of screen shots. Even when using BBS I haven't been able to pin point the exact cut print
Dreadful drain indeed....
Can you see what's under "partial wakelocks" and "kernel wakelocks" in BBS?
You had wifi on but still huge drain when the screen was off and the phone was asleep, hence I'm thinking wakelock - something is stopping your phone from sleeping. But you need BBS or Wake Lock Detector to pin it down.
They can be a ***** to find, but can be zapped.
Onegio1 said:
Hey guys.
My first post ever, so please bare with me.
I made a big mistake updating to 4.4.2 coz I've had only problems since that. I have a rooted SM-N9005 with a Danish carrier. I have read and read and read for at fix, but can't seem. to find on. . My problem is this.. I can have a fully charged battery, unplug the phone and can, by using the power button, turn the phone off and on again. BUT if I pull the battery out and insert it again after 10 sec, then the phone doesn't turn on. It only turns if it gets the power cord in again. That's the first problem.
The second on is the battery drain. I have done a dalvik clean, cache partition clean, factory reset, soft reset, hard reset, uinstalled pretty much every app that I have... nothing helps. I even bought a new battery.
Can you guys help me or guide me in the right direction on what to do??
Thank you in advance
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Go to Settings-wifi-advance until scanning always available
Hey Jdomadia
Pretty much everything is off.. data . GPS.. Bluetooth and so on.. I'm still wondering if my problem is due to the power button issue that I'm having
Hi Bro i had the same problem the source of it is the developper option just desable them from settings and every thing will be normal again i hope that works for you too
Hey Abdel310
That never cross my mind. Better Google how to disable them once I have enabled them. Bro, I tried everything so I'm gonna try this straight away!!
Just did it, and man if that helps I'll be the happiest camper you'll ever see
i had the same problem i left my phone fully charged and i go to sleep and at the morning i found it off and 0 % battery and no apps runnig just try it and full charg it and it will not drain battery at lest in the sleep mode
Sadly disabling the developer option didn't fix the problem..
it still drain battery in sleep mode ?
the latest screen shots from better battery stats. I can't find any partial wake lock that seems to cause the drain
It's starting to sound more like a malfunctioning battery itself. Especially considering your first issue.
Have you tried a different battery?
Also try it without the SIMcard. A malfunctioning SIM can also cause these issues. (Happened to me back on 4.3. Drained 12%/h, not a single wakelock and 98% deep sleep. No SIM, no drain. New SIM fixed it.)
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk 2
So here is the latest update.. I found out that even when the phone is off, like shut down the phone drains the battery. had to phone to a complete charge, shut off the phone and left it alone.. during the night the battery was drained... and it's a brand new battery
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So here is the latest update.. I found out that even when the phone is off, like shut down the phone drains the battery. had to phone to a complete charge, shut off the phone and left it alone.. during the night the battery was drained... and it's a brand new battery
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If you can get your hands on another battery, just to test, try that (could be you bought a bummer battery) Do you have any friends with Note 3 you can swap batteries with just to see what it does?
Hey Burtcom
tanks for the reply. I can't believe that it's the battery, without knowing for sure. I'm still wondering if my problem is due to the power button issue.. as I mentioned, if I remove a fully charged battery from the phone and reinsert it, then the phone won't turn on. it will only turn on with a power cord.
Now my phone drains the battery even when the phone is off.. like completely turn off.
Howdy, everyone!
I have a problem with my G935F: the battery percentage stays stuck while the device is on, it gets updated on reboot but then won't change. If I connect the phone to the charger the icon in the status bar reflects that but the charge level still won't update until the next reboot.
Battery life is great and charging while the phone is off shows the correct percentage throughout, which makes me believe this is not a problem with the battery.
The phone is rooted and I'm on stock 6.0.1. I've already tried multiple full wipes and flashing several versions of the stock rom (including Nougat) but the problem persists. I've also tried clearing the cache and the dalvik cache to no avail.
Do you have any ideas about what the problem might be or what steps I may take to try and fix it? I'd like to rule out all possibilities before dishing out €50 to have the battery replaced!
Maybe you have an app that's interfering with the reported battery level. Does the battery indicator update properly when you boot the phone into safe mode?
Unfortunately, no.
No ideas?
Unfortunately the battery level is still incorrect even when the phone is booted in Safe Mode. However it is correct when the phone is charged while turned off and the battery life is normal, which makes me believe it's not a hardware problem...
Hey guys sorry to bump old thread , but found this thread and its good to not always make new threads Well, i also suffer some heating issues but recently my battery percentage stuck at 82% while i was charging with hotspot active , i dont know why it got stuck , but when i replugged the jack in usb port , it continues but after sometime stucks again at 84% , i cleared cache partition but its still the same. But if i turn off the phone and charge, it will proceed to 100% , so the only changes that i made in system are enabling developer options and installing nova launcher and xwidgets app , phone is not rooted and completely stock. Any hints guys ?